The highly venerated Hebrew Rabbi, Hillel, famously declared: “If I am not for myself, who will be? If I am only for myself, what am I, and if not now, when?
The renowned, classic Persian poet, Rumi, similarly, in his aesthetic metaphysical statement: “You are not a mere drop in the vast Ocean. You are the vast Ocean in a drop.” Thus, also affirming the primal significance of the individual.
Mainstream American citizens have been obliged by an abundance of inarguably evident warning signs to, affirmatively, open their eyes to the alarming similarities between the would-be autocrat, Donald Trump, next November’s candidate for re-election to the American Presidency, and the former Nazi dictator, Adolph Hitler, as well as the contemporary tyrants, Vladimir Putin, Li Jim Ping, Victor Orban, and Kim Jong-un. Augmenting the empirically, justified fear and predictable danger, are his express and unashamed, public statements of his intention to be a dictator.
Donald Trump has been successful, for enigmatic reasons, lost in the impenetrable mists of irrationality, in installing himself, by manipulation and tactical strategies, as the messianic leader of a large horde of populist sycophants (cult members), detached from the traditional American society.
The perceived, impact of the voting power of such a large underbelly of the Nation, under the sway of the orange demagogic “snake oil” salesman, has cowed into submission many public officials and government officeholders. To add more firewood to the extant conflagration are his public statements of intention, to be a dictator, to “seek retribution against his political enemies,” to stop the flow of immigrant “animals” and to halt the “poisoning of our blood,” the latter, reminiscent of the hateful statements of Adolph Hitler and existentially terrifying.
To further (assuming, it is necessary) demonstrate the mortal danger to our American Democracy, is the politically inspired impotence of the Nation’s foundational tri-partite architecture, constitutionally created to ensure democracy by exercising its established supervisory duty of “checks and balances.” Such transmogrifying effects have rendered our House of Representatives, the entire Republican Party, and most disappointingly, the Nation’s Supreme Court, politically corruptible or functionally impotent.
The profound nature of the undemocratic quagmire in which our Nation finds itself deeply mired existentially makes incumbent that the responsibility for the restoration of its status as the historical avatar of democratic rule, societal propriety, and human justice, upon our dedicated and enlightened citizens. The capacity of dedicated and enlightened, individual citizens of a Nation, when called upon, to peaceably and effectively restore justice and societal propriety has been historically demonstrated.
Irrespective of one’s nuanced political inclination, the coming Presidential election will exigently concern, notably, less the traditional choice of a perceived better candidate, but rather and more impactful, who the candidate isn’t. An autocrat who has once before sought to eliminate the constitution and the moral rule of law, given the opportunity presented by a second term, would predictably eradicate our traditionally American way of life.
Unlike the batting regimen in baseball, upon the delivery of such a second strike (i.e., a Trump second term of office) the Nation (democracy) is tragically, and helplessly, “out.”
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