The demagogic “Snake Oil” salesman, presently squatting in the Nation’s Oval Office, has eternally employed the tactical meme, “Make America Great Again.” Far more misleading than its demagogic implication that the American Nation has ever been less than “Great” have been his dystopian and self-centered policies, which in empirical reality make our American Nation less potent and morally influential.
History has shown that a nation’s most impactful resource is not its oil, minerals, terrain, or geographic location, but, empirically, its people. Recent history has confirmed our thematic observation by the instructive example of World War II Germany; the latter, a relatively small or medium-sized country, came frighteningly close to conquering the World. Its strength and military prowess were attributable to its educated, well-organized, and readily mobilizable population.
In contrast to its tactically employed, “snake oil” assertion: “Make America Great Again” (“MAGA”), the Trump Administration has ubiquitously damaged the Nation’s historic standing, reputation, and capabilities, including its military prowess, by, inter alia, attacking the Nation’s institutions of learning and, thereby, weakening its systemic strength and security.
The Trump Administration’s assault on higher education, inclusive of the malign threats of withholdfing federal funding and the assertion of regulatory power to influence socially beneficial institutional policies, especially diversity, equity, and inclusion (“DEI”), academic freedom, as well a perceived campus political life, its cutting off of research grants, and the harebrained act of elimination of the National Education Department, are policies and actions inarguably antithetical to the strength and well-being of the Nation; and, sadly, consistent with its hapless incapability and profound iignorance.
The Trump Administration’s attack on higher education involves a multi-pronged approach using federal funding and asserted regulatory power to politically influence the Nation’s existentially vital University system. Such an inappropriate and unwise attack on the nation’s institutions of higher learning has included the arbitrary, political threat of the withholding of federal funding and other inimical and asserted detrimental regulatory policies. These assaults upon academic freedom and the Nation’s Constitution have been employed by the current Administration to deter salubriously utilitarian and morally appropriate policies of “Diversity, Equity and Inclusion” (DEI). Such unfair and unwise extortionate policies have included the suicidal cutting off of funds for medical and scientific research, as well as the ubiquitous elimination of academic. research grants.
The unwise and perverse practice of politically driven governmental influence on the Nation’s academic life and progress is fundamentally inconsistent with Man’s aspirational advancement and inimical to the strength and endurance of the Nation.
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