Students of antiquity will predictably know that a “palimpsest” is the covering over of an erased document or parchment for the purpose of later writing, but of which traces of the erased original still remain.
We have chosen to employ the titled analogy to illustrate the sophomoric perception that, notwithstanding the earnest resolve of the mainstream citizen to adhere to his high expectations of principled conduct, the inexorable repetition of immoral conduct by President Donald Trump will effectively result in an enduring diminution of America’s traditional principles. To the contrary, we feel confident that the dedicated, moral, and humanistic citizen, notwithstanding such quotidian demonstrations of executive miscreance, will enduringly retain his personal perception of rectitude. The morally directed citizen will predictably cling to his innate values and systemic humanistic inclinations, as dictated by his benevolent life-long self-image.
The American mainstream perceptions of the actions of our contextual, self-indulgent, and delusionally egocentric sitting President are seen for what they empirically are, as opposed to their tactically worded explanations; the latter, amounting, analogically to a false and unconvincing palimpsest of the delusionally chosen action, not rationally acceptable to the informed and savvy citizen. In the singular case of Donald J. Trump, the eternal motivation is invariably based upon his delusional drive to be publicly acknowledged as a “winner.”
The fundamental dynamic behind Trump’s absurd, quotidian remarks and erratically despicable actions is his singularly delusional perception of objective reality, engendered by his lifelong, myopic, and singular aspiration to attain the neurotically based status of a declared “winner.” Any sophomoric explanations, tactical or otherwise, warrant summarily justified erasure from the parchment of empirical history and the reinstatement of the analogous process of the ancient palimpsest.
As is the case with such ancient procedures, unhappily, the erasures will be endurably and shamefully visible.
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