It is our unsettling view that the the toxic impact of Donald Trump’s Orwellian Presidency has potential sequelae far more profound and societally impactful than its present temporal appearance.
We have previously granted as a singular exception to our all-inclusive distaste for “aphorism ” the ubiquitously asserted chestnut: “One rotten Apple spoils the barrel,” (i.e., of Apples). We have observed, as have other mainstream American citizens, that the aberrant rule of Donald Trump as effectuating the temporal despoilment of the Constitutionally American way of life, the same, driven by his neurotically based, self-serving, and autocratic persona. As an illustrative and clinical typical example, Trump’s public avowal of “retribution” against his political opponents, for their purported acts of “weaponizing government,” is not only rationally inconsistent with the fundamental tenets of democracy, but constitutes a glaring example of Trump’s systemically ignorant, and impaired cognitive dissonance.
We have liberally used the receptacle of the garbage disposable “dumpster,” in the visual exploitation of its size and the aesthetics of its rank,odoriferous properties to describe the foul plethora of Trumpist policy. However, consistent with our occasional employment of the aphoristic “barrel,” we have utilized the latter form of container, analogically, as the execrable depository of President Trump’s failed, and odious policies. Our issue du jour, relates to the ultimate size and the extent of impact on society of the offensively “spoiled barrel.”
In our view, the temporal damage to individual rights and liberties, as assured by the American Constitution, as well as the absence of respect for the rule of law, is empirically temporal and can be salubriously restored by suitable policies and the dedicated renewal of normative polity. We are fearful, however, that the abnegation by the Trump-MAGA administration of certain societally existential mandates may, conceivably, portend chronic and fundamentally retrogressive sequelae.
Our perturbation relates to the potential extent of the toxic Trump-MAGA injury to the compliance with the fundamental “social compact,” underlying the basic dynamics requisite to Man’s living in society with others. The damage inflicted to the anthropological concept of ‘The Social Contract,” described by Rousseau and others, i.e., the voluntary surrender of certain liberty, in exchange for the mutual benefit of living in society, has been severely denigrated by the aberrant Trump administration, the latter, singularly lacking in societal moral compass. Political power, at the expense of moral humanism, has been the Trumpist standard of personal comportment, to the detriment of social conscience and empathy. Such matters, existential to the sustainment of society, are experiential and will necessarily require remedial education.
The most catastrophically harmful impact on the metaphysical existence of human society has been Trump’s egregiously immoral, toxic, anti-social attack upon the fundamental concept of “TRUTH.” The delusionally egocentric Donald J. Trump has threatened the entire “Barrel” of human society, with rank spoilation, by his doctrinal derogation of the existential societal element of “Truth,” and has perversely supported the neurotically dystopic franchise for the convenient assertion of “alternate facts,” and “fake news.”
This latter inclination, in our view, is, irrefutably, Donald Trump’s most egregiously harmful, anti-social, anti-civilizational social perversion. Without reliance on the North Star expectation of truth, there can exist no meaningful, useful interaction between individual Homo sapiens or the feasible existence of civilized society. The American citizen has recently and painfully learned that the venerated apple barrel of human freedom and democracy is large but alarmingly and regrettably, vulnerable.
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