Man’s choices, we find, are initially based upon the perceptive consideration of the known, available, contrasting choices. In keeping with such empirical observation, it might be useful to compare the Nation’s venerated Chief Executive, George Washington, with the “hands down” ubiquitous choice for the worst of the category, Donald J. Trump.
It is relevant that George Washington served as the military leader of the colonial army in America’s “War for Independence,” and subsequently, refused an extended offer of monarchy, instead of being elected as the President. He proved to be enlightened enough back in the 18th-century America, to have the colonial forces inoculated against smallpox (a factor attributed by certain notable historians to its success against the British), set the stage for republicanism and the peaceful transfer of Presidential power, and presciently advised against “entangling foreign alliances.”
In honor of such superior character and faithful service, the Nation’s capital and a plethora of cities, towns, public venues, schools, bridges, and institutions bear his venerable name, together with the national currency. George Washington, one of the venerated “Founders” of our Democratic Republic, was also a spiritual avatar of its radically conceived, radical democratic future.
It is a viscerally arduous and intellectually challenging task to compare the character and record of George Washington, the acknowledged “Father of Our Country,” with the perversely neurotic, self-serving, hubristic Donald J. Trump; however, as noted above, the consideration of empirically demonstrated extremes is useful to our deliberations and ultimate choices.
“The abstract, conceivable, comparison of George Washington with the “beyond ‘the pale,” infamous and empirically cartoonish, Trump, easily yeilds a universe of difference between the historic leader of the American Colonial Army, and Trump, who. famously had\ used family influence to cause his alleged “bone spurs” in his ankle to attain the valiant status of “draft dodger,” publicly referred to the vast number of graves of soldiers at Arlington National Cemetery as “Suckers” and “Losers, ” revealingly stating,” What was in it for them?”
Unlike Washington’s solicitous concern for his army in his prescient (18th Century) program to responsibly have them inoculated against smallpox, the Trump-appointed Secretary of Health has engaged in a national policy to ban vaccination, an irresponsible dystopian policy that has already seen the reappearance of several mortally infectious diseases.
Unlike the avatar of Republican Democracy, who famously refused his country’s invitation to be a King, Trump has publicly declared his intention to rule as a “Dictator,” such an un-American intention evinced in his voter denial, disregard of the Constitutional tri-partite architecture, Separation of Powers,” declaring war and tariffs without mandated Congressional approval, interference with the right to vote, astronomical violation of the “Emolument Clause.” enriching himself and family, use of the military for perceived domestic need (posse comitatus) raising and generously supporting a private, masked army to arrest and deport innocent, law-abiding Hispanic emigrees,.
The potential choice of the Nation’s Chief Executive resides eternally with the voter.
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