The Greek classic playwright, Aeschylus, consistently articulated the theme, “Wisdom through Suffering,” in his venerable theater works. Said theme, in its ultimate empirical wisdom, has notable resonance in these contemporary times of despair and angst, consequential to the dystopic state of our formerly admirable Democratic Republic.
Analogous to Man’s health, the American body politic, salubriously affording personal liberty and freedom of expression, is empirically vulnerable, mandating diligent and dedicated nurturance; notably, in a Nation affording the universal right to vote, and, worrisomely incorporating a sizeable population of inadequately educated and poorly informed citizens rendering the Republic’s successful operation and endurance of policies, “by and for the people,” an eternal challenge.
Such challenge, as ubiquitously evidenced in American history in times of political stress, such as the Civil War and Restoration Eras, the Great Depression of 1929, and the roiling national opposition during the period of the Vietnam War, has been regrettably reprised by the populist elevation to ther Oval Office of Donald J. Trump, a demonstrated egocentric, incompetent, charlatan and declared autocrat.
The Trump Presidential Administration has been singular in its unprincipled rejection of the Constitution and the rule of law, abrogation of citizen rights, its policy of “Retribution” against all perceived political opponents, shameless deletion of programs of compassionate health and financial assistance to citizens and needy nations. elimination of agencies for health research, wrongful control over Universities and other salutary institutions of learning, his autocratic castigation of the established media, summary arrest of immigrants, and their summary banishment to foreign torture jails entirely without due process, pardoning of seditious insurrectionists loyal to him, while ubiquitously denying citizens’ rights assured by the constitution, inclusive of interference with the vote, and, additionally, shamefully enriching himself and his family, in violation of the Constitutional “Emolument Clause” and the high office’s implicit and officially sworn fiduciary duty.
We are obliged to relate that our historically admirable Democratic Republic has, under the errant tutelage of the Trump Administration, in the space of a short few months, been tactically transmogrified into a dystopic nightmare, resulting in prevalent feelings of despair and confusion among traditional American citizens. The latter tragic occurrence painfully anticipates four long years of predictable shame and tyranny, resulting from such cancerous attack upon the Nation’s body politic as relevantly equivalent, in effect, to the Constitutional proscription against “cruel and unusual punishment” and the opportunity to surgically excise such cancerous incursion from the American body politic, more than an additional three long years of the Nation’s predictably agonizing future.
We would offer in thematic mitigation to this “Devil’s Island” nightmare, possibly, a measure of material benefit from the experience of such painful and extended angst. We suggest that the same may be garnered from the aforementioned, ancient (5th Century) Greek tragedian, Aeschylus, the proponent of the universal theme of “wisdom through suffering.”
It is our belief and expectation that the evil orange cloud presently suffocating our historically venerable Democratic Republic will lift, and the relieved citizenry will have beneficially learned from its painful experience to remain more actively vigilant and affirmatively protective of our Democratic Republic’s precious and ever-vulnerable endurance.
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