Our nuanced use of the contemporaneous phrase, “Climate Change,” has no relation to the subject of the Planet’s extant meteorological challenges. We have chosen to exploit the expression for its popularity, but, in an entirely different context, viz., to signify the traditional American’s current all-pervading mood or general state of mind.
The exponential increase in support and power garnered by the populist cult of the malevolent persona of Donald J. Trump (see earlier writings) nightmarishly led to the virtual surrender to him of the Republican Party, and the moral disintegration of SCOTUS; the latter,resulting in itss atavistic, religious banning of abortion and other personal rights as well as a public revelation of its previously undisclosed corruption, the functional immasculation of the House of Representatives, the empowerment of the right-wing (MGA) interference with the American voting franchise, to Trump’s conspiritorial befriending of Putin and the Nation’s other autocratic enemies, the Trump sponsored insurrection, the latter’s denigration of truth and the promotion of divisiveness and bigotry, book banning, paranoid conspiracy ideations, editing of the scope of education and general denigration of enlightenment, promotion of xenophobia, increase in guns and gun violence, particularly against minority citizens and schoolchildren, uncontrollable due to the extant, NRA-MAGA partnership, the shocking MAGA reprise of hateful and propagandic Nazi slogans, such as “Blood and Soil,” and Pollution of Blood,” Trump’s declared intention, if elected, to be a dictator, amount to an unmistakabke reprise of the horrific nightmare of Adolph Hitler’s 1933 Munich Germany.
The described events, ineluctably, and understandably, led the traditional American citizen to an overriding sense of foreboding of inevitable gloom; a sense of hapless tragedy accompanied by a felt, frustrating inability to arrest the exponential downward tumble to fascism.
A much-needed ray of hope, fortuitously arrived to disturb the apparent impenetrable darkness of despair, upon Joseph Biden’s unselfish and patriotic act of stepping down as the incumbent Presidential candidate and the selection of his younger, more energetic, dramatically persuasive, Vice-President, Kamala Hattis. The ray of light grew yet brighter, seemingly dispelling the desperate-former gloom of citizen despondency, with her cogent selection of Minnesota Governor, Tim Waltz, as her candidate for the Vice-Presidency. Like Harris, Walz has popular appeal, and as necessary in Presidential politics, a compelling and confident voice, positively redolent of mid-western good sense, candor, and unmistakeable humanism. The ensuing veritable, National change of climate, to the historic public optimism and confidence in the endurance of our unique Republican Democracy, in the face of the “jackboots” MAGA-TRUMP authoritarian tactics, is now publically evident, and empirically undeniable.
We celebrate the return of a virtually palpable confidence in victory on behalf of America and its traditional, bedrock values.
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