Blog # M. 256 (poesie) BENEATH THE BLUE AGERATUM

The soil curates small slips of man
His life, his work, his resume
Some petit detritus of his life
A library of tales again retold.


No need to search with system code
Items are best secured by chance
With lucky use of spade and rake
Close searched where man did live and die.


A rusty nail, a piece of tool
Both witnesses to man’s resolve,
To raise a shelter for repose.
A fragment of a printed page,
Reveals a ken that there’s yet more.
Old cans and jars and rusty spoons,
Betoken victory over want
And man’s resolve to live out life.


The grassy fields are seen as doors,
Enclosing bits of lives past lived-
Far better than the research “App,”
With cold results in digit code!


-p. ( Leonard N. Shapiro, August, 2016)

Blogpost # M.255 THE MAGIC WAND

It would appear that the medieval magic wand of Merlin has transmogrified, over the ages to to a modern form, the black velvet-tipped “Sharpie,” now wielded by an Orange Sorcerer, aided by his Apprentices, a/k/a: “The Muskrats.” This modern iteration of the medieval Magic Wand in the hands of the contemporary Sorcerer, evinces power, far beyond that demonstrated in the days of King Arthur.In the hands of this evil Sorcerer, under the surreptitious claim of “eliminating “waste, fraud, and abuse,” has wreaked such a degree of evil that mere contemplation and obligatory acceptance are as analogously difficult as swallowing bite-size stones. Such arbitrary and reductive evil practiced by the Sorcerer and his Apprentices is egregious and devastating, both, procedurally and substantive. It may be useful to examine both categories.

[Procedural irregularity]: The creation and alteration of governmental departments are the legally designated office of the elected legislature, i.e., Congress. The prudent and pragmatic procedure involves the conduct of an investigation regarding the \ function of the proposed, or existing, department, followed by a hearing (often public) and a conclusive determination by the designated Committee. The results are thereafter reported back to the Legislature for appropriate action.

No such orderly and legal prerequisite has been observed by the evil Sorcerer; only the quick, regally assertive action of his magic wand, viz., the black, velvet-tipped “Sharpie.” Observably, this demonstration of the purely arbitrary power of the orange Sorcerer is as egregiously irregular as it is societally devastating (as will be shown). The uninformed, ignorant, reductive exercise of sophomoric impulse, by the egoistic Sorcerer with the egotistical flourish of the omnipotent wand has had empirically devastating societal results.

[Substantive harm] The uninformed, arbitrary elimination of key governmental departments by such neurotically assertive flourish of the magic wand, has, in addition to the irresponsible and hurtful discharge of countless dedicated federal civil servants, resulted in the serious handicapping of the proper functioning of the Nation. Such previously existing utilitarian] entities had been needfully established and had been engaged in the traditional performance of vitally necessary governmental functions and humanistic services; including the furnishing of food, and medical assistance where desperately needed, domestically and internationally.. The latter, in addition to its empathic purpose, has the significant, additional office, internationally, of, what is termed, “soft diplomacy.

The baselessly cruel and insensitive elimination of USAID, which had been furnishing desperately needed food and medicine to needy third world countries, the elimination of the Department of Education, the FAA, the health research facilities of the NIH, plus, the foolhardy and hazardous elimination of NOA, the EPA, and other existentially vital agencies; in addition to the financial handicapping of necessary agencies such as Transportation, the IRA, the IRS, Small Business administration, HUD, Department of the Interior, and sadly and worrisomely, countless more.

The populist meme, “Make America Great Again,” (MAGA) is easily seen as tactically deceitful and propagandic (analogously deceitful as the empirically discredited “Right to Life” misnomer). The greatest and most valuable resource of a Nation is its people. The elimination of resources impacting citizen education and development, health, safety, and welfare (most egregiously in the arbitrary and egotistical desire to demonstrably wield power) is a toxic impediment to America’s true “Greatness,” and a metastatic danger to its endurance.

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Blogpost # M.254 VIRTUE, THE INSIDE STORY (redux)

In these dispiriting times where observable personal interest overrides aspirational considerations of responsibility and humanistic empathy, we have elected to reprise our views on the metaphysical source of interpersonal virtue and plain old goodness. We find ourselves besieged with news and observed experiences of self-interest, and lack of personal empathy for the feelings and well-being of others; notably exemplified by the media’s quotidian demonstration of the disgraceful behavior of our political representatives.

The metaphysical origins and lifelong curation of humanistically moral behavior are tied to our life experience and our accumulated development of a self-image. It has been our understanding that one’s self-image, ultimately, is the resultant product of our societal interactions and accumulated reactions to our perception of, and by others. The nuanced self-image, so developed, is our referential guide to our behavior.

Sophomorically construed, ineffective programs of rewards and punishment programs are haplessly practiced in raising children and, at relevant times, in a futile attempt to encourage perceived moral rectitude in contemporaries. As will be further elucidated below, positive moral choices, to be meaningful, must, appropriately be founded upon an intrinsic, inner direction. Actions motivated by reward, or refrained from, for fear of punishment, whether earthly or “heavenly,” can be morally evaluated as behavioral quid-pro-quo; performed with a self-interested motivation; and, accordingly, not qualified to be seen as performed on moral principle. Moral action based upon anticipated reward is tactical, not morally mandated; antisocial acts, refrained from execution, solely in fear of punishment, are self-interested and prudent, but not based upon moral principle. Only inner-directed moral choices merit valid humanistic kudos. We will elucidate by a previously written, hypothetical example.

If I were foolish and selfish enough, in a rare moment of confused intention, to steal the reader’s wallet; then, the following day, ruefully return the wallet with apologies such as “Please forgive me, I do not know what possessed me, I may be the recipient of your charitable response, “Dont worry, we will forget all about it.” However, I am not able to recollectively forget it. thinking, analytically, “What kind of person am I, to have stolen the wallet in the first place?” The valid source and appropriate dynamics of our sense of morality are our developed and referable self-image and not the consideration of external consequences.

It is our confident declaration that the plethora of exhibited miscreant behavior on the part of individuals, notably, those in politics, is based on the insalubrious absence of a maturely developed, humanistic self-image. It is only, (if ever,) that Mankind universally develops such a referable moral self-image, that he will be enabled to eschew repugnant inclinations and behavior, such as are daily demonstrated, by the Trump-MAGA adherents.

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Blogpost # M. 253 “TATS”

The Trump Administration recently announced the arrest and summary deportation of hundreds of Venezuelan immigrants, apparently based upon unproven allegations of criminality, under the guise of the “Alien Enemies Act” of 1789. It is, however, indisputable that the archaic Statute is relevant solely in times of war and respecting the Nation’s enemies.

The extrajudicial, and unconstitutional event was shockingly redolent of the Hitler regime in the 1930s, in that it was conducted in an arbitrary, fascistic manner, employing Gestapo-style, strong-arm tactics and without due process. The Venezuelan immigrants were arrested, manhandled, handcuffed, shackled, and head-shaved, without the benefit of the usual and appropriate procedure of, legally stated, valid charges, indictment, right of attorney, and a fair trial by an impartial jury, as mandated by our Nation’s criminal law strictures, and with the initial assumption of “innocent until proven guilty, beyond a reasonable doubt.”

Such autocratic, fascistic, and shockingly Kafka-like action of the Trump Administration and its ersatz “Storm Troopers,” ICE, set off a tectonic shock to mainstream American citizens, traditionally imbued with the governmental procedures of due process under the law; Constitutional and Statutory Law. Instead of the mandatory application of the Nation’s equitable criminal procedure, the reductive determination of prima facie guilt was summarily concluded by the ubiquitous presence of tattoos on the arrested individuals. Notably, and, perhaps, relevantly, the only empirically identifiable tattoos are those burnt into the arms of those we have encountered who are the singular survivors of the Jewish death camps in Europe during the Second World War.

In addition to the absence of any rational determination of guilt, the abhorrent procedure was shockingly and distastefully redolent of the arrest of German Jews by the Gestapo in 1930’s Germany, easily identified by their mandatory wearing of a sewn “Star of David” on their outside apparel; and the determined and painful cry, of the survivors, “Never Again!” Such a Gestapo atmosphere has no acceptable place in our Democratic Republic, albeit the election of an egoistic, amoral, self-described “Dictator For One Day.”

Two slim but welcome rays of hope dispelled the dark hopelessness of the event. The first was the judicial grant of an injunction against this atavistic evil procedure by a responsible and dedicated Federal Judge, and the second was the notable relief experienced when Chief Justice Roberts of the U.S. Supreme Court denied the Administration’s absurdly autocratic-based application to sanction (“impeach”) the dedicated jurist who granted the injunction.

We cannot refrain from noting the telling fact that the Presidential Cabinet’s new Secretary of Defense, irrespective of his known toxic alcoholism, sexual abuse and lack of experience was, nonetheless, selected by Donald Trump to oversee the ubiquitous and vital operations of the Pentagon, the Army, the Navy, Airforce, Marines and other existentially significant Federal and State services, has publically revealed numerous emphatically expressed, large body tattoos, emblematic of his adamant support of White, Christian Militias, the latter inarguably constituting an ongoing serious threat to our Democracy.

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Blogpost # M. 252 PROMISES TO KEEP*

In one of his early writings, the classical (16th Century) French essayist, Montaigne observed that being a liar mandates a good memory. Presumably, the rationale is based upon the facile and ready reference to objectively referable truth, but the false declaration must be assiduously recalled in the interest of consistency.

Montaigne’s pragmatic declaration has singular application to our contemporary Head of State, whose many aberrative statements, singularly merit the attainment of an Olympic gold medal relative to the sport of serial mendacity. Donald Trump, inarguably qualifies as the protagonist in the wry response to the question, “How do you know when he is lying?” The answer: “When he is moving his lips.”

Montaigne’s statement was metaphysically insightful and is relevant today, as demonstrated by President Trump’s plethora of false promises and tactical undertakings in empirical confirmation of the justification for the above-referenced gold medal in mendacity. The orange Prevaricator-in-Chief has demagogically asserted his intention to promote efforts to improve and/or reform ubiquitous matters of current concern. To stay within the permissible dimensional bounds of the traditional “blog post,” we,complyinglyfurnish a representative, but not complete list: Lower prices and elimination of inflation, instant peace in Ukraine and Gaza, protect Social Security and Medicaid, improve relations with NATO and foreign countries, improve trade relations with foreign nations, and -Stamp out the politicization of government ( viz., fictional ideation of”Deep State”).

Trump’s actual performance has evinced a holocaust of deceitful non-performance, and, in fact a deprecation of such falsely made representations as would make appropriate, an empirically accurate reading of “MAGA” to now be, “Make Americans ‘Grate’ Again! “

In sum, prices and inflation have increased, employment has plummeted, the latter in part due to the wrecking ball Trump and his exotic menagerie of “Muskrats” have illegally taken to demolish needed governmental agencies, such as social security and Medicaid, as well as his curtailment of medical research, politicization of governmental law enforcement and intelligence agencies so that opponents of Donald Trump have been designated for criminal prosecution, relations, deterioration  of America’s international political and trade relationships, threats to social security and Medicaid and, predictably, no peace has been attained in Ukraine or Gaza.

In a later essay, Montaigne warns against people who “out of private obligation,” (personal interest) espouse an unworthy Monarch above the public interest. In the five centuries since Montaigne, history shows that the players and scenery have changed, but, unlike the stereotypical prevaricator, the drama has been eternally consistent.

-p.

  • Reference: “Robert Frost, (1923) “Stopping by Woods” [ viz., “…promises to keep,,,”]

Blogpost # 251 THE LETHARGY PANDEMIC

Many credible explanations have been presented concerning the etiology of the present dystopic state of our Republican Democracy. One cogent proposition is the irresponsible and inadequately justified decision by the Supreme Court in the Taxpayer’s Union case, eliminating limitations on corporate political contributions. The latter, ruling, significantly aggravated the threat to democracy already posed by the eternally undemocratic influence of money. Other attributed causes, social and political, have been proposed as empirically causative. However, Insufficient attention has been paid to populist apathy and detachment from matters of relevant principle in favor of those offering reductively perceived as specifically relevant in their mundane experience or those promising superficial diversion.

Our hierarchy of precipitant causes of the presenting, pathology suffered by our body politic is predominated by the uninformed, lassisitude of many self-indulgent citizens more concerned with matter so ethereal as an athelete crossing a designated white line and scoring a “touchdown” or the successful drive of a hockey puck or a soccor ball into a net. The most profound deliberation by much of our population, disappointingly, is that expended in the purchase of an automobile.

The late, brilliantly lyrical holocaust survivor, Elie Weisel, on an analogous subject, said, “The opposite of love is not hate, it is indifference.” The mainstream American citizen has empirically and painfully learned that the most formidable threat to our Democratic Republic is not foreign espionage but National disinterest and its consequence of disaffected vulnerability. We attribute the rise of Trump and the MAGA horde to the consequential failure engendered by smug and reductive assumptions by many thoughtless American citizens of an infinity of status quo of the singular, precious liberty and democracy in America.

The thoughtless perception of invulnerability thoughtlessly eschews all consideration of possible threat, aside, conceivably, from the remote possibility of an attack against our Nation. They precariously ignore the imminence of its eternally more possible domestic vulnerability. Discussions at backyard barbeques and coffee shops are more likely on the Superbowl, the World Series, or local real estate taxes and events, to the exclusion of matters of governmental or civic import. It is revealingly and embarrassingly instructive to recall that Donald Trump received his existential public notice as a host of a widely viewed, banal television game show.

It is notably obvious that there exists no vaccine for this widely metastasized and consequential pandemic of toxic indifference. We would reprise the prescient observation of one of our esteemed founders, Thomas Jefferson, that the success of a democracy is dependant upon an informed and concerned citizenry, thus, generously supplying us with the presented theme.

We, acknowledge the existence of several principal causes, of the present political dilemma, viz., money in politics, the moral decline of SCOTUS, the presence of an unhealthily large population of populist, underbelly and eternally aggrevied citizens, vulnerable to demagogic snake oil promises of retribution against society, the pathological polluting corporations interested in profits and disinterested in human health and the presence of adverse foreign inflence. However, it is our principal view that, bizarrely, little or nothing has been relevantly observed regarding the quality of our citizenry, the combustible raw material existential to the present conflagration.

-p.

Blogpost # M. 250 GOING WORDING AGAIN [redux]

It might be a relief to take another brief “time out” from the roadkill aesthetics of Trumpian politics and get to our preferred subject: words and their employment. This mini-essay is intended to be relevant to those judicious individuals who, creditably, still employ language rather than inexpressive digital exchange.

Employing language that effectively and satisfyingly expresses our thoughts requires the selection of appropriate vocabulary. Consistent with this tautologically basic principle, we have always suffered reservations about the ubiquitous reliance upon a thesaurus as a general source of meaningful expression. The thesaurus is a source of relevant synonyms but not a reliable guide to the writer’s intended expression. It is our experience that there are very few legitimately contextual synonyms, i.e., “hot” is not a valid synonym for “torrid.” The cup of tea or the bath water may be “hot,” whereas the exotic female dancer may be described with the adjectivial word, “torrid;” “sharp” may be colloquelly utilized to signify “aware,” or “intelligent.” but is equally utilitarian in the eval;uation of a freshly ground blade, Words may have ubiquitious application but may not be aesthetically accurate to convey a singular feeling or meaning. Effective communication mandates the selection of words that are validly expressive of the intended message.

As an illumination of our theme, we offer a representative sample of frequently heard words ubiquitiously used without consideration of their traditional meaning:

[“So”] is a word universally employed in television news media as a precursor to an interviewee’s response to a question posed by the show’s host. The accepted use of the word, nevertheless, connotes a resultant fact or action following a consequential event or statement. not a spoken predicate to a response. The inappropriate use of a verbally dynamic connection between cause and effect is bizarre and annoying.

[“Absolutely”] The use of this confident assertion of ultimate and metaphysical confirmation, is ludicrios overkill when employed in lieu of the simple “yes.”

[“No worries”] is a popular, non-contextual, inappropriate expression in an exotic represention of the simple response, “Thank you!” We find the misused, comforting expression confusing, as well as situationally inappropriate.

[“Cool”]: This word, acceptingly referencing the existence of low or moderate temperature, used as a populist expression of consent, or consonance, may be the most prevalent word in ourb populist lexicon. Such contextually exotic terms may be disconcerting to the uninitiated and ambiguously confusing.

[“Back in the day”]: A purportedly authoritative declaration about the past, with scant historic specification, but the general, inane reference, “Back in the day,” indicates a genuine lack of knowledge or, conceivably, an unwillingness to be usefully informative.

[“Dude”] This lazy, off-hand reference to a specific person is objectionable and notably revelatory of today’s unfortunate absence of individualized personality.

[“Chill out”] is an unfeeling, non-empathic recommendation to a person who is suffering or uncomfortably worried and is expressive of lack of empathic concern. Words of understanding would be more humanistic.

[“Whatever!”] This brash response to an opinion or statement is an egregious insult and an arrogantly unkind dismissive, usually uttered in a nuanced tone of annoyed impatience. The word’s appropriate meaning is quite the opposite; properly used, it is an affirmative and generous statement of a party’s free choice.

We are confident that the reader can cite other illustrative examples of such ubiquitously used jargon.

To be clear, we do not maintain that the use of such populist expressions is immoral or wrongful, but we do find them to constitute an unsuitable waste of opportunity to speak meaningfully in a personally nuanced fashion at a time in our societal history when personal conversation, unhappily, has become rare.

-p.

Blolgpost # M. 249 ORANGE NARCISSUS [redux]

We have empirically confirmed the accuracy of our earlier perception of Donald Trump as an archaic, pre-octoginarian stereotype of a lifelong “infant terrible”; an insecure toddler who, despite the predictability of retributive punishment, kicks his mother in the shins to further his insatiable desire for personal attention.

It is empirically indisputable that the orange narcissus has never, in his neurotic 78 years of life, evinced any political or doctrinal sentiment. He has been dynamically and exclusively motivated by his preoccupation with himself, amounting to a neurotically insatiable desire for significance and adoration. Our observation seems to be an empirically satisfactory explanation for the etiology of his abnormal aberrant behavior. both socially and of far greater impact, politically. While it is rationally impossible to ascribe any philosophical or political motive underlying his aberrant, unsocietal, and amoral presentation, it is undeniably clear that his neurotic aspirations fuel his public perception of God-like significance and universal admiration. Sometimes, he doubtlessly perceives, you have to “kick shins’ to get there; by befriending notorious (but flattering) National enemies, inculcate and support a national insurrection or perversely declare to a Nation known for its singular and unprecedented democracy, his radical intent, if democratically elected, to be a “Dictator.”

It is truly ironic to be empirically driven to the conclusion that the complete absence of cognitive detection, in favor of his singularly neurotic drive for public adoration and independent significance, that fuels his erratic and rationally impulsive acts and his statements, all of which can be empirically and anologically deemed to have the motivation of a misbehaving child’s ( “un infant terrible”) constant qauest for universal notice and palpable significance.

It is our view that this perceptive understanding accounts for many of the disturbingly unsolvable dilemmas surrounding this erratic persona. His uniformity of action, evincing antisocial behavior and lack of societal morality, may be the flypaper to which our significantly large population of eternally dissatisfied underbelly populists adhere. The glaring impotence of the many able Republican members of Congress to act reasonably to prevent Trump from destroying our Democratic Republic may be explainable by their inability to comprehend Trump in his non-stereotypical role of partisan President, but, as a sui generis abnormality, dynamically analogous to performing actors on stage but without a script.

As expressed in our earlier writing, it is sophomoric and irrelevantly inappropriate to counter Trump with rationally engaging, responsible, and traditionally established argument, even to the extent of tautological reality. Such an ongoing contextual approach has been noticeably feckless and inapposite.

Donald Trump is a dangerous and hazardous anomaly to the existence of our uniquely rational and just American aspirations and way of life, This dilemma is a notable affirmation of our often expressed recommendation that all Presidential Candidates (like applicants for mundane employment), as a prerequisite to run for the highest and most consequential office in the World, be thoroughly vetted by an appropriately designated procedure.
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Blogpost # M. 248 “DINNERGATE”

Because of its singular significance, the regular bi-monthly meeting of the Wistful Vista Virtue Ass’n, LLC, was not, as usual, convened at the local High School gym but in the intimate and ornate living room of its longtime President, Elvira T. Swine. Its loyal members were in full attendance at this Special Meeting, which, as is customary, included its Recording Secretary, Romona Sue Epicac, and its Spiritual Adviser, Rev. Yono Say, of Wistful Vista’s ” Church of Blind Faith.”

It may be recalled that the dedicated censorship group was the recent recipient of an Certificated of Honor honored, from the National Censors and Bookburner’s Association, for its dedicated watchdog efforts regarding the WistfulVista Public Library, successfully eliminating lewd and lascivious literature such as, “Huckelberry Finn,” “Wuthering Heights,” “Puss in Boots,” Uncle Tom’s Cabin and “Gone with the Wind.” The organization had, in fact, been so idealistically dedicated to their duty to enforce proper standards of religious and political morality as, to its credit, eliminated no less than fifty percent of the inventory of books of the public library to proudly, evince entirely bare, but inargubly inoffensive bookshelves.

After taking attendance and following a brief but morally cogent address by the Reverend Yono Say, Ms. Swine, officially called the Special Meeting to order and introduced the guest speaker, Ms. I.P. Daley, from the “Venerable Guardians of Literary Virtue,” to speak on the urgent subject of restaurant and diner menus; the same being surreptitiously employed by malefasctors as a tactically subtle medium for the perpetration of smut and meretricious language which was in violation of societal morality and acceptable values. Ms. Imogene passionately pleaded for the comprehensive moral scrutiny of all publically accessible menus from the local area’s restaurants, diners, and “Mom-and-Pop” coffee shops.

As a utilitarian guide, Ms. Daly handed out to the energized attendees a compiled list of illustrative recommendations for moral censorship, accumulated from two years of intensive study and ubiquitous investigation by her watchdog organization, with brief explanations, including possible indications of unacceptable double entendre or a syllable constituting a suggestive moral offense. She candidly admitted that the list of offensive menu lexicon was significantly limited for practical reasons, but nevertheless, of utility as a pragmatic guide in the conduct of their morally responsible duty. The list follows:

(A) BREAKFAST MENU: Coddled eggs [too intimate], Deviled eggs, Stewed prunes [suggestive of intoxication], Date-nut bread, Cinnamon ( phon.,”Sinner Man?], Hot Cakes, French Toast, Fruit Cake [sugg. insanity], Lox [i.e., sexual bondage or sadsistic restraints], ” [ lascivious], hot” cereal [ suggests, laced with illegal drugs or stimulants].

(B) LUNCH MENU: Smoked tongue, [immoral], Chicken Fingers [sugg. masturbation], Weiners [Freudian], suckling pig, Chinese Poo-Poo platter [suggests excrement], Devil Dogs, fresh turkey breast, [ female anatomical reference], Meat balls [sugg. alt. “beef orbs”], Fruit salad, Fruit bites, fruit cake, [ former adjective may suggest their preparation by homosexuzals] Crabs, [ disagreable male hygene], Greek Salad [salacious meal, eaten during prohibited male sex].

(C) DINNER MENU: Pot roast, potted chicken,” chicken pot pie, or, potted” anything [possible marijuana reference], Strip steak, Pork butt, Chicken fingers, Black and White cookies, Bone-in Tenderloin, horrific suggestion of violent intertcourse], French fries, Cheesecake [“nude photos”], Matzoh Balls, [poss. (Hebrew) anatomical reference], peas, [ tasteless, low-brow bathroom language].

It appeared to be one o’clock, lunchtime, and the inspired and dedicated members, with lists in hand, pens, notebooks, and where needed, polished their eyeglasses and resolutely rushed out to the local “Wistful Vista Diner” for lunch and, more cogently, menu investigation.

-p.

Blogpost # M. 247 MORE NEWTONIAN REACTIONS

This writing is an extension of the immediately preceding, “ISAAC NEWTON, ‘SUPERHERO,” ( # M.246), which expresses a felt assurance that there is a Newtonian corresponding and equal reaction for every action, empirically inclusive of political matters. We related our analogical extension of this physical theory to he conception of the perverse, destructive “wrecking ball” being employed by Donald J. Trump to savage and destroy America’s traditionally democratic institutions and way of life. By such analogy, the predictable backswing of the instrument of demolition, as evidenced by the many protests at Town Halls, the recently rteported plethora of judicial determinations, blocking much of Trumo’s autocratic mischief and, as stated in an earlier writing, engendering a growing, “Buyer’s Remorse” (# M.228).

It is our view that a significant reversal of sentiment (“reaction”) will predictably evolve (if not already extant) from the MAGA, loyalist and reductionist sentiment to a foundationally based concern relative to Trump’s favorable policies toward Russia’s Putin, notably adverse, to the American Nation and to their derivative identity and interest as American citizens.

The ubiquitous feelings of patriotism and personal loyalty to our American Nation have historically overridden the varied confluence of human societal (non-familial) loyalties. We have written of the dedicated actions of the American citizens in support of our military during times of war. Such willing, supportive action by the American citizenry during the Second World War was signified by the many schoolchildren, eschewing play to dedicatedly collect,, in their small wagons needed materials such as rubber and iron for the American War effort. Adults volunteered their free time as Air Raid Wardens, purchased “War Bonds,” and made contributions to the USO despite times of hard-to-get money. Political, religious, and ethnic sentiments of diversity, by ubiquitious patriotic sentiment, became clearly subservient to the defense of our Democratic Nation against the aggressive and threatening fascist enemies.

In sync with the experience of American history, we confidently await the exercise of a marked negative response (a Newtonian “reaction”) impellked by America’s systemic instinct to personally value national identity ahead of temporal political sentiment and affirmatively object to the present pro-Russia (Putin) schemata of Donald Trump and, ultimately, his deceitful MAGA trope [which, in truth, should empircally stand for the factual meme, “Make America Autocratic Again.”]

In less dystopic times, it would be difficult to sell a movie script whose scenario featured a protagonist, successfully elected to the American presidency, despite numerous criminal indictments, inclusive of, sexual abuse, fraud, inciting an insurrection, bearing thirty-four felony convictions, who trashes the Constitution and the Rule of Law, undermines the doctrinal “Separation of Powers,” grossly violates the “Emolument Clause,” champions White Nationalist Supremacy organizations and actively opposes existential environmental efforts by withdrawing from the Paris Accords and propagating the noxious meme, “drill, baby drill, and further, who is an egomaniac, guilty of serial mendacity and the declaration to the citizens of the Dem0cratic Republic of his intent to be a “Dictator. Notwithstanding the above bizarrely accepted traits, Trump’s disloyalty to the Nation, we feel, will affirmatively produce the needed (Newtonian responsive) reaction of rejection.

Trump’s presidential campaign was officially proven to have been assisted by Russia, the American public has astonishingly witnessed Trump’s intimate affair with Russia’s tyrant, Putin, Trump’s secretive purloining of top-secret governmental documents, more recently, his schizophrenic declaration that Ukraine was the aggressor regarding the factually true, unprovoked Russian assault, his reduction of existential military equipment and monetary support for that beleaguered, wrongfully assaulted nation, his verbasl “mugging of it’s admirable, democratically elected President, Trump’s emasculating of America’s intelligence facilities, augmented by the selection of a Cabinet member in charge of intelligence who is an admirer of Putin, his emasculation of the CIA and the FBI, all point to Trump’;p disloyalty to our Nation; in favor of a perverse and traitorous alliance with our cold war enemy, Russia and its wiley, murderous head of State, Trump’s ionamorata, Vladymir Putin.

Notwithstanding the populist tolerance for Trump’s egregious amorality and egoistic incapability, we would predict that his demonstrated disloyalty to the American Nation will, at long last, produce the “reaction” of consummately appropriate rejection.

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