Prospective house purchasers will procure a professional termite search to ensure the structural integrity of the relevant property. An infestation of termites is not easily discernible by the layman until their insidious presence has wreaked substantial and visible damage to a building’s wooden support structure. Our readings of modern history reveal tragic instances of democratic nations that have undergone destruction due to analogously insidious undermining..
As we perceive it, the opening salvo in the termite-style program to undermine democracy was delivered at the advent of Trump’s first campaign and term of Presidency by his programmatic denial of “factual truth,” disparagement of the nation’s media, and the tactical exacerbation of divisiveness between identifiable groups of eternally discontented citizens. Trump’s current strategy, is tactically mentored by a perverse team of malefactors, led by Steve Bannon, Rudy Guilliani, Roger Stone, and Paul Manaford, principally directed to the large populist infestation of termite-like despoilers of America’s Republican Democracy.
The termite damage for a time, encroached on our Nation’s secure democracy, due to the influence of Trump and his advisors but experienced a slowdown during the next four years of Biden’s Presidency. The defeated, neurotically disappointed, Donald Trump, in aid of his ideation of authoritarian takeover, failed in his atavistic attempt at revolution and so the program of destruction was limited to Trump’s perverse demagoguery, aimed at the nation’s significant pollution of grievance-laden,” populist citizens,”
Trump was unexpectedly elected for a second term (by his eternally aggrieved, huge MAGA horde) in the next (surprising) election and the termite advocates sought to make up for lost time in their planned infection of the structural supports of the Nation’s democracy. Employing tactics, historically successful in such enterprises, they promoted divisiveness, political polarity, and opposition to immigration; unfortunately and unhappily aided, by two experiential objective causes of the weakening of the structural foundations of democracy’s edifice, viz., consumer economic stress and controversial involvement in foreign matters.
Trump, mentored by his despicable group of insidious termite-like advisory mentors has recently announced a patently outrageous and democracy-weakening, “Mad Hatter” Presidential Cabinet as the nation’s Attorney General, [FBI, ATF, the Nations many federal district attorneys] the known criminal, (drugs, female trafficking) Matt Gaetz, presently under an ethics investigation, And JFK, Jr, adamant anti-vaccine, anti-medicine, conspiracy lunatic who deposited a dead bear in New York’s Central Park and famously boasts a worm in his brain, as Secretary of Health and Human Services (NIH, FDA, HRSA). In our view, these two, tactically selected, candidates will predictably, be rejected, despite the existence of a Republican Senate; but strategically, by such tactical publicized rejection, add corresponding acceptance to such ignominious, anti-democratic termites like Tulsi Gabbard, Putin admirer, and enemy of democracy, as Intelligence Czar, and Pete Heggeth, ardent White Christian Nationalist, sporting copious body tattoos in favor of such despicable dedication, as Secretary of Defense.
The structural integrity of our Democratic Republic is once more imperiled; this time, by insidious termite-like efforts at its structural weakening and ultimate destruction, However, as reliably demonstrated by history, it will, by its systemic dedication to rectitude, rid its structural integrity of its presenting befouling and existential challenge. Despair and sad resignation have never been our Nation’s identifiable characteristics.
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