It took but a few brief moments of thought to select the above title, as our contextual metaphor for this writing; the alternate possibility was “Nightmare.” The latter denotes an unpleasant dream from which one quickly awakens. The “Fun House”. or “Carnival Mirror”, are experienced and endure in our conscious awareness. We would make a second note concerning this Franz Kafka-, Lewis Carroll- like nuanced writing, viz., we will refrain from comment and leave the reactive thoughts and emotions to the reader. Among the skewed and dystopic images, we observe the following phenomena as we peer into the mirror at the extant American Presidency:
(1) A scenario in which 1,500 criminals have been found guilty of violent criminal acts, some caes, homicide, by jury trial or guilty plea, now freed by the pardon, of a Chief Executive who, notably, initiated and sponsored the relevant criminal behavior,
(2) The dystopic criminal prosecution of the government officials who dutifully participated in the arrest and conviction of the above-referenced criminals,
(3) A Chief Executive who takes action to defund government agencies in spite despite of the constitutional provision to the effect that only Congress can do so,
(4) A President, elected by the American people who acts to deprive his said supporters of needed governmental assistance, social security benefits, and health insurance and to eliminate the National Institute of Health and other disease-fighting research entities,
(5) A President, with the unorthodox assistance of a bizarre billionaire civilian (the richest man in the World) who has undertaken to eliminate USAID, the Nation’s humanistic agency, furnishing food and medicine to the World’s most needy nations,
(7) A delusional Chief Executive who believes that he can amend the United States Constitution (viz., Art. 14) by the delusional, monarchial use of his black, felt-tipped “Sharpee,”
(8) A deranged President who has officially declared his deranged intention to make the Nation of Canada, our 51st State, annex Greenland and “rename” the Gulf of Mexico “The Gulf of America,”
(9) A President who before he was elected to office, has stolen and refused to return government secret documents and hid them in his Florida Resort’s public bathroom,
(10) A sitting President who has been legally adjudged guilty of thirty-four felonies and indicted for many additional, unrelated criminal acts,
(11) A President who maintains social liaison with our enemies and made enemies of our historical allies; who opposes NATO and assistance to beleaguered Ukraine, attacked by his bromate Vladimir Putin; and a professed admirer of the tyrannical rulers of China, North Korea, and Hungary,
(12) A person, characterized by serial mendacity, who subjectively substitutes “alternate reality” for truthful facts, provides tactical fodder for the horde of conspiracy wonks and derogates the objective and legitimate media,
(13) An individual persona diagnosable as a singulsarly egoistic. orange-haired, insular-oriented and bigoted, whose transactional world is limited to losers and winners;” and, shamefully considers fallen young American soldiers “losers” (“What’s in it for them?”).
Continued attention to the current iteration of the Presidential Carnival Mirror, will undoubtedly reveal other distortions, but, unfortunately, we have grown tired and rather nauseous from so much psychedelic reality.
-p.
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