We cannot equate a preferable or more effective analogy applicable to the revelation of using misleading and ubiquitously accepted concepts to disguise or lend acceptability to pernicious policies or programs, than the thematic mirror. The offending memes, chosen below represent, to our perception, the most egregious examples of such a copious verbal agitprop, The deceit employed to mislead the mainstream citizen by being cynically disguised in traditionally acceptable lexicon is no less than deceitful and inarguably fraudulent. Our fictional magic mirror reliably reflects the reconstructed contextual revelation of the underlying pernicious motivation, adorned in deceptively camouflaged parlance to disguise their intrinsic unacceptability.
We have chosen to cite and briefly discuss our perception of the most egregious examples of such tactical misleading, sanitized expressions:
“MANIFEST DESTINY”
The historically propagandic theory of “Manifest Destiny,” recited America’s “Diety-inspired duty” (in the Biblical Year 1845 A.D.), to expand America’s borders across the entire width of the North American continent. This impactive religiously- nationalistic meme, as the reflected and reconstructed mirror clearly reveals, was a propagandist rationalization for the morally unjustifiable displacement of Indigenous and other non-European peaceful occupants from the present American territories, employing the tenacious pursuit of bloody and immoral aggression across the width of continental North America. The enunciated acceptability of such an ambition was, as repeatedly shown throughout history, ( and reflected in the mirror) rationalized and approved by religious zeal, combined with the atavistic taint of xenophobia.
“RIGHT TO LIFE”
Our faithful, truth-reconstructing mirror reveals that the wording of this programmatic title, albeit expressed in humanistic and acceptably moral parlance, is, in empirical reality, a deceitful political misstatement whose demonstrated motivation is control, religious, and secular, and revealingly, not “life.” The life” purportedly protected, by their dogmatic (and, on occasion, homicidal) opposition to the natural and private right of a woman to elect abortion is dogmatically and morally restricted (solely) to the unborn fetus. With the aid of Donald Trump’s appointment of “pro-life,” unprincipled Justices to the U.S. Supreme Court, abortion has been judicially determined to be criminal, albeit, after upwards of five decades of legal approval, with the empirically demonstrated consequences of tragic, life-threatening and mortal results. Their deceit is further illustrated (reflected) in their opposition to governmental assistance to the needy child after the fetus is born, their general support of the cruel and atavistic State practice of capital punishment, and concomitant ardent support of gun ownership.
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“MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN’ (MAGA)
The announced propagandic message of the infamous Donald J. Trump, and its shameful acceptance by the huge undereducated, poorly informed, and grievance-laden American populists, caused our fictional hand-held appliance to flash and go briefly dark, with outrage. and mechanical apoplexy. Like its previous exposure to the concept known as “Manifest Destiny,” our fictitious mirror came precariously close to burnout. After some startling light-laden flashes, it was systematically enabled to return to its former reflective usefulness.
The manipulatively false phrase ends with the notable word “again.” It is not necessary to employ the truthful mirror to observe that the word, “again,” implies that the American Nation was, at some time in its past,. great; and, notably, without Donald J. Trump. With his limited understanding of history, indeed, of any subject outside of the self- constricted, bubble of his neurotic egocentrism, one may wonder as to which period in American history he was alluding to. In actuality, knowing Trump, he systemically possesses a snake oil can full of demagogic propaganda but no such reminiscent period,
The mirror, as well as the public media, reflects the grim reality that the orange- hair -publically declared tyrant, notably, before his inauguration, has telescopically reflected in his avowed delivery of renewed American greatness, the designation of his proposed cabinet, consisting of incompetent, Trump acolytes rather than capable and highly principled officials. He has indicated that he will appoint as his Attorney General, an incompetent, unprincipled scoundrel, publicly identified as a perpetrator of sex crimes, including sex trafficking and statutory rape, a Secretary of Defense, (Armed forces, Pentagon, etc.) a loyal Fox News acolyte with bodily tattoos representing views which are expressly Christian White Supreicist, an Intelligence Secretary (CIA, etc.) with no experience who has publically demonstrated her friendship with Russia’s Putin, an “Immigration Czar,” who has pledged the deportation of millions of American immigrants, and others, uniformly incompetent, dangerous to the Nation but solely qualified by their cultish loyalty to Trump,.
The faithful mirror reflects four years of Trump’s past efforts toward the displacement of the uniquely great, constitutionally limited, law-observing democratic Nation by a would-be Emporer, unrestricted by law or conceptual moral compass., It reveals that the deceptive phrase, Make America Great Again,” euphemistically translates to ” Transmogrify Trump to the role of Roman Emporer Nero.
Historical experience teaches thoughtful individuals to wisely scrutinize publically attractive slogans and represented causes.
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