It is September, time for the annual meeting of the “Citizens For Decorum Inc., a/k/a “CPD,” a Domestic, Not-For-Profit. entity, whose stated corporate purpose is the reduction of America’s national strife, by the dedicated and programmatic avoidance of acrimonious interaction between political opponents.
The advent of the thematic entity, in or about February 2017, was coincident with, or perhaps catalyzed by, the prior election of Donald J. Trump to the Office of the American Presidency. At the date of the official filing of the Certificate of Incorporation, for C.F.D. inc., consisted of as many as 20 dedicated shareholders; as of the date of this writing, the number has increased exponentially to a record 4,000. Telephonic requests for membership continue to be received at the corporate offices in Washington, D.C., from American citizens, notably based upon the stated desire for the amelioration of tiresome and disconcerting bellicose interaction between citizens of diverse political persuasion, appropriate to a political system of governance, as intended by its Founders to be governed “by and for its People.”.
As observed in earlier writings, the Nation’s idealistic Founders, if alive, would be gravely disappointed with the blasé philosophical character of the contemporary American citizen. What developed, in empirical reality, contrary to their expectations, was an eternal “Cold W” between citizens in divergent camps of groupthink opinions and the resultant impossibility of reasonable and useful debate of the issues.
To aggravate matters, on the surprise ascension of Donald J. Trump to the Oval Office, any hope of the achievement of the Founders’ expectations relative to the benefits of useful debate morphed into a Pollyannaish dream. Analogous to the spread of disease by Typhoid Annie, Trump toxically introduced, and MAGA adherents succumbed to and metastasized, the singularly bizarre conceptual epidemic of “Alternative Facts.” In addition to the latter’s empirical absurdity, the virulent spread of such tactical infection made any reasonably useful exchange of views between diversely opinioned parties futile; and sadly led to inter-actively aggressive responses, so that, thematically, even the casual discussion of divergent issues became distantly cold, interplanatory, and pragmatically futile.
The mainstream American can best (and salubriously) spend his time objectively, presenting the political issues as well as the merits of proposed candidates, to factually oriented citizens capable of unbiased reason and moral humanism. Enough traditionally oriented voters will, predictably, carry the day.
Exasperated citizens desirous of affiliating with other peaceful promoters of traditionally American political beliefs to non-belligerent citizens are eternally invited to become active participants and shareholders in the non-disputatious, not-for-profit, political entity, “CFD, Inc.”
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