Month: May 2025

The iconic Statue of Liberty, the eternal symbol of welcome, holding aloft her beacon-torch and enhancing the National significance of New York’s East River, is the American Nation’s standing invitation, in Emma Lazarus’s words, ” to all the huddled masses, yearning to be free.” While pragmatically, considerations of economics, security, and humanism are appropriate to maintaining a manageable and fair immigration policy, unhappily, certain supplemental ly contested political issues have caused the subject to be shifted to the politics of the executive branch.

President Donald J. Trump has arbitrarily chosen to employ his executive power to severely limit American immigration, a policy inarguably antithetical to the American humanistic tradition as espoused by Lady Liberty and Ms. Lazarus.

Refugees, fleeing their native countries for fear of political persecution or death, have recently been reviled and programmatically sent back to their country of origin to suffer their dreaded fate by the Trump-MAGA policy founded, perceptibly, upon their reductive, bigoted xenophobia. As we have often stated, America can be appropriately described as a Nation of immigrants and their progeny. It would, inarguably, seem callously selfish for it to maintain a policy that would deny entrance to foreign refugees or, generally, to immigrants seeking a better life.

Donald Trump’s zero-tolerance policy has, in stereotypically fascistic manner, authorized a governmental militia of Gestapo-like (often masked) individuals (“ICE”) to summarily arrest, at homes, church or on the street, foreigners deeme4 suspect of being “illegal” (unregistered) aliens; and, in many cases, splitting up families and deporting individuals to foreign countries (previously remunerated by the Trump administration) for indefinite incarceration and predictable torture, notably, without the due process guaranteed by the Constitution to “all persons.”

Mainstream American citizens have, uniformly, been shocked and frightened by this unprecedented, draconian, un-American policy, and entertain the hope that such outrage will be ultimately and appropriately addressed by the responsible (i.e, non-MAGA appointed) judiciary.

Trump, ( himdself, a convicted criminal and adjudged woman abuser,) availing himself of his characteristic serial mendacity, represents that his motivation is based upon his solicitous desire that “criminals and rapists” be denied entry, for the welfare of our Nation’

The true, pernicious motivation of Trump’s (and MAGA) restrictive grant of the benefits of “refugee status was irrefutably made public by hispublic welcome to dozens of white South African immigrants (“Afrikaners”); which irrefutably uncovers the malign truth of his contrasting restriction against needy immigrants from Sudan, Central America, and Afghanistan. The policy is incriminating proof and admissible evidence that the Trump-Maga motivations regarding immigration are blatantly racial, regardless of their purported claim of protecting the Nation.

It is no less than revolting to recall that it was the minority ruling class of White Afrikaners who persisted in the egregious “Law of Apartheid” in South Africa until 1994.

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We may have missed the mark in our previous presumption that Donald Trump, as a permanent resident of his personal, impenetrable bubble, is, by such bizarre mental confinement, perceptively unaware of the Nation’s Constitution and Rule of Law. He has routinely undermined both, causing Americans to feel less safe. Upon further contemplation, we have come to see that his pernicious actions including, firing vitally needed public servants, dissolving federal agencies, taking taxpayer money from our communities, tactically firing inspector generals, and notably, by his all- pervasive failure to adhere to societal moral and legal mandates, that his motivating dynamic is more accurately described as blatantly and shamelessly, intentional.

Based on his exemplary record of self-serving and bizarre behavior, we, in our previous perception and writings, had ubiquitously described his persona as neurotically incapable of awareness or recognition of the humanistic social contract and, secluded in his singularly impenetrable mental bubble, oblivious of the Nation’s rule of law and its societal standards of propriety,

With appropriate apology, we have come to the alternative, accurate perception of his true repulsive sociopathic persona. Our confident view is that Trump is, in plain fact, demonstrably cognizant of the societal and legal rules of the road, but, in his diagnosably sociopathic arrogance, perceives himself, singularly and imperiously, not bound by such societal strictures. Such an amended understanding as to Trump’s speciously neurotic sense of exclusivity is conceptually consistent with his sociopathic self-image. Stated differently, we have become obliged to assume that in some primitive section of Trump’s brain, there is, in fact, a basic awareness that no society can endure without ubiquitous ground rules; it is simply that the kingly orange haszmat does not see them as personally relevant to or binding on “HIM.”

The following recognizable traits, we understand, are traditionally and diagnosibly concomitant with sociopathy: defining oneself by, an overweening sense of self-importance, a sense of power over others, manipulative prowess, the aspiration for greater power, and the absence of any discernible sense of guilt. The foregoing adjectival description might adequately serve as a final sketch before the traditional painting of the Presidential portrait of Donald Trump.

We can painfully recall an incident when our protagonist rudely and without a trace of sympathy chose to mimic the symptomatically shaking body and voice of a palsied reporter, dutifully questioning him, on public television. The crass billionaire with gold residential bathrooms who, with an empty conscience, strives to cut needed support to starving third world countries and eliminate the empathic programs of governmental empathy, such as FEMA, Social Security, Medicaid, as well as the Nation’s medical research services, merits little ameliorating sympathy.

In past writings, we have proscriptively suggested that as a mandatory prerequisite to their nomination, all aspiring Presidential candidates be responsibly vetted, as an assurance of basic acceptability, characterologically and experientially, to hold the august office of the American Presidency; just as a job interview is universally required to apply for far more mundane employment. We will continue to do so with the ample, additional evidence of the ill-suited present Chief Executive..

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It is our somewhat radical, but sincere view, that, consistent with the universal American principles of “Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness,” Equal Protection of the law, and individual human dignity, in general, the approval of abortion in the “landmark case” of Roe v. Wade, was in reffect, legally superfluous, and its abhorrant reversal, erroneous, and of no fundamental legal import. Our opinion is obviously not in sync with the current understanding of the controversy and the legal impact of the overturn of the famous case.

We have always disagreed with the public perception that Roe v. Wade was the genesis of the woman’s (natural) right to determine highly personal matters in her own life, relevantly, the choice to bear children or not, and that Roe’s overturn disturbs any metaphysically fundamental principles. To our perception, such a publicly accepted view seems legally and logically inconsistent with the Nation’s avowed liberty regarding personal freedoms, constitutionally afforded to American citizens, viz., the overturn of Roe v. Wade, is understood to have led to a perceived proscription against abortion. In our view, this understanding would result in a singular proscription against the citizen’s personal choice of lifestyle, analogous to the elective choice of marriage and/or personal choice of spouse, inarguably, outside the purview of any polity which historically avows individual freedom and liberty.

In our nuanced, but sincere contemplation, Roe v. Wade did not grant, nor is it the source of, the woman’s right to determine the configuration of her own family, but can effectively be understood to have recognized that natural right. Its reversal, presumably, under unconstitutional pressure from the religious right, was not only tragically injudicious and violative of the “Establishment Clause” of the United States Constitution, but constituted an autocratic exercise of tyranny, unbecoming to, and inconsistent with personal freedom espoused by the Founding Fathers; however, it is our belief that it should not be read as denying women the right of abortion.

Our Democratic Republic is now under great pressure, stemming from the autocratic policies of the Trump-MAGA Administration, regarding the latter’s castigation of the Constitution and its Separation of Powers, the denigration of America’s media, the attack against its educational institutions from Grade school through University, the devastation of its health research institutions and federal civil service, the cruel elimination of government programs of assistance such as Social Security and Medicaid, the foolhardy elimination of health and environment protective regulations, the fouling of our traditionally salutary relation with our traditional allies, the despoilation our favorable economy, and a full and foul dumpster of assorted MAGA detritis vitally mandating amelioration by the informed, mainstream citizenry at election time.

It is of existential importance that such a nightmarish, dystopic Presidential holocaust be brought to an end. We optimistically believe that the Nation, having ubiquitously experienced the intense pain of the aberrant Trump Presidency, will administer to it the coup de grace (See Blog # 272, ” THE ANCIENT LESSON”).

However, assuming that our positive prognostication is realized, the Nation’s message of liberty will remain unfulfilled until the Nation, additionally revitalizes the metaphysical understanding that its female citizens are legally vested with the requisite legal assurance relative to their legally implicit personal agency to determine all personal matters of their private anatomy and their personal lives.

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As traditional American citizens, we have been shocked and appalled at the Gestapo-style program of unannounced, summary arrests of peaceful and law-abiding immigrants by the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency (“ICE”) most especially, the denial of constitutional “due Process” guaranteed to all “persons.” Such cruel and un-American practice is fully consistent with the Trump Administration’s right-wing, biased program of prosecution of foreigners; under the zealous administration of an Adolph Eichmann-like psychopath, Steven Miller. We have chosen to remain hopeful such shameful, un-American travesties will soon legally be abated.

Our shock and angst are greatly exacerbated by the disconcerting and dystopic sight of the arresting ICE officers’ practice of wearing black facemasks and thus adding a bizarre Dark Ages Inquisition-esque atmosphere to their shameful violence. It may be noted, historically, that neither the Nazi Gestapo, the Communist KGB, nor the East German Stasi, sported masks in the respective courses of their political malefaction.

Masks, functionally, are objects worn on the face for protection, disguise, theatrical purposes, or religious, ethnic traditions. Notably, the prophylactic use of face masks, recommended by the publicly responsible medical profession, during the COVID pandemic was denigrated by the MAGA- Trump political adherents, who, in their lemming-like cultish worship of the excrable Orange Deity, opposed the wearing of the recommended, health protective masks.

The televised arrests are irrefutably unconstitutional, obscene, and un-American, nevertheless, we are optimistic that such practice of political arrest, with or without face masks and the outrageously unconstitutional denial of due process, will soon be addressed by the judiciary.

Our observational question is an obvious one: If the arrests are legally legitimate law enforcement activities, why is there a necessity to disguise the arresting officer in a black mask? We would be considerably happier if the use of masks were reserved for Halloween and to the Lone Ranger.

And, considering Donald Trump’s recommrndation to keep felons, rapists and criminals out of the country; we are willing to pack his golden suitcase and make a quick telephone call to the airport taxi.

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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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As a prefatory statement, we do not intend to castigate the human inclination to religious or otherworldly beliefs. We consider “faith” a naturally occurring supplement to the innate limitations of human cognition. Its existential utility resides in reconciling the most profound metaphysical mysteries whose origin and nature are beyond the prowess of the mental capabilities as evolved in the homo sapiens. The nuanced style and characteristics of various “belief structures” are usually inherited and taught to the young, becoming a significant ingredient in their cultural upbringing and perceptions.

The sad history of group accepted cultural beliefs at times in Man’s checkered history led to the wrongful prosecution of non-believers (including believers in an alternate style of “faith”), warfare, and unnecessary human tragedy. However, the overzealous evangelistic history of religious faith does not detract from our recognition of the utilitarian dynamic of non-factual belief and its beneficial role in, among other matters, ameliorating the fears of the “unknown.” That the “Sun God” died after the Fall and was resurrected in the Spring was an outcome of Man’s discomfort with the bizarre mystery of seasonal change.

We have elected to overlook the historical record of communal faith relative to its anecdotal need to enforce its belief system upon other human beings. We also recognize the utilitarian benefits of common religious belief in its contribution to the human need for societal and personal identity, and its communal role in softening the ultimate tragedy of death. In sum, we affirmatively recognize the pragmatic service rendered by ” faith belief” in the existence of a universally stable and all-powerful governor of matters beyond Man’s ken.

Nonetheless, we have observed that, in sync with many others who enjoy great intellectual and moral veneration, including: Locke, Descartes, Kant, Leibniz, Hume, Erasmus, Bacon, Hobbes, and Spinoza, that the progress of Mankind, socially, intellectually, and morally is more efficatiously, accutely and justly accomplished by the enlightenment derived from empirical experience as opposed to culturally derived, atasvistic belief in non-factual, superior powers.

Penicillin and the polio vaccine were not discovered by “faith,” nor were the railroad and the airplane products of religious inspiration. The scientific method of inquiry, was the source, as distinguished from non-factual belief in superior, omniscient entities; as in all other discoveries, such as Copernicus and the heliocentric understanding of the Solar System, viz. that the Earth travels around the Sun, and not the other way around. The latter erroneous theory was based on the universal religious belief that “Man” is the “Center of the Universe.” The atom, for better or worse, was not split by religious ritual, but rather per the natural law of physics. Hungry people should be fed, not because it is pleasing to the Deity, but based on the human capability for empathy. People do not go to “heaven” as a reward for good deeds, but enjoy a good conscience in their elder years. Morality is not enforced by punishment in some “afterlife,” but experienced or fondly recalled by others.

It is our respectful view that religion has certain cultural and social interactive benefits, however, ultimate enlightenment by human reason derived from empirical experience is the sole route to Mankind’s ultimate realization of its award of Natural Evolution’s golden Trophy.

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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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Our proclivities for secular empiricism are not relevant to the present writing. Nor does the same intend to bear any relation to the eternal, metaphysical debate between secular epistemology and religious faith. Our theme, instead, relates to the erroneous, all-too-prevalent tactic of adopting a repugnant position for the perceived benefit of a dedicated cause. Recent events reveal the ultimate error, often the embarrassing foolishness of such fallacious tactics.

Our perception of contemporary events reveals a consistent and ardent support by the various Evangelical Churches and, in general, Evangelical Christianity, of Donald Trump, an observably bizarre and inconsistent choice, considering their bedrock belief in atonement for sin and redemptive virtue through devout piety.

As we understand Evangelical Christianity, the signature concept of redemption by the acquisition of religious faith and recognition of the essential “holiness of life” is equivalent to being beneficially “born again” to a life of faith, sexual restraint, relevant morality, and, more recently, academic scholarship.

For some time, it had discombobulated us to comprehend the apparently bizarre confluence between the American Evangelist population, its avowed, definitionally lofty religious and moral standards, and its bizarrely adamant support of Trump; the latter, the publicly demonstrated avatar of societally immoral, and even, pernicious criminal behavior. The solution to the morally principled conundrum was, at various times, provided to the public by way of media inquiry.

The Kafka-esque explanation for such support provides the instructive raw material for this writing; it constitutes a tactically sophomoric explanation amounting to the support of a shameless and systemic miscreant (Donald J. Trump), but one who, empirically, could protect Evangelical Christianity from attack by the secularistic “left.” The resultant exercise of such principled protection was not only a shameful revelation of a flawed fundamental doctrinal principle but, predictably, an absurdly conceived strategy.

We, of course, are not privy to the resultant facts to enable comment on the impact of such sophomorically flawed tactics on Evangelicals, generally. Nevertheless, the public perception of Trump’s egoistic and delusional behavior might, in conception, lead to a general public caricature of the faith movement for which his presence was deemed beneficial.

Trump’s insincere brandishing of the New Testament (upside down), at a political demonstration, sale of Trump Bibles with favorable inscriptions, with the same religious zeal as his sale of “golden” sneakers, and his recent gold-colored publication of himself adorned as the Catholic Pope ( especially, in consideration of the recent decease of the publicly beloved Pope Francis) is a testament to riding the wrong horse, and fundamentally to ill-conceived, tactically repugnant motivation.

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Until the regressive choice of the Trump Presidential Administration, the American Democratic Republic, with ample justification, boasted of its material abundance, as well as its afforded liberty and demonstrated humanism; the latter, symbolized, among other things, by the Statue of Liberty, the former, incorporated into its Constitutional Bill of Rights. The Nation’s signature grant of freedom of expression was inarguably evinced by a large, independent media, by its free Universities, and a system of Nationwide, unencumbered public library system, museums, and National Public Radio.

The Nation’s statutory and judicial determinations were responsibly charged with the resolution of human issues, “without fear or favor.” The Founders’ politically fundamental principle was the institutional aspiration for a governance, “by and for the People,” as faithfully guided by the citizens’ right to vote. A tripartite architecture of government (“Separation of Powers”) was construed with mutual authority to prevent any abuse by another branch (“Checks and Balances”) as a legal restraint to deter excess and ensure democratic rule.

Despite some discrete (but notably instructive), low points in the history of our Democratic Republic, the Founders’ conception was successfully accomplished, or at bottom, well along in the process, and the Nation experienced the desirable benefits of democratic rule, as well as material abundance. Policies of compassionate capitalism were construed to avoid or ameliorate the harsh personal eventualities of the dynamics of free market capitalism. The mantra of “moving up” by educational advancement has been reliably proven to be a personal dynamic to improved material success.

The comprehensive patchwork quilt of available abundance and quality of American life and opportunity was rudely shredded by the populist elevation of Donald J. Trump to the Office of the American Presidency. His atavistic efforts at authoritarianism, encompassing a philosophical blindness to the constitution and the rule of law, his complete lack of societal moral compass, and his neurotic egocentrism, combined with his ignorance and a warped reductionism, have morphed the Nation from a traditionally reputed avatar of justice and freedom, and a successfully abundant Nation, to a mimesis of reprehensible atavistic tyranny.

Trump’s systemic amoral baseness, diagnosably explored in length in previous writings, appears, as previously observed, to have its singular etiology in a lack of normal socialization, resulting in delusions of grandeur, inclusive, thematically, of a reductionist understanding of National and International issues; contextually including trade relationships. His delusional persona adds impetus to his distorted understanding of interactive world trade issues, including appropriate relationships with the United States’ long-established trading partners, as well as with its empirical competitors. Such a flawed understanding of commerce, international and domestic (as well as other personally perceived interactions), is part and parcel of his sophomoric mindset, that all trades and commercial relations necessarily evince a “winner” and a “loser.”

The latest, and most devastating iteration of his winning-losing neurosis is inarguably demonstrated in his reductive understanding of “tariffs” and the latter’s implications for the Nation’s businesses and its consumers ( to whom he pledged lower prices in his “snake-oil” campaign promises.) In empirical fact, the raising of tariffs is not an aggressive assertion of power against a foreign nation (“winning”) but leads to the inevitable effect of domestic increases in prices, to the consumer in the price of imported goods. Trump’s singular neurotic predelection that all transactions imply a “winner” and a “loser, analogous to his egregious and authoritarian lack of recognition of the American system of human rights, will ineluctably result in a pandemic of empty store shelves as well as the grim potential of a National authoritarian wasteland.

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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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