Based on a multitude of empirical grounds, not the least of which is the National groundswell of opposition to the Trump autocratic policies, we are confident in the surgical excision of that orange, toxic excrescence at the next Presidential election, November 2029; the scheduled surgical procedure cannot come fast enough.
Similar to the recent scourge of the COVID-19 pandemic, the thematically painful political experience is capable, nonetheless, of universally instilling an empirical lesson; one, relative to the eternal vulnerability of our Democratic Republic, notably, in light of its significant number of inadequately educated and poorly informed citizens. Democratic existential pragmatic measures must now be taken, such as the mandatory vetting of all Presidential nominees and the constitutional and statutory elimination of “gerrymandering” and, notably, the Electoral College, so that each vote has an identical impact, in sync with the criteria of a true democracy.
The democratic selection of a competent and representative candidate as Chief Executive is the principal goal of the Republic, and any blurring or filtering of the popular vote mitigates principle. With the pragmatic selection of fit candidates and the unsullied computation of votes, the truly democratic nature of our Nation, as intended by the Founders, will be assured; and no repetition of the pernicious Trump-engendered dystopia will prevail.
Until such surgical incision and the period of convalescence, however, it cannot be justly said that the insalubrious and painful experience of the Trump Presidency has, conceivably, served no beneficial purpose, regardless of, or perhaps by reason of, its nightmarish quality. The Nation has, indeed, learned an existential lesson as to the vulnerability of a nation, “by and for the People,” by mandating a responsible approval and acceptance of all Presidential candidates, in light of the potential tragedy of another Trump-like malefactor.
“Wisdom through suffering” is the articulated, philosophical theme of the Classic Greek playwrights, and it is our view that the American public has, by reason of the experienced pain and suffering during the Trump dystopia, learned to accept the wise lesson of the empirical vulnerability of a Democratic Republic. For this eternal knowledge, acquired through personal suffering, we are obliged to give kudos and appropriate credit to the ancient playwrights: Sophocles, Euripides, and Aeschylus, and then move on to a notably wiser National recuperation and restoration of our traditional posture as an aspiring avatar of universal human liberty and equality.
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