As we have often declared, this blogspace had initially been dedicated to the exploration and aspirational enhancement of Man’s efforts to achieve a fulfilled life. We have eternally championed personal advancement through the study of the humanities, the reading of good literature, the study of art, and, in notable addition, the cultivation of personal, elective interests. However, the beneficial goal has b diverted by the ominous threat of anti-democratic and inept governance, personified by Donald J.Trump and his exotic menagerie of inept Cabinet Ministers in toxic combination with a catastrophic Congress.
Admittedly, in the course of our opposition to such a developing autocracy and our ardent support for appropriate constitutional governance, we may have been remiss in our discussion of the underlying, metaphysical subject relevant to the character of an electorate that would elect such a catastrophic Chief Executive. It is entirely conceivable that we had been reluctant to admit the fact that our venerable Nation is inclusive of a large, determinative horde of inadequately educated and poorly informed populists; the latter, dynamically hazardous to the endurance of a Democratic Republic.
Such a regressive public eschews the reading of good literature, salubrious participation in cultural and educational events, intellectual engagement in esoteric political and moral problems,; nor, ultimately, the salubrious incentive to advance its understanding of itself and perception of its environment. Notably,i It has historically been demonstrated that the most significant and impactful national resource is its people. As a necessary consequence, only a Nation with a sufficient population of educated and informed citizens can truly prosper and long endure.
It is sad and extremely disappointing to observe that too many fellow American citizens would appear to prefer ephemeral and insubstantial pursuits capable of momentary diversion to those more personally challenging and rewarding.. The inevitable result is an individual life consisting of minimally inspiring surface impressions, as contrasted with the salubrious sense of a life of self-fulfillment.
Returning to the matter of the metaphysical cause and dynamics of the Nation’s extant autocratic and dystipian indisposition,, contemporarily sickening and then metastisizing in America’s body politic, we would thematically observe that our inept and syastemically corrupt President initially attracted the notice of the contextual horde of American populists, by virtue of his service as the host of a sophomoric and insipid television game show, “The Apprentice;” the same apparently, an item of choice of the populist television audience. Donald J. Trump, previously relegated to the activity of a “real estate gonif,” thereby caught the attention of the stereotypical populist, with the ultimate consequence of a roiling, unstable, embarrassed Nation,
The many and ubiquitous Presidential overreaches of unconstitutional power, with the silent acquiescence of his MAGA, populist base, have been responsibly observed in many of our earlier writings. Trump’s demonstrated relationship with Jeffry Epstein, the rich package store, entrepreneur, demonstrably guilty of decades of sexual abuse of young women, Trump’s overt derogation of the Constitution, law, the media, his prosecution of institutions of higher education, intimate friendships with enemy leaders, stupendious violations of the Emolument Clause, profanely enriching himself and family, his Gestapo policies toward Hispanic Americans, his impropoer use of governmental authority to obtain autocratic retribution against political opponents, his untethered elimination of programs of food and medicinal aid, natioinally and internationally, his bizarre and illegal imposition of tariffs on imported goods, thus raising prices and courting inflation, (despite his demagogicly false promises vto lower prices,) his asserted control over educational institutions and scientific progress. his televised and other violations of the voting laws, his solicitation of an insurrection against thev Capital and subsequent pardoning and praising the criminal insurgents, his adjudicated 34 felony convictions and uncountable outstanding criminal indictments, his adjudications of tax fraud and sexual abuse, his sdjudicated defamation, his blatant violation of posse comitatus by dictatorily employing the military for private purposes, his unauthorized declarations of war, his fascistic program of retribution against political opponents, his warmongering statementsd regarding Greenland and Canada, and a dumpster-full amount of other immoral acts, apparently were not sufficient cause Trump’s loyal supporters to lose a wink of sleep.
However, Trump’s recent actions, causing certain late-night comedians to be removed and thereby daring to interfere with populist television choices, may well constitute appropriate grounds for the dense MAGA horde of populists to write Trump off the hallowed list of populist deities. The blatant interference with the populist, couch potato’s choice will undoubtedly constitute “a bridge too far.”
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- Title borrowed from the eponymous novel by Cornelius Ryan.
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