We would prefer to write on metaphysical or societal subjects, indeed, on any topic of contemplative interest; however, the endeavor to satisfy such an aspiration, these days, is dynamically analogous to an effort to eat a plate of pasta carbonara on a fast wheeling exercise bicycle or to pick up viscous mercury with a baseball catcher’s mitt.
The temper of the present political scene may be aptly conveyed by the second half of the opening sentence of Charles Dickens’ novel, “Tale of Two Cities: viz., ” it was the worst of times.” A “Code Blue’ emergency is now relevant respecting the present health of our body politic, aan S.O.S. radio signal, to a Mayday” call, from our Ship of State and its Constitutional history, a 911 telephone call, as empirically warranted in the case of an observation of an evidentstroke, regarding the survival of the liberty of our citizens and its inclination toward humanism, and a plea of “Help me! ” for the very endurance of our Democratic Republic.
Until the advent of the metastatically toxic Trump pandemic, we, at plinyblog, castigated all aphoristic assertions of faux wisdom as lazy and reductive. However, we have been painfully disproved at least regarding the old chesnut, “One rotten apple can spoil the barrel.” Despite our Nation’s consistent (anecdotally somewhat flawed) democratic history, beginning on July 4, 1775, the Nation had prospered and, thematically, became an avatar of democratic rule to its global neighbors. Yet, sadly, it took merely 100 days for the “rotten apple,” a/k/a Donald Trump, to infect and metastasize with his egocentric toxin, the entire inventory of comestibles, resident in the previously wholesome larder of the American Nation.
Trump’s egregious acts of immorality and criminal sociopathy are notorious and publicly known. We may have exhausted the readers’ patience with their outraged recitation. Nevertheless, the Nation has alarmingly reached the “inflection point” of its existence and duration, and “code blue” alarms are urgently appropriate, relative to its existence as a democratic republic and consequent avoidance of the spiritual and moral death, the latter, constituting the historically predictable sequelae of the toxic disease of autocratic tyranny.
Donald J. Trump, despite his public declarations of his intent to be a dictator, ran for office, nevertheless, by the democratic process of free election. His successful election enabled him to tactically and perniciously take advantage of the rights appropriately afforded to citizens and other persons protected under the American Constitution, to strategically and perniciously transform the democratic Nation into an autocracy; the usual recipe for incipient dictators.
It is most perturbing that Trump’s MAGA legal team played the melifluous tune of the Constitutional right of “Due Process, as often and as skillfully as a flute sonata by Vivaldi, I’m order to keep him from being ap[propriately incarcerated for his many venal criminal felonies, while, contrastingly, the felonious Trump, programically tramples the Constitution and denies those fundamental properly enjoyed by others, most especially immigrant families.
Like all aspiring dictators, Trump has tactically and falsely created the illusion that the Nation is in the state of a roiling crisis, among other nefarious tactics, by the creation of the false threat to the effect that the American Nation is under attack by invading hordes of dangerous and reprehensible immigrants; regarding whom he has, in Gestapo manner, denied due process in their cruel and arbitrary banishment to foreign torture prisons. Trump’s extreme and arbitrary practice of dictatorial criminal punishment without due process or legal proof of guilt offends the most bedrock principles of the American legal system (regarding others than himself), exemplifies a fatal stereotype of autocratic tyranny.
In Monarchical, self-aggrandizing fashion, Donald Trump has, in addition, inappropriately and illegally (ref.: “Emolument Clause”) misused his executive authority and influence to substantially enrich himself and his personal family by way of questionable bitcoin and “meme” coin transactions and a full plethora of inappropriate enterprises. The American Presidential office is not analogous to an unlimited monarchical franchise to personally accumulate treasure.
The enormity of Trump’s improperly acquired wealth and its shameless criminality are redolent of mafia kingpins as contrasted with elected executive public servants. Such vast and insatiable accumulation of illegal treasure is astonishingly contrasted with Trump’s deprivation of funds to charitable organizations like USAID, which supplies fooid and medicine to needy countries, his attack on Medicaid and social security, monetary withdrawal of financial support for University Education and education in general, elimination of support for NIH, CDC and other vital governmental health research entities, denial of financial support for Public Radio and Television, inhumane elimination of food programs for needy schoolchildren, opposition to veterans’ health benefits and environmental causes.
Donald J. Trump, with the support of his coterie of cultish and self-serving lemming-like p[opulistsycophants, has been perrniciously successful in the space of merely one hundred days, in the transformation of our unique and venerated democracy to an offensive, “Gangster State.”
The citizenry needs to be responsibly awakened to a warning alarm, and our Democratic Republic, on an emergent basis, be redeemed and thereafter, effectively safeguarded.
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