We may not be singular in our experienced-based opinion that human character and persona may be demonstrated and evaluated by the way one treats his pet animals. A dog or cat owner who lovingly cares for his coveted little friend is predictably, a caring and empathic person. Contrariwise, a pet owner who evinces cruelty or negligence to his dependent animal charge, is to be wisely avoided. Based upon decades of observation, we would hazard the presumption that our declaration is universal.
Our view of contemporary American society whose traditional aspiration is democratically fair, empathic, and reliably observant of the moral compass, has nonetheless, morphed into a contrasting, coarser, self-interested and populist influenced entity. We have observed a declining interest in personal development, aspiration for self- fulfillment and mature understanding of the inner self, and a prevalent interest in electronic convenience, demonstrated financial success, and ephemeral personal diversion. In our often expressed view, this disappointing condition is attributable to the exponential increase in digital communication in lieu of personally salubrious human interaction in person or by telephone, the notable decline in personal agency formally derived from an inner sense of capability, voluntarily sacrificed in favor of mundane and facile computer utilization, the decline in the recognition of the assurance of familiar personal nuance and interactively confirmed self-image resulting in the decline in critical self-evaluation and self-affirming maintenance of humanistic mind-set.
Notwithstanding the above declaration, certain foundational principles have survived such insensitive coarsening and objectivizing of society since, the existential institution of society, itself, would be undermined and ultimately, disappear. Perhaps one of the most fundamental, surviving principles is that of the intrinsic value of life itself; a close second, in our view, is a rare, but empirically, surviving modicum of situational humanism.
The advent of former President, Donald J. Trump together with his cult of retrograde MAGA followers has observably exacerbated a formerly gradual societal decline in metaphysical societal values such as basic moral compass, transactional assumptions of objective truth and empathic humanistic policies. His one term in office had demonstrated a singularly rare criminal and malodorous inclination, never before so rewarded with unlimited and universal power. The mainstream American citizen is accordingly terrified by the prospect of another term of autocratic and corrupt Presidency of that nominee, notwithstanding which fear, it appears that a number of his retrograde followers are in avid competition to share his future ticket as Vice-Presidential candidate.
One such presumed aspirant, notably occupying the (thematic) role of protagonist in this writing, is Congresswoman Kristi Noem, of South Dakota. In our view, Noem (i.e., “No empathy?”) has irrefutably demonstrated that she has attained the zenith of malevolent suitability as a running mate for Trump.
It would not seem especially revelatory to relate the specific political views of our protagonist, other than to declare that she has used her Congressional seat to vote fully in accord with the Trump –MAGA program; inclusive of the perverse policies of anti-immigration, protectionism, denialism, and their entire anti-democratic menu of atavistic civil rights and anti-regulation policies. The absence of such contextual necessity resides in the fact of her recently expressed, heartless pride in having revealingly and boasted of having committed certain notably horrendous acts of telling sadism and thereafter choosing to recount such shameful incidents in a published book she authored.
In “Memoirs,” the publically distributed book, authored by our thematic miscreant, she unemotionally (proudly?) writes of killing her young puppy, because she was impatient with his disappointing progress in learning to be a partridge hunting dog and further, on the same day, shooting a family-owned goat because he “smelled.” Such acts of cruelty, alone, are descriptively definitional and, like a metastasizing cancer, were toxically exacerbated by her diagnosable recounting of the same in her book.
If her intention in such public proclamation of her atrociously cruel acts of animal murder was tactically intended for the approval of the fascistic ears of Donald Trump, she might, conceivably, be successful (with the caveat that Donald Trump is not known to be a reader). Was she possibly attempting to advise the Orange Monomaniac, that “she” would have had the perverse audacity and loyalty to have hung Vice-President Pence?
In any event, Ms. Noam demonstrated that she, acceptably, possesses a similar pathological inclination to that of the modern-day, Presidential Adolph Eichmann-like, Stephen Miller, Presidential Advisor to the former President Trump and the author and facilitator of the inhuman practice of separating babies and young children of immigrants from their parents, “in order to discourage immigration.” It may be the case that, as empirically demonstrated, psychopathology is a resume “must” for any potentially possible member of a Trump Cabinet.
It would seem rationally appropriate to eliminate any possible vestigial thought of attribution of “human” status to any person capable of killing puppies (and goats), and to analogically according to them full Neo- Nazi status to their boasts about it.
*[Title derived from the CBS series starring Angela Lansbury]
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