Mainstream American citizens, by now, doubtlessly have concluded that the current Presidential Administration is far from acceptable based upon its demonstrated incapability, lack of moral responsibility, and convenient repudiation of the Nation’s Constitution and rule of law. While, concededly, American history reveals the Republic’s experience of other disreputable Presidential Administrations, none of such comparable historical miscreants exhibited an effective regression of the dynamic process of Man’s political and social development.
President Andrew Johnson was impeached for the wrongful dismissal of a prominent member of his Cabinet and certain other offenses, Andrew Jackson is revealed to be shamefully guilty of “racial cleansing of indigenous Americans, Richard Nixon had his celebrated, “Watergate,” however, notably, no previous errant Chief Executive has chosen to openly violate established legal and humanistic societal standards other than Donald Trump; in his assertion of unrestrained power, analogous to an absolute Euroopean Monarch or an intimidating Chieftain of cowed Stone Age cave dwellers.
The beneficial development and pragmatic endurance of human society are existentially dependent upon Man’s acceptance of, and compliance with, what Locke and Rousseau termed “The Social Compact” (“Contract”). The theory suggests that societies are formed under an implicit agreement in which individuals mutually surrender certain freedoms in exchange for communal security and safety. It contextually implies that governance is attained by an election conducted in compliance with such accepted standards of behavior.
Unfortunately, modern history demonstrates a (mercifully, small) genre of homo sapiens who elect not to, or are not able to join as a party to the social compact and perceive themselves as outside its communally accepted criteria regarding acceptable behavior; these include criminal and other dignosable psychopaths, and delusionally egocentric neurotics; the latter, empirically inclusive of the persona of dictatorial autocrats ( and ” would be” dictatorial autocrats).
We have amply commented on Donald Trump’s nuanced standards of acceptable behavior, the latter, resulting in numerous criminal adjudications, outstanding indictments, systemic rejection of factual truth, in favor of the subjective promotion of “alternate Facts,” denigration of the constitution and rule of law, opposition to education and human advancement, unrestrained violation of theEmolument Clause” to illegally garner personal enrichment, payment of “hush money” to prostitutes, incitement of insurrection, criminally premised upon his deciertful and un-American denial of the results of a valid election; followed by his pardon of such insurrectionists, his repeated treasonous liaison with the leaders of the Nation’s defined enemies, attempts to weaken NATO, purloining of top secret documents, attack on America’s elite Universities and on education itself, evident bigotry and support of un-American White Christian Militias, and his opposition to all programs of compassionate capitalism, voz., social security, disability, and Medicaid ; we might go on, ad infinitum and ad nauseum.
The contextual message of this writing is intended to proffer a rather simple, but, profoundly impactful, explanation of the deplorable, morally offensive behavior of Donald J. Trump, regarding such ubiquitous, offensive and immoral behavior. Our message is that he is neurotically egocentric and thus emotionally unable to be a party to any humanistic societal contract, but rather, singularly and determinately, resides in his perceptive bubble; neurotically insulated from established societal and moral propriety.
Those who would, nonetheless, support the leadership of Donald J. Trump might well be reminded that they are dealing with a complete stranger to the established societal standards of decency and moral accommodation, implicitly subscribed to by its members. The nature and extent of expectations of his singular behavior and bizarre proclamations of governmental policy are thus as perversely predictable as an infestation of a nest of subterranean termites on fundamentally important wooden house supports.
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