We have often referenced the prescient admonition of Thomas Jefferson that an informed and educated population is necessary for a democracy to succeed, and have been eternally aware of the significant number of populist citizens who, unfortunately, do not meet such a standard. Our Republican Democracy has historically suffered from this vulnerability, but not until the election of Donald J. Trump (twice) to the American Presidency has this vulnerability been so egregiously demonstrated.
We have in copious writings, presumably made sufficient reference to the erratic, ego-centric, unconstitutional acts and the notably amoral behavior of Donald J. Trump. Accordingly, we are of the view that a reprise of the dumpster-full record of his egregiously bizarre performance is neither necessary nor within the thematic intent of the present theme. What is relevant to this writing is our disturbing question as to the nature of the millions of American citizens who put him in office.
The media seemed to indicate that Donald Trump was elected in a demagogically induced tidal wave of optimism that, if elected, incomes would skyrocket, inflation would vanish, jobs would come roaring back, and the middle class would prosper like never before. Our own perception is that he was elected based on the familiarity of his TV celebrity established by the game show, and the general discontent with life on the part of the populist underbelly, together with the financial support of industrial moguls whose enormous profits are generated by the irresponsible industrial pollution of the atmosphere and who are, accordingly, pathologically opposed to government health regulations.
It is our understanding that Trump was virtually unknown to the general public until he became the host of an asinine TV game show called “The Apprentice.” In his father’s real estate business, Trump was infamously known for not paying contractors and, like his father, a systemically reputational and racially bigoted “gonif.” The subsequent public revelation of his amoral, incapable, and bizarre inclinations did precious little to diminish his demonstrated popular acceptability. The election and re-election of such a pernicious, egocentric, and persona to the National Presidency gave us pause and raised disturbing questions as to the essential quality of the Nation’s electorate who supported his ascendance to the Oval Office
Neither his demonstrated incapability, his serial mendacity, his neurotically singular, exclusive self-interest, his disregard of the Constitution and the rule of law, his unorthodox behavior and paranoid conspiracy ideations, his unabashed criminal acts, nor his vaunted sexually abusive behavior and general amoral behavior seemed to diminish his virtual tidal wave of support. We were, to put it simply, discombobulated, but also deeply concerned about the impact on our democracy of the (non-Jeffersonian) quality of the citizenry.
The oceans, however, are not empirically static as demonstrated by their tidal waves and alterations engendered by other significant actions of the ocean. such as their daily tides and other natural phenomena.
The ultimate revelation of the falsity of Trump’s “snake oil” demagogic promises of immediate improvement of the Nation’s economic scene, notably, consumer prices, his dystopic and illegal employment of a distopian masked and uniformed private army to arrest, incarcerate, and deport innocent, productive, taxpaying Hispanic Americans, without a scintilla of due process, solely founded upon their tan skin and use of Spanish language, his unauthorized, barbarous and hubristic demolition of the East Wing of the Nation’s venerated White House, to construct a personally deemed, appropriate, 300 million dollar ballroom, concommitant with his inhumane elimination of food and medical assistance to the needy, plus his autocratic and illegal domestic, use of the military, has dramatically reversed the direction of his former tide of support and initiated a consequential tsunami of “NO KINGS” opposition. To utilize the theme and title of this writing, “The tide has (beneficially) turned.”
We are looking forward to the expeditious arrival of a calm sea for the progress of our Ship of State.
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