In our recent ruminations, we incessantly reprise the painfully empirical questions: What has happened to “America the Beautiful?” to the sacred experiment of the venerated Founders Fathers in their radical creation of a Polity ” By and for the people?” What happened to “One Man, One Vote?,” to the prudent protection against abuse afforded by the wise architecture of “Separation of Powers” with its dynamic “Checks and Balances” ? to “Equality under the Law?”; indeed, to the assurance of the ultimate endurance of the American traditional way of life? The contemplative, mainstream American citizen, cognitively aware of the eternal vulnerability of his Democratic Republic suddenly finds himself in the nightmarish reality of its imminent existential peril.
Donald Trump’s public declaration to be a “Dictator for one day, ” may have been the singular occasion of truthfulness in his innate, characterological serial mendacity, yet it empirically constituted a tactically temporal understatement. His admiration of autocratic tyrants like Putin, Viktor Orban, and Kim Jong Un, was unashamedly proclaimed on countless occasions, as was his empirical contempt for the American Constitution and Rule of Law. Donald Trump’s success in two Presidential elections was essentially founded on the votes of a large and toxic melange of populist voters with systemic grievances and, notably, without adequate education, added to polluting industrialists who pathologically extol profit above human and planetary health together, with the contextual support, monetarily and otherwise of Russia’s Vladamir Putin.
It was the popularized, intimate “bromance” between the neuroticly needy egoist, Donald J. Trump and the cunning Vladimir Putin (the latter, the sworn enemy of the American Nation and the peace-loving Nations of NATO)that had its honeymoon in the present transmogrification of our unique Democratic Republic to its current deplorable condition in which the tenets of democracy and personal liberty are potentially and tragically at risk. To the neurotic delight of our toxic and egoistic Chief of state, the desired acquisition of unlimited power and riches is predictably attainable, by the replication of Putin’s demonstrated authoritarian tyranny. As to these attainments, Donald J. Trump is systemically amenable, in pronounced contrast to his distaste for unregulated, enlightened democracy and liberty.
Trump adhered to Putin’s guidebook for authoritarian rule, by initially eschewing the societally fundamental concept of truthful facts for the more personally favorable. “alternate facts,'” attacked the institutional news media, especially the newspapers, derogated the Constitution, and where relevantly useful, sabotaged the Nation’s system of laws, meddled in its definitional political elections to the extreme point of sponsoring an insurrection against his own government. Like Putin, he has managed to escape appropriate jeopardy for his plethora of criminal acts.
In the quid-pro-quo of the mutual exchange of treasonous turpitude, Trump eagerly succumbed to Putin’s example as an eager student of the political science of his said mentor, by his consistent refutation of the constitutional tri-partite government; and substitution of the Putinesque-style rule by autocratic tyrant with the loyal support of a horde of intimidated, profoundly rich oligarchs.
Trump’s large group of intimidated billionaire oligarchs includes Jeff Bezos and Rudolph Murdoch, resulting in his notable reduction of personal newspaper criticism. The oligarch du jour, however, is the autistic savant, Elon Musk, who, as Trump’s irregular and unconstitutional confederate, in governance,.has taken the wrecking ball to many legislatively established and vitally needed federal agencies and departments, as “wasteful”; without the benefit of a scintilla of relevant factual support, to increase his, autocratic ubiquitous power.
Such a dystopic, bizarre caricature of the American Government, by contrast, does present an accurately rendered portrait of Putin’s corrupt and unprincipled rule. It has no valid context in the humanistic and liberating American scenario and must be eliminated by the informed, citizen-voter, There is no conceivable plot of real estate in democratic Washington for the perverse establishment of an ersatz Kremlin.
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