Month: December 2025

Winston Churchill, whom we often find suitable to quote, said, “Democracy is the worst form of government, aside from all the other forms of government.” In this writing, we modestly suggest certain alterations to the fabric of our traditional American democracy, intended to smooth over its historically demonstrated wrinkles. Our emphasis is on achieving the avowed aspiration of our benevolent Founders, to create a polity “By and for the People.”

The contextual imperfections are diurnally revealed in the public media and thus presumably require no repetition. Additionally, for the dual purposes of brevity and clarity, we have chosen to categorize and briefly reference each category, arranged in the order of our perception of their empirical consequence:

(1) [Vetting of Presidential aspirants]: We have often suggested the thorough vetting of all politicians aspiring to be nominees for the Presidential election. We have noted the mandatory existence of prerequisite interviews for the most mondane of jobs, but bizarrely, no such vetting for aspiring nominees for the most consequential and historically impactful position on Earth. A non-partisan or bi-partisan review would pragmatically be essential to filter out inept, immorally neuritic, and inappropriate candidates like Donald J. Trump.

(2) [The Electoral College]: To assure the Nation’s avowed representational goal of “one man, one vote” (i.e., representative democracy), the anti-democratic institution known as the “Electoral College” must be abolished. Voters do not, as appears, vote for their choice of candidate for Chief Executive, but rather for delegates from their State, committed to the candidate. A majority of the 270 Electors is required to select the President. Each State has the same number of Electors as Congressional delegates, plus two Electors for the Senate. The record evinces a notably substantial number of instances of elected Presidents who, in fact, lost the popular (“one man, one vote”) standard of American election but were successful by the nuanced operation of the vote of the Electoral College.

(3) [Presidential Pardon and Executive Immunity]: Another existential feature of a legitimate Republican Democracy is the consistent and unvarying application of the foundational atavistiv principle that “No man is above the law.”

Despite America’s 18th-century repudiation of Monarchy in favor of Republican Democracy, the arbitrary right of pardon has been inappropriately and atavistically retained. The same, on its face and as applied, is inconsistent with the tenets of a Democratic Republic as analogous to a toxic vestigial organ that, by reason of its principled unfairness and notable record of blatant abuse, must be excised.

So too, should the recent aberrant decision of SCOTUS, granting immunity to a sitting President for all “Official” acts be overturned; the President as a citizen and no citizen is above the law; said correction is especially appropriate to the hubristic, Donald Trump.

(4) Presidential Vote Count] : The voter in Presidential elections does not effectively vote for the candidate of his choice. His vote is procedurally cast for an Elector designated for his State who supports the candidate. By reason of the allocation of Electors among the States, too many Presidents have been elected to the higher office who have, factually, lost the popular (democratic) vote. This historical procedure has evidently been inconsistent with, and violative of, the essence of democratic polity, ” one man, one vote

Our experience over the decades assures us that the above four adjustments will result in a more effective democratic system and democratic republic.

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Our frequently enunciated concerns regarding the societally negative impact of the cell phone on human interaction, by some Joycean stream of consciousness, led us to the thoughts of the man who revolutionized the Nation by his invention of wireless communication; most particularly to his apocryphal statement: “What has God wrought?”

The latter exclamation is bizarrely representative of the traditional dark cloak historically thrown over the bright light of Man’s capacity for empirical reason, and which has eternally led to atavistic strife. It would seem that, without such pretentious expression of religious modesty, a genius like Samuel Morse, successful after an arduously long course of frustrating failure, would be aware that “he”, not his culturally created deity, is to be empirically credited as the inventor.

As we have often declared, Man’s deistic attribution of natural phenomena constituted the early etiology of religious belief. The “Sun God” who seemed to die in the Fall, was, by virtue of ritualistic observances concerning the “magically green” evergreen trees, resurrected in the Spring months, together with the deciduous trees and the bunny rabbits.

It would appear that for the greater portion of the world, in one fashion or another, the “sapient” product of Evolution, adamantly clings to one form or another of “faith” in the existence of a determinant “Higher Being.” Such an empirically non-enlightened mindset has been eternal, predating the commercial days of the “Silk Road” and enduring to the contemporary genius of “Silicon Valley.”

We will readily concede certain social and individual benefits of religious belief: the spiritual salve for the fear of inevitable death, the social identification and interactive cohesion of members of society, the inspiration, and the courage often needed in trying times; however, these, admittedly salubrious benefits of societal faith in the existence of a “higher being” have historically been a proximate cause of eternaL social, disparity, prejudice, injustice and ultimately, warfare. History has eternally revealed the nuanced inclination of religious believers to aggressively seek to impose their beliefs on others; the latter, empirically, an eternal source of human suffering and tragedy.

Moreover, the historic advancement and improvement of humanity have been inarguably hobbled by the urgent need for a dogmatic answer to empirical questions; the latter best accomplished by the process of rational trial and error and human expertise, in contrast to the divination of superstitious belief. Empathic treatment of human suffering is vitally important, humanistic, and societally appropriate, but not relevantly a proper or ethical source of information.

The Earth does, indeed, travel about the Sun, despite pre-Copernicus ( pre-heliocentric) religious edict that “Man is the center of the Universe.”.

Nor are questions which are beyond the ken of the evolved human brain, those concerning outer space and planetary origin, useful or proper vehicles of construed fictional belief; Man must modestly confess to the natural limitations of his cognition and the pragmatic realization that there are no available answers to every conceivable metaphysical question.

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Numerous past writings have dealt with the blatant illegality and material harm caused by the prertnicious rule of Donald J. Trump, the latter, a demonstrated autocratic sociopath, motivated solely by an egocentric and hubristic perception of the extent of his executive authority.

The traditional American citizen has been shocked, bewildered, and intimidated by Donald Trump’s derogation of the constitutional and statutory law, as well as the societal moral compass. American citizens have been terrified by his hubristically neurotic disregard for truthful (empirical) fact, atavistic repudiation of societal propriety, and his evident lack of humanism and moral empathy; all in perceived service to his overblown neurotic aspiration for personal adulation and publicly acknowledged success.

As newly elected President, Trump appointed a Presidential Cabinet, characterized by scant qualifications for their designated governmental roles, but mandatedly evincing lemming-like, submissive loyalty to the abhorrently neurotic Chief Executive. The inappropriately bizarre nature of such dystopic appointments has resulted in domestic and international embarrassment and principled danger to the salutary navigation of our Ship of State, as lamented in copious past writings.

Regrettably, many of his policies, in addition to their adverse effect on our Nation’s economy, military security, and historically venerable standing, have been blatantly criminal. It is with reference to the illegal and criminally repulsive acts and the obedient functionaries that are thematically expressed in the present writing.

Among the many shamefully egregious policies, such as Trump’s Gestapo-like treatment of peaceful Hispanic Americans, his authoritarian prosecution of perceived political rivals, his illegal and un-American use of the military for domestic purposes, his deceitful self-enrichment, contrasted with his simultaneous elimination of food and medical relief to the poor (which we consider to be deceptively criminal) his many felonious convictions for insurrrection and treasonous behavior, we find most shockingly dystopic and criminal,. his policy of unauthorized and inhumane bombing of small, seagoing boats on the high seas, killing their cre upon the unproven supposition that they are conveying drugs from Venezuela to the United States. We are obliged to conclude that such action is an international crime, shamefully redolent of the crimes adjudicated at Nuremberg; the deliberate murder of the relevant crews. (see # M.409, “Murder at Sea”).

It is to be emphatically noted that the Nuremberg case established the humane, universal precedent that the alleged defense of “just following superior orders” was insufficient to avoid the well-deserved hanging of the guilty Nazi perpetrators. Thematically, such a casual and indifferent response is relevantly insufficient, as well as morally repugnant in established American jurisprudence.

Despite the unjust and democratically questionable ruling by SCOTUS to the effect that an America President is immune from prosecution for official actions, such a bizarre ruling, most notably, does not shield those individuals who actually perpetrated the egregious crimes against humanity, notably inclusive of the homicidal bombing of Venezuelan vessels at Defense Secretary Pete “Whack-a Mole” Hegseth’s military directive to again bomb the stricken ship to kill the floating survivors is worthy of Nurenberg reference.

America’s Code of Military Justice officially demands that servicemen do not obey patently illegal orders; a standard directive, ignored by the draft-dodging President Trump’s deluded prosecution of certain celebrated American war heroes for supporting such a legally established prohibition.

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There is a stark difference between the mystery novels, “whodunits,” of writers like Agatha Christie, ex., “Murder on the Orient Express,” and those regarding the dynamics of murder by the Trump Administration. In Agatha Christie’s stylized fiction, the killer is unknown but ultimately identified by characters such as the doughty Miss Marple or the elegant and suave Belgian detective, Hercule Poirot.

In contrast, relative to the plethora of criminal acts of Donald Trump, the criminal perpetrator is never in doubt, and the ubiquitous acts of horrific crime, bizarrely televised to the viewing public. The felonious telephone call to the Georgia Secretary of State, illegally requesting an alteration of the State’s Pfresidential vote count, the unprecedented incitement and support of a violent and bloody insurrection against the Washington Capitol Building, the illegal and seditious purloining of top secret government documents for irresponsible storage in his country club’s accessible bathroom, the improper association with foreign despots, like Putin and Orban, as well as with unsavory personalities like Jeremy Epstein and with seditious leaders of White, Christian Militas, Trump’s revealed payments of “hush money” to evade public notice of his brisk business with prostitutes. The publicly televised revelation of these and other morally reprehensible acts makes the sensitive citizen hesitant to imagine the full dumpster of Trump miscreance, “off camera.”

Of all of Trump’s malevolent, heinous, and calamitous acts, displayed on public television, his direction of the bombing of small sea-going vessels, killing their crews, is the most dramatic, and conceivably, the most demonstrative of the extent of his pathologically monarchical hubris. The deadly bombings have been condemned by legal experts as a war crime and plain murder. Notably, Trump’s alcoholic and incompetent Secretary of Defense ordered the “killing of everyone on board.”

There would appear to be scant need for the investigative services of a Miss Marple or Hercule Poirot, since the psychopathic miscreant is once more publicly identified and empirically recognizable.

It is our contemplative assumption that the leading manufacturers of cookware products remain anxious to ascertain the chemical composition of the Teflon-like substance that ubiquitously prevents overdue, appropriate repercussions for Trump’s criminal and homicidal malignity.

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