Residents of the North American Continent have reportedly, have been experiencing an ever-increasing ground rumbling sound, accompanied by a palpable feeling of shift, similar to that experienced in an earthquake.. Geologists explain that such phenomenon,” the aftershock,” dynamically functions as a physical adjustment necessitated by a previous shift in the Earth’s massive tectonic plates.
The Nation, analogically, is presently experiencing a dynamic “aftershock” responsive to the recent rightward shift from the foundations of its traditional democratic character, effected by the current Presidential administration. The latter change in direction constitutes a notably substantial shift in the deep, stable bedrock of our two hundred and forty-year-old Democratic Republic.
It may be contextually observed that people who normally reside in repressive autocracies are pragmatically submissive and resignedly passive to mundane tyranny; however, once individuals have traditionally accommodated themselves to the sweet fruits of civil freedom and the franchise of liberty, they become systemically resistant to tyrannical incursion into their personal lives.
The current abatement of traditional liberty, expression, and free choice, brought about by the autocratic Trump administration, dynamically serves to catalyze its own uiltimate rejection by a people defining their traditional mode of living, in the enjoyment of the franchise of liberty; it has had the analogous impact of a deep, geological seismic event, shifting the democratic-oriented tectonic plates, underpinning our sxystemi way of life and predictably resulting in, responsive public aftershock.
Donald Trump’s ov erarching self-interested predilection, has, by now, been plainly revealed to the Nation as antithetical to good democratic governance and contrastingly revelatory of his neurotic insatiable aspiration to be seen as a “winner” ( his words) at the cost of the interests of the Nation. domestically and internationally, and that of its citizens.
The Trump administration’s reductionist mentality and undemocratic policies have led to ubiquitous policies of autocratic rule, including the diminution of national military security, the undermining of the economy by the irresponsible imposition of tariffs, the major reduction of existential health research, the banishment and foreign incarceration of hundreds of foreign residents,without due process of law, the fascist-style program of “retribution” against political opponents, an all-pervasive rejection of the tenets of the U.S. Constitution and the societally estabkished Rule of Law, an atavistically imperial desire for the aggrandizement of foreigh sovereign nations, the perverse admiration and passionate romance with foreign dictators, the elimination of vital federal civil service inclusive of regulatory agencies designated to protect the health and safety of the Nation, interference with and hobbling of University and primary educational well as medical and scientific research, the absence of programmatic and equitable reform to the tax code, the elimination of all inspectors general, the promotion of fossil fuels which despoil the environment and cause catastrophic global warming and, in general respect for truth and the aspiration to universal of fairness and equity.
Such “aftershock” reactions have been plainly observed in responsively angry, citizen town meetings, the growing resistance by Universities to further submit to Trump’s autocratic demands, the ubiquitious loud well attended public protests, expressing outrage directed at Trump’s arbitrary and self-serving by-passing of the Nation’s foundational system of law and justice, and the economic bedlam created by Donald Trump’s impulsive and reductionist predeliction for tariffs and satavistic economic policies, the latter’s resulting in higher prices and inflation, despite Trump’s, snake oil campaign representations to the contrary.
It is empirically conceivable, given the egregious and bizarre nature of the Trump administration’s emulation of the Putin-Orbanesque style of autocratic governance, that the seismic meter will uniquely demonstrate a notably higher register attributable to the aftershock than the originating shift of tectonic plates, itself.
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