America celebrates its annual National Holiday, “President’s Day,” perennially, on the third Sunday of February. This, holiday honoring past America’s Presidents was created shortly after the decease of President George Washington. Its annual observance, is in essence, a historical statement of appreciation for Presidential service to the Nation. It is additionally, an articulated statement of fundamental rectitude and of the humanism of the American constitutional ‘s systemic assurance of life, liberty, and equality. The history of much of the World has, indeed. been otherwise, and the Founders of Our Nation succeeded in their experimental creation of a Nation run by a Chief Executive, selected by the People rather than by a hereditary Monarch, and/or an Established Religious Authority
.In our view, the event functionally serves as an enduring declaration that success is empirically possible and enduring in a polity dedicated to being “by and for the people.” The historic, popularly elected Chief Executives, subscribing to that foundational principle of governance are appropriately deserving of such Nationally respectful memory, celebratory gratitude, and beneficial recognition.
We would include as deserving of the highest praise, and historical esteem, such venerable National leaders as George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, Franklyn D. Roosevelt, Lyndon Johnson, and Barack Obama. In empirical contrast, we consider the following past Presidents, by contrast, as rather less deservant of kudos, Andrew Johnson, Andrew Jackson, Herbert Hoover, and George Bush, Jr. President Donald J. Trump, notably, is deservant of separate treatment, as set forth below.
Regarding the category of American Presidents, less deserving of veneration we would choose to cite, cite Andrew Jackson who promulgated the shameful and inhumane “Indian Act,” (“Trail of Tears”), Andrew Johnson, whose wrongful actions during the Reconstruction Period, justly earned him Presidential impeachment and Richard Nixon whose illegal and unAmerican crimes, necessitated his removal and fortuitous pardon. Nevertheless, we have been able to tolerate their inclusion among the honorable past Presidents on the eponymous holiday. Not so with Donald J. Trump, the context of whose singular persona and despicable level of Presidential service, we, thematically request, be appropriately excised from the list of Chief Executives, honored on Presidents’ Day. We will elucidate.
Of our designated category of “less deserving of veneration,” only Trump was and is guilty of undermining the existential features of our Nation’s democracy, its constitution, and its system of laws, perversely including, its definitional existence as a democracy by undermining its vote, together with his unashamed repudiation of societally basic principles of moral behavior. His empirical resume would reveal a disgracefully errant American President, personified by anti-democratic rule, distaste for the societal moral compass, publically demonstrated treasonous behavior, and memorably repeated declarations of intent to ” be a dictator.”
The thoughtless, routine inclusion of Donald J. Trump among America’s Holiday roster of honored past Presidents, would be inappropriate and constitute holiday an effective pollution of the ritual Memorial, honoring America’s Presidential past. His name should be beneficially and responsibly excised from our (democratic) Nation’s roster of venerable or democratically acceptable, holiday-celebrated Chief Executives.
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