Month: June 2025

This week, the public media have been replete with reports of enormous crowds protesting the autocratic and unprecedented unconstitutional actions of our power-hungry President; most particularly, his fascistic treatment of foreign-born families residing and working peacefully in the United States.

Trump’s cruel and blatantly unconstitutional acts have included arrest, imprisonment, and banishment to foreign torture jails, based upon entirely unsupported, prejudicial accusations of criminality, without the semblance of constitutional due process. In outrageously unprecedented and illegal aggravation of such fascistic behavior, President Trump has, in violation of the fundamentally American, historic mandate of “passe comportatis,” ordered combat marines and National Guard to Los Angeles to enforce his draconian decrees. The desecration of the U.S. Constitution and the Rule of Law has been the ubiquitously uniform policy of this would-be monarch, whose demonstrated, neurotic lust for dictatorially unlimited power and wealth overrides any personal consideration of morality and humanism.

Like all mainstream Americans, we harbor unsettling feelings of shock, worry, and fear, relative to the endurance of our Democratic Republic and the American way of life. We are daily in receipt of reports of the pervasive and unconstitutional Presidential behavior of Donald Trump and his bizarre menagerie of Cabinet members, whose blind loyalty to the Orange-haired autocrat, rather than moral character or relevant capability, was the sole, albeit mandatory, prerequisite to appointment.

Trump’s asserted motivation to cut fraud, waste, and abuse in government evinced no such waste, fraud, and abuse, but did, nevertheless, succeed in decimating the Nation’s vital, utilitarian civil service, deprived Americans of needed financial relief, and eliminated funding for the Nation’s vital health research facilities. Trump shamefully terminated all empathetic and existential funding to relief agencies that furnish food and vital medicine to starving and needy nations.

In previous writings, we have made reference to the cruel and inhumane policies of the sitting President, which inarguably demonstrate a complete absence of professional or moral sense of responsibility, but rather a singular emphasis on the acquisition of autocratic power and limitless wealth. Donald Trump’s toxic need to demonstrate absolute power as well as material success summons to mind the instructional Greek myth of “King Midas.”

The reader may recall the myth of King Midas, which portrays its royal protagonist as neurotically obsessed with an insatiable desire to acquire gold and prays to the God Dionysus for the magical power to transform, by touch, ordinary items to gold. The fervent wish was, indeed, granted, but King Midas’ joy was transmogrified to grief when, upon intending to affectionately touch his little daughter, she was immediately changed from flesh-and-blood human to gold.

The presentation of this mythological reference is not intended to mitigate the reader’s justifiable concerns relative to Donald Trump’s aberrations by the assurance of some inevitable retribution. Our mythical reference is utilized as a beneficial reminder of the metaphysical failure of greed in the human aspiration for success so that the pain experienced during the Trump Presidency will entirely lack any conceivable value. The ancient myth is consistent in principle with our many enunciated declarations that the universal aspiration for the conclusion of having had a successful life, is not dependent upon the demonstrative acquisition of assets, but, rather, on a rewarding sense of ultimate personal self-fulfillment; a concept far outside of Donald J. Trump’s reductively limited and impenetrable bubble.

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The rich Spanish history of California is exemplified by its plethora of Hispanic names, viz., San Francisco, San Bernardino, San Diego, and others. The City of Los Angeles, as popularly known, translates to the “City of Angels.” With thematic reference to the latter, the American Nation has been witness to an unprecedented, anti-democratic (“Satanic)” attack launched against the City of Los Angeles.

Citizens the City of Los Angeles, like many other Americans, have publicly expressed their moral and legal opposition to the cruel and blatantly unconstitutional actions of the autocratic Trump administration practiced on immigrants, such as, breaking up families, imprisonment, deportation to foreign torture prisons, notably, without any semblance of due process.

Such fascistic policies are the preoccupation of our egocentric, delusional, and ignorant Chief Executive, spurred on by his pathologically cruel xenophobic advisor, Steven Miller, and officially implemented through his Homeland Security Secretary, Kristi Noam. The latter is an outstanding member of the Trump menagerie of Cabinet Secretaries, widely known for shooting her puppy dead, because he was a “slow learner,” and her demonstrated ignorance of the term “habeas corpus.”

The articulated expression of public opposition has been motivated by the reprehensible tactics practiced against immigrants, and according to the express franchise ( to petition for grievances) provided in the Constitution. It has been the reprehensible, cruel policy of the Trump Administration, notwithstanding the express provisions of the Constitution, to impose (through ICE) the stereotypically Gestapo menu of cruelties, as previously stated..

It is somewhat comforting to observe that the mainstream American citizenry has been expressing its ardent opposition to Trump’s illegal and barbaric immigration policy, in its systemic and articulated reprise of the 1930s”Kristallnacht.”

The xenith of Trump’s monarchical policy was shockingly realized yesterday when the soft-spoken, articulate, Senior Senator of Caslifornia, Alex Badilla was arrested, brutallythrown to the ground, and handcuffed for dutifully intending ( after identifying himself) on behalf of his constituency, to question the infamous Secretary of Homeland Security, Kristi Noam, as to the unprecedented and legally unauthorized presence of combat marines and National Guard in response to the consequent, public expression of grievance.

The shock and opposition to this grotesque example of unAmerican-Nazi repressive misbehavior is in no way, appropriately, limited to a partisan concern. The cautionary warning provided by the historic 1930s Hitler coup should be the jarring nightmare of every sane American.

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The time-worn Anglo-French linguistic pun, “One man’s fish is another man’s poison” (“‘poissone”), is inarguably inapplicable and principally inappropriate to our clearly expressed, definitional word, “insurrection” ( also in the French vocabulary). It is to be dynamically noted that merely protesting and contextually engaging in acts of violence, as such, does not properly, or legally, constitute an insurrection, nor, notably, does an influx of undocumented immigrants constitute a rebellion.

Donald J. Trump’s hubristic maniacal aspiration to expand his personal power as Chief Executive by autocratically prosecuting and purging immigrants (with the sociopathic enthusiasm and aid of his Eichmann-like cheerleader, Steven Miller) has tactically and falsely invoked that designation relative to sundry instances of American citizens legally exercising their constitutionally assured franchise to petition the government regarding their grievances.

Trump, a systemic desecrator of empirically developed norms and statutory proscriptions, has grossly violated the foundational Federal Law known as “Posse Comitatus,” which prohibits a President from employing the military to enforce domestic policies. In a grossly autocratic manner, he has sent Marines and National Guard to the City of Los Angeles to quell demonstrators, constitonally engaged in protesting his draconian immigration policies of punishment, and banishment of foreign born American residents to torture prisons,in other countries, based upon unproven allegations and notably, without the exercise of due process.

One cannot fail to experience sheer frustration in the recollection that an undeniably patent and violent “insurrection,” against the American Government took place on January 6, 2021, at the D.C. Capitol Building, notably, at the express request and with the full support of Donald Trump; following his neuroticly, unbearable loss of the Presidential election. Capitol police suffered death and traumatic injury in their dutiful and dangerous attempts to quell the acts of violent rage expressed by the Trump-inspired rioters. Prominent among the thousands of insurgents were the members of the nefarious National White Christian Militias, “The Proud Boys,” and “The Oath Keepers.” In addition to the many Capitol police seriously injured or killed, property damages reportedly exceeded 2,17 million dollars; before Donald Trump, arbitrarily decided to turn off his television set and call the resurrection off. It may be contextually noted that the D.C. National Guard was never summoned for assistance during the violent insurrection..

It continues to painfully rankle us that Trump, the inspiration, producer, and choreographer of said invidious crime of insurrection, in which he was thus complicit, was, as President, constitutionally invested with the temporally unjust and bizarre power to fully pardon all of his inspired fellow criminal participants.

Donald Trump’s falsely reductionist charge that the citizens of Los Angeles, in their outrage at his atavistic Gestapo tactics respecting peaceful immigrants, are waging an “insurrection” rather than a constitutionally protected act of petition is, as not unusual in his case, tactically false and self-serving. The arbitrary pardon of the January 6th rioters, in rational contrast, is an irrefutable revelation that Trump’s falsely subjective charge of “insurrection” is empirically and legally false and self-serving; and, if, conceivably, rational, ideologically delusional.

The subjective inconsistency is consistent with Trump’s fundamental and systemic incapacity to discern empirical reality, due to his singular, monofocused, neurotic drive to acquire monarchical, unlimited power. This toxic hubris results in Trump’s toxic mental and spiritual catatonia, rendering him a clear and present danger to humanistic society. For this reason, we have often descriptively and dynamically referred to this grossly inappropriate occupant of the Oval Office as the “Orange Hazmat.”
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We will preface the present writing with profuse apologies regarding its title. The original, unexpurgated admonition, “The pen is mightier than the sword,” is an empirically wise declaration that the written word is more effective and endurable than violence as a means of social change. We humbly confess that presenting this theme does not, in any remote way, relate to the contextual meaning of the original statement; nevertheless, we have shamelessly utilized it, in its present conveniently changed form, for this writing, concerning the reversal in the relationship between Donald J. Trump, the egocentric afficionato of  the black, felt tip marker (the “sharpie”) as an emphatic show of determinative authority, and the the ludicrous act of brandishing a chainsaw by his formerly compliant troll, Elon Musk; the latter to symbolize the programmic demolition of the Nation’s vital system of civil services, shamefully inclusive of humanistic, empathic programs such as USAID, Social Security and Medicaid, as well as its health protective research and clinical resources viz., NIH, the CDC and other like vital human resources.

Musk, reportedly, the richest man in the world, had contributed millions of dollars to Trump’s re-election and, for an extensive period, functioned as if he were Donald Trump’s” unelected “co-President,” in the Administration’s represented and delusional aspiration to cut (unspecified) “waste and fraud” from the government. Notably, there were no ultimate showings of such waste and fraud, an absence of congressional hearings or findings; merely a summary application of the thoughtless administrative guillotine, decapitating scores of agencies and discharging thousands of hapless and dedicated civil servants.

There existed for a time, a publicly demonstrated “bro-mance” during which much high praise exchanged between the orange autocrat and his bizarre, troll-like “Sorcerer’s “Apprentice” affording sufficient time to wreak, conceivably, irreparable damage to the administrative functioning of federal government, before the dark storm clouds arrived, to deter the dual, cooperative imposition of further inane and disabling surgery to the body politic resulting in a predictable contested and rancorous divorce betwethe two co-Presidents, as we had often predicted,

Our early predictions of a break-up were based upon the following empirical observations: (a) Musk’s great wealth is, in large part, supported by his manufacture of electric vehicles in China. Trump has recently singled out China as an enemy and imposed massive tariffs on imports from that nation. (b) The elimination of toxic fuel pollution is the fundamental “raison d’être” for the development and use of electric automobiles, Yet, Trump has been an outspoken advocate for the program he emphatically articulates as, “drill, baby drill!” and perhaps the salient ground for divorcement fundamentally, is (c) the fact that both are inveterate egomaniacs, systemically unable to suffer disparate opinion. as thus, predictably vulnerable to mutual dispute.

Musk and his cadre of sophomoric young muskrats have now departed, leaving behind a wasteland of vital and utilitarian unfulfilled governmental facilities. The chainsaw, brandished by the performance-oriented idiot-savant, has been put back in the tool shed, but, regrettably, the thick hubristic assertions of the felt-tip black Sharpie are as notoriously hubristic and irresponsible as always.

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We have always faithfully subscribed to the equitable principle of “giving credit where credit is justly due.” The present writing, consistent with the exercise of such responsibility, recognizes the Trump Administration and its mandatorily loyal menagerie of flawed Cabinet Members, together with support furnished by his cultish lemmings, as responsible for the present ubiquitous abduction of American Constitutional liberty. The most conspicuous victims du jour appear to be the hapless members of two Trump-targeted categories, “immigrants” and “women.”

Donald Trump, in his systematically motivated self-interest, with the knee-jerk, vociferous approval of his populist horde of cultish followers, has ubiquitously perverted existing American law and tradition. In a Nation, populated, in the main, by former immigrants and their descendants, he has chosen to summarily visit unwarranted arrests, imprisonment, and atavistic banishment to foreign torture prisons, upon persons of foreign birth (many, peaceably living for years with family in the United States, working and paying tax,) on the purported grounds of gangland criminality; without a confirming scintilla of confirmation, and notably, contrary to the Constitution, and the system of American jurisprudence, as having been imposed without minimal due process.

In shameful addition, despite the express constitutional right of petition for grievances, many morally dedicated, patriotic American citizens have been arrested and charged with commission of felonious criminality for peacefully asserting their moral outrage at such inappropriate, Gestapo-like governmental travesty, notably, as well, without a semblance of Constitutional due process. The Trump administration has chosen to cynically utilize, as purported justification, the ample populist-reductionist lexicon of mythological ideation, such as the (non-existent) fear of criminality, xenophobic inferiority, and various other faux assertions, empirically catalyzed by Trump’s demagoguery to tactically disguise his true, insatiable desire for despotic power.

America, the traditionally recognized avatar of the humanistic welcoming of needy immigrants, expressively articulated by its prominent Statue of Liberty and its Statutory law, has historically determined immigration to be legal and appropriate.

Said exemplary, humanistic franchise has recently been perverted by Donald Trump, in his declared desire for autocratic power, by the perverse, tactical marshaling of support among his right-wing, xenophobic supporters in aid of his declared intention. Unlike such indoctrinated and reductively biased MAGA supporters, the notable issue, for Trump, is, factually, far less referable to his encouragement of xenophobia, as it is to his acquisition of unlimited power and public adulation. It may be interestingly noted that Trump’s wife and her two divorced predecessors, in fact, have been foreign-born immigrants.

The same sub-rosa dynamic exists regarding Trump’s opposition to the natural right of a pregnant mother to personally elect to undergo an abortion, either for health, economic, social, or psychological reasons. Again, the fundamental motivation of the egoistic, sociopathic, sitting President is relegated to the desire for autocratic power.

The un-American, Gestapo tactics employed regarding foreign-born individuals living peaceful, productive, and tax-paying lives in the Nation are analogously being utilized in the sub-rosa service of Trump’s power lust, in the intimate arena of a woman’s pregnancy and childbirth. Such analogous autocratic travesty constitutes an intrusive ban on the natural maternal authority of women respecting their rights relative to the personal subject of their pregnancy and childbirth.

In a rational and morally responsible world, the subject of childbirth and rearing would appropriately reside in the mother. However, this tautologically sound view, in the autocratic ambiance of power-hungry, Trump-land, is pervertedly otherwise. Our orange, hair-dyed, egoistic, and sociopathic Chief Executive has, in fact, often publicly and proudly claimed credit for the criminalization of the previously precedential, personal right of a mother, albeit for professionally determined, compelling reasons, or perforce, dire medical necessity, to obtain a needed abortion.

The intrusive legal impediment to abortion, in homage to certain atavistically inclined religious groups, in his desire for autocratic power, may be the most damaging and repulsive of Trump’s ample plethora of autocratic horribles. For example, even in situations of potential mortality, the new legal determination forbidding abortion renders physicians confused and hesitant to perform procedures, often in life-threatening cases, even when the offspring is medically determined to be not viable, for fear of losing their medical license and imprisonment for criminal behavior.

This scenario is indisputably not in keeping with the American context of appropriate National governance, nor with any rational interpretation of Republican Democracy. Our traditionally venerable Nation has been traumatized by the temporal kidnapping by the autocratic motivations of an egocentric sociopath and must be returned safely home to its natural state of definitional liberty and democracy as soon as the enlightened American citizenry has the (voting) opportunity, resoundingly to do so.

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Herman Melville is venerably included among the Nation’s best novelists and short story writers, universally known for his literary masterpiece, Moby Dick. However, we maintain an immeasurable degree of gratitude for the enlightenment subtly delivered in his novella, “Bartleby the Scrivener,” which has served to put to rest a presently confusing dilemma. We will elucidate.

We, and presumably, a great many fellow Americans, have been in a deeply confusing quandary as to the elevation of Donald J. Trump to the elevated and powerful Oval Office and the tolerated endurance of his amoral, grotesque and dystopic behavior. The dilemma has shocked and confused the rationality of the mainstream citizen, in its manifest miscreant behavior, inarguably contrary to, and in disregard of legal precedent, and moral expectation. We have, in previous writings, detailed many typical examples of the unprecedented plethora of his egregious behavior, domestic and international, ubiquitously ranging from unconstitutional and criminal to outright treasonous.

The contextual anomaly consists of his apparently singular teflon-like immunity from appropriate punishment and the endurance of his blemished acceptability by a Nation, which historically has avowed the foundational principle of ” equality under the law.” His exotic endurance challenges the very foundations of our Nation’s basic expectations concerning acceptable social behavior. It is irrefutable that other miscreant American citizens, evincing far less repetitive venality, have been, expectantly chastised and punished. Notably, it is to Mr. Herman Melville, specifically, in his novella, “Bartleby the Scrivener,” that we gratefully find the subtle explanation for our long-standing, disturbing dilemma.

In the novella the protagonist. Bartleby, employed in the law office of a prominent Wall Street lawyer as a document copier (“scrivener”), on a singularly significant occasion, when routinely requested by his employer to copy a particular document, surprisingly chose to reply, “I choose not to do so.” and persisted in his unprecedentedly societally aberrant and revolutionally refusal.

The fictional employer, experientially accustomed to stereotypical obedience from an employee concerning matters within the definitional scope of his job, was not only dismayed but profoundly nonplussed, regarding such unexpected and revolutionary refusal. Despite repeated requests, Bartleby persisted in his reply, “I choose not to do so,” including, ultimately, the acceptance of his firing and the strident demand to remove from the office. As we recall the narrative, the employer was, himself, ultimately required, in desperation, to move to another office.

The enlightening message of Melville is that there are certain fundamental, metaphysical expectations, hard-wired by our socialization into our psyche (here, the expected obedience of a servant to his master, or an employee to his employer) that are not only normalized, but existential to the effectuation of any cognizably appropriate response. Absent the hard-wired, societally predictable response, the reality of an appropriate reaction to a stimulus is empirically confused and disabled.

Our thematic conundrum is explicable in an analogous fashion to the exotic, unprecedented, and precedentially inconceivable behavior of Melville’s unique protagonist, Bartleby. The prodigiously remarkable, overflowing dumpster of wrongdoing, universal disregard of the law, and of the basic strictures of the societal moral compass, evinced by the exotically singular persona of Donald J. Trump, is far outside empirical experience and thus of sufficient comprehension to enable appropriate response, or empirical experience.

Like Bartleby, the metaphysical offense against human expectation and acceptability is, apparently, outside the empirical capacity of societally adjusted mainstream citizens to referentially comprehend, leading to their temporal humanistic amazement and responsive paralysis.

Donald Trump, however, is an ultimate societal lesson in the art of sociopathy and egoistic lack of humanism; an advancing understanding and rational acceptance of which, before long, will be succeeded by appropriate censure and legal retribution.

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As a momentary respite from writing on the subject of the horrors of the Trump-distorted Nation, it may instead be an interesting diversion to, instead, consider the various and sundry ways that the traditional institution of the “American Family” has contemporaneously morphed into an analogous microcosm of the present dystopic state of American society.

We have written about our childhood in the 1940s, featuring World War 2 and its historic aftermath. We described those years as memorably evincing a ubiquitous pride in National identity (albeit, complicated somewhat by the atavistic persistence, among some, of ethnic and racial distinctions) and the American stereotypic family as an integral building block in the basic structure of the Nation, analogous to the function of the (then newly discovered) atom as the metaphysical constituent of earthly matter.

At such time, families were routinely perceived as sub-societies with members affiliated officially by blood as well as emotionally, by singular nuance and attachment; a closeness having its etiological advent in biology and subsequently, as developed intimacy founded in personal identification and singular bond. The family, as an intimate unit, mutually experienced feelings of joy, sorrow, and notably shared experiences such as vacations, celebrations, joint outings, and often, worship.

Radio was then the public’s resource for news and entertainment, and served a notable role in joint family interaction. ( see earlier writing, “Radio days”). On sundry evenings, typically after the fully attended family dinner and shared enterprise of clearing the table and washing and stacking the dishes, the family would retire to the living room, for the shared entertainment provided by way of the family radio, often enclosed in an item of decorative wooden furniture strategically placed opposite the living room couch and upholstered chairs. The family unit would listen to the news of the war and, as well, mutually enjoy the regular dramatic serial programs. The stereotypical occasion evinced the mutually understood precedential seating of the members of the attendant family. Notably, this intimate social scenario and mise en place are now relegated to ubiquitous nostalgia.

Our Founding Fathers, as advised by written history, predicted that in the newly created Nation, responsible citizens would, in good spirit, debate the controversial issues of the day, and the conclusions referentially utilized as a guide to the apt governance of a Democratic Republic: “by and for the People.”

History has, nevertheless, demonstrated the optimistic error of the Founders’ expectations. As time progressed, groups of citizens chose to band together with others of like opinion and vilify and denigrate other groups with divergent views, analogous to the existence of a Cold War. Ambitious and unscrupulous politicians tactically began to avail themselves of the personal opportunities posed by such ardent divisiveness. The American society gradually became “Balkanized” or divisive, as distinguished from its temporal congenial bond of common nationality.

The perversely celebrated advent of digital “progress” in communication served as an exponentially toxic catalyst in the developing metastasis of such (personally and nationally) unhealthy, disputational antipathy, and the former communal solidarity of the American Nation quickly became anachronistic and was. transmogrified into a Nation of discreet and impersonal transmitters of digital and inexpressive signals; the latter universal practice resulting in further personal divisiveness and personally isolating singularity. The “smartphone” transmission of inexpresive and non-identifiably nuanced digital messages onto small, handheld, lighted screens dynamically affected our contemporaneous chronic, empirically toxic sequelae of the loneliness of disparate existence. Normal and healthy social interaction was unwisely superseded by facile, albeit emotionally unhealthy, unfulfilling inexpressiveness and personal separation; an existential societal retrogression (albeit, touted as “progress”). The previously existing community of universal National affiliation was digitally hobbled and reduced to an all-pervasive,, lonely individuality.

Societal participation in joint social events, such as community barbeques, dances, general neighborly activities, visiting the public library for the ultimate affirmation of successfully acquired information, book clubs, and reading of character-enlightening literature, generally, became passé and deemed anachronistic in the new world of digital message transmission and robot-initiated activities. One was no longer required to get off the couch to change television programs, hear recorded music, or initiate carpet vacuuming. Accomplishment was universally and sadly conflated with convenience, with the toxic result of human interaction resulting in the decline of the existentially vital, interactive dynamics of healthy human society.

An acquaintance recently asked us why startling media reports show unhappiness, confusion, depression, and even suicide, among many of our younger generation. Resistant as we have eternally been to aphoristic statements, we are, nevertheless, obliged to admit the utility of one which is relevant in this context: “The apple does not fall far from the tree.”

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Eminent philosophers throughout history have declared that the governed (“the People”) are always more powerful than the governors; the most recent being the 20th-century Egyptian Wael Ghomim. This universally empirical truism dates back to its declaration by the 18th-century philosopher, Jean Jacques Rousseau.

The Nation currently finds itself unprecedently standing on the precarious fault lines of democratic history. The present, bizarre, dystopian state of the Republic, the inarguable result of the populist election of Donald J. Trump, has been existentially threatened and constitutes the stereotypical scenario of a dark and chilling nightmare, contemporaneously experienced by traditional American citizens.

The elevation of Trump to the Oval Office has proximately resulted in policies plainly forbidden by the fundamental principles of our Constitution, the rule of law, and societal morality, as copiously detailed in previous writings. The idealistic Founding Fathers would, no doubt, be diagnosibly apoplectic in response to the shocking perversion and decline of their brilliant, radical experiment in political governance. The traditional, mainstream citizen, with sufficient cause, is fearful of an impending transmogrification of his unique Democratic Republic to an autocratic polity analogous to that as exists in countries like Hungary, Russia, and Venezuela.

The late, brilliant and lyrically articulate Elie Wiesel, notably declared, on a somewhat related subject, “The opposite of love is not hate, it is indifference.” There is a contextual analogy to such a declaration concerning the presenting hazard to our democracy, viz., the abhorrent prospect of tyranny as the result of hapless acquiescence.

The historically empirical principle that the “governed are always more powerful than the governors” needs meaningful acknowledgement by the American citizen and determinably acted upon. It is of existential importance that, despite the startling incidence of their profound dismay, the citizenry importantly refrain from acquiescing in, and remaining silent in response to such perverse transgressions upon their unique and precious democracy.

For those who may require a measure of suggestive guidance as to actions, perceived as ultimately impactful to a desired restoration of our traditional Jeffersonian democracy, we have taken the liberty to relate some which presently come to mind, but not intended to be exclusive:

(1) The citizen, rather than choosing merely to passively wring his hands in dismay, must affirmatively resolve to take whatever personal action is possible, such as organizing, speaking, or writing in aid of preserving traditional American democracy.

(2) Staying empowered and emphatically supporting higher education and other institutions of learning and advancement, with mandatory insistence on the complete historical record truth and the rejection of “alternate or abridged facts.

(3) Non- cooperation with efforts, governmental or otherwise, in programs in opposition to the reliable implementation of the Bill of Rights, viz., book banning and censorship, restriction, and the on the right of citizen privacy (including abortion), and the promotion of empathic and just policies relative to immigration, including the promulgation of a pragmatic and fair procedure for the attainment of citizenship; and relegating deportation only to immigrants with a criminal record,

(4) Affirmatively and ubiquitously supporting the principle of Separation of Church and State and the individual right to believe, not believe, or subscribe to any religion,

(5) When appropriate, to impactfully oppose bigotry by supporting legitimate efforts by business and educational institutions, and to promote policies of freedom of opportunity for universal self-realization applicable to our diverse population.

(6) To keep well informed and active concerning the platforms of candidates for public office, with relevant knowledge of their past record and positions on governmental policies.

(7) To publicly boycott businesses and institutions that decry programs designed to promote equality, such as DEI,

(8) Creatively and affirmatively interjecting possible comments at anti-democratic or discriminatory speeches, employing relevant humor when appropriate.

(9) Peaceably refusing to cooperate or support any program that is empirically perceived to be antithetical to democracy,

(10) Vocally support and electively vote for morally capable, suitably acceptable candidates for political office.

Of all the appropriate and effective suggestions in aid of the restoration of our traditional democracy, we would stress that refraining from silent acquiescence to its present threats, and the positive assertion of the American Nation’s true and systemically definitional dedication to ubiquitous liberty, is the best route to the return of the traditional American democracy and its promise of freedom of self-realization.

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