When one refers to “Democracy,” they speak of the salubrious governmental recognition of the will of the citizenry, in the dynamic context of a Nation governed “by, and for the People.” It was the style of polity that the Framers of the Constitution intended, and its ultimate perfection, an aspirational goal since the nation’s advent. i.
Incongruently, the attainment of such a salubrious goal empirically appears to be dependent upon the mundane dynamics of arithmetic, rather than the idealistic principle of just governance. In a Nation affording to every mature citizen the equal franchise of the vote, the salubrious existence of governmental”Democracy” is existentially dependent upon the ultimate demonstrative (i.e., arithmetical) decision of the voters. Songs of praise about the virtues of freedom and democracy which must be adequately resonant and ultimately effective to be determinative.
As famously instructed by Jefferson and Franklin, the successful endurance of a Democratic Republic is dynamically contingent upon the educational quality of its citizenry; Thomas Jefferson famously observed that the success of a democratic style of government is dependent upon the level of literacyand political awareness of the citizenry; Franklin, in a memorable response to the question, “What kind of government have you created?” replied, “A Republic, if you can keep it.”
Unless a sufficiently determinative number of voters express their desire for democratic governance, less representative modes of rule, inclusive of atavistic autocracy, will prevail. Thus, it must be conceded that, from a metaphysically dynamic viewpoint, the empirically procedural (arithmetical) element relative to the choice of polity is pragmatically more relevant than the avowed, conceptual nature of its substantive features.
Accordingly, we have often quoted the admonition of Thomas Jefferson that the successful duration of a Democratic Republic requires a literate and informed citizenry, and the admonition of fellow Founder, Benjamin Franklin, who, in response to the question, “What kind of a government have you created ? ” famously, replied, “A Republic, if you can keep it!”
Together, presumably, with most mainstream American citizens, we would principally condemn the dangerous, dystopic policies of the miscreant Trump Administration; the latter, contextually elected by a populist majority of voters, evincing insufficient education and thus hampered by limited judgment. Such aberrant elevation of Donald J. Trump to the Oval Office amounted to the election of a delusional, incompetent, and amoral Chief Executive, who, with the dystopian compliance of his selected menagerie of loyal, but “Mad Hatter,” Cabinet Ministers, has been successful in conflating the Nation’s traditionally avowed goals and shamefully deflating its historically venerable standing,
It is empirically diagnostic that the publicly declared, “would be dictator,” as part of his initial autocratic program, programmatically set about to toxically destroy empirical “truth” with his pernicious demogogic preaching of “alternative facts,” attacked the educational integrity of the Nation’s institutions of higher education, together with the Nation’s institutes of science, including those relative to citizen health, its pragmatic ally needed civil service, along with elective and other civil rights, and the psychopathic discomtinuance of its programs of National and International empathy.
The ignorant underbelly of the Nation, selfishly financed by the profit-making, anti-regulation, air- polluting industrial enterprises, combined to elect their perceived, long=awaited, redeemer. Not unlike “Lemmings” haplessly led, en masse, to the precipice of their ultimately lethal cliff, the cultural saga of MAGA is a grim tale fueled by misguided ignorance.
We have been greatly heartened to observe the recent huge public outrage of the Nation against the cruel, autocratic, and often ignorantly damaging actions of the Trump Administration and are principally convinced that the Nation, steeped in the tradition of freedom and equality, must continue to publicly and articulatedly express its repulsion at the arbitrary, neurotic, and miscreant acts of the perverse Trump Administration. However, such temporally righteous reactions, while affirmingly appropriate, are not equivalent to the administration of an effective vaccination nor the harbingers of ultimate immunity from toxic political disease to which a free society is eternally vulnerable.
The pansacea is in the salubrious establishment of an improved and universal emphasis on the quality of citizen education and joint, mutual involvement in the enterprise of a healthy, citizen-affirming polity, where relationships, differences in physical appearance, sexual orientation, and foundational beliefs are recognized, but not judgmental.
We have also relevantly recommended the non-partisan vetting of candidates for the American Presidency.
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