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Mainstream America, with sufficient reason, finds itself in a state of fearful apprehension concerning the contemporaneous threat to the endurance of their cherished Democratic Republic. The election of an errant President who has declared his intention to be an autocratic “dictator” and has ubiquitously demonstrated the sincerity of his perverse ambition is an empirical source of dread. Donald Trump’s shocking denigration of the Constitution, lack of moral compass, and blatant, ubiquitous transgressions of the societal rule of law. his bosom friendship with Russia’s Vladymir, his declared, personal avatar of proper governance, Hungary’s tyrant, Viktor Orban, and stated admiration for the North Korean tyrant, Kim Jun Un, evince his dystopic criteria for appropriate governance.

Consistent with his brash declaration of intent to be a dictator, Donald J. Trump, in the first few weeks of his term, has taken tactical steps to undermine American democracy. As illustration is his selection of radically inappropriate, members of his Cabinet as demonstration, inclusive of the Bureaus of Intelligence, viz., the CIA, the FBI, the Secretaries of Defense, Interior, Foreign Relations, Homeland Security, Health, and the other official posts. None of the selected officials possesses a modicum of ability nor the functional experience requisite to their respective office but qualify by satisfying his mandatory requirement of unfailing loyalty.

Trump has unprecedentedly and bizarrely, wedded his elected office as America’s elected Chief of State to an unelected, quirky, billionaire, autistic-savant, to advise and assist as “hit man,” in his irrational delusion that the myriad, specialized federal agencies, together with with their large staffs of employees, ipso facto, represent governmental “waste and abuse.” He has taken irresponsible measures to eliminate them, despite their inarguable utility, domestic and international.

Consistent with such reductive and dystopic ideation, such delusional autocrat together with his unelected, impish, billionaire confederate, have taken steps to imasculate the Nation’s vitally important agencies, inclusive of Defense, and National Intelligence, Education and Medical research agencies, the Inspectors General and has quashed citizen -oriented protective regulations, pardoned seditious and criminally convicted insurrectionists, denounced all salutary environmental programs in favor of “drill, baby drill, taken steps to dismantle all governmental humanistic enterprises, foreign and domestic, such as USAID (the latter, providing urgently needed food and medicines to desperate nations such as Ethiopia) and has expressed his domestic intention to limit or extinguish America’s salutory Social Security and Medicaid programs. Additionally repugnant and pathological are his cruel policies regarding immigration, his articulated, gradiose and notably demented intention to annex the Sovereign Nation of Cansada, to acquire Denmark’s Greenland, retake Panama, and rename the Gulf of Mexico, the “Gulf of America.” Bewilderingly,. the mutually peace-assuring confederation with other peace-loving nations and NATO have been Trump-discombobulated. Trump’s love affair with the crafty Russian tyrant, Putin, has been further enhanced by Trump’s schizophrenic declaration that Ukraine invaded Russia. The American mainstream citizen has appropriate justification to perceive such policies and deludional ideations as destructive and entertain relevant feelings of sheer, primitive fright in response. The Orange delinquent executive is also hell-bent on ignorantly eliminating the Nation’s salutory public media.

Trump’s emphatic campaign promises included assurances of an improvement in the economy by the lowering of inflation and consumer prices and by increasing employment. None of these “snake oil” assurances have been realized, the inarguable result of his skewed policies. Indeed, notably negative results have been objectively noted. merely in the first weeks of his present term in office. Inflation and consumer prices have been elevated and predictably will be further inflated by his program of ill-advised tariffs. Employment statistics currently demonstrate an observable decline, predictably aggravated by Trump’s reductively ignorant elimination of established, utilitarian governmental agencies and thousands of their employees.

America needs, deserves, and, in fact, affirmatively has readily available a “Superhero” to rescue it from this hazardous National conundrum. Mainstream American citizens are eternally in possession of the contemplsative opportunity to obtain desperately needed relief from the contextual political conundrum. The relevant “Superhero” from whom such wisdom and consequent utilitarian relief may be obtained is the 18th-century polymath Isaac Newton, whose most famous declaration furnishes the needed assurance of relief in its societally, empirically, analogous contemplation.

Newton enlightened all humankind by his declaration that:”For every action, there is a respectively equivalent re-action.”

The arc of the Trump-MAGA institutional wrecking ball, visibly and destructively applied to the institutes and principles of our Democratic Republic, irrefutably carries with it the expressed Newtonian dynamic of an imminent return swing. By such stages thematic analogy, we have observed the Newtonian dynamic in its early, but predictable return swing at the recent outrage expressed st town hall meetings. the National media, objective judicial rulings, and the beginnings of a noticeable reaction, forsooth, on the part of selected MAGA Republicans and Members of Congress.

We confidently and happily look forward to the fruition and substantial impact by way of the dynamic and reactive backswing of the perverse, Orange wrecking ball.

Mille Gracias, Isaac!

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The present, unhealthy state of our Republican Democracy, similar to the medical analysis of a systemic infection, calls for an inquiry into its etiology; an inquiry useful to the specific diagnosis and treatment of the presenting malady,

It is our view that the decline in the salubrity of our body politic had its toxic advent in the case of Bush v. Gore in the year 2000. The latter, indesputably a political case, provided the etiology for the decline in principle of the United States Supreme Court (“SCOTUS”) in its constitutional role as the decisive arbiter of constitutional issues. between contending parties, individual, and governmental.

The foundationally mandated dynamic, as expressed in the constitutional strictures of “Separation of Powers,” pragmatically resulted in the denial of “Political” cases from consideration by SCOTUS. Appellants wishing to bring their cases before SCOTUS were required, as a procedural prerequisite, to file a “Motion for Certiorari,” successfully demonstrating to the High Court that no “political” issue or resulting political impact is directly or indirectly involved.

Once the prorective “gates” were opened, in Bush v. Gore, SCOTUS was then afforded the constitutionally inappropriate opportunity to express politically partisan power. The Presidential appointment of partisan Justices by Donald Trump portended a predictably tragic decline in the High Court’s objectivity in the determination of issues presented for determination. Subsequent jurisprudential history demonstrated the tragic end of the High Court’s previously deserved, venerated reputation in admirably pursuing its foundational purpose and existential constitutional responsibility.

The final death blow to the recognition of its constitutionally prescribed and proscribed authority was tragically dealt by the “Citizen’s United Case” (2010) which, purportedly, in the stated interest of “free speech”, eliminated the law on the limitastion of political contribution by corporations and thereby loosed the floodgates of corruption regarding the historic sanctity of fair and representative election’. The corruptive decline in such a historically venerated branch of our constitutionally tri-partate architecture of government was discernable in the Court’s sophomoric attempt at legal justification.

The High Court’s) exotic and unprecedented decision (5 – 4), ruled that Corporations are “persons” and that no person can be constitutionally limited in, monetary donation, which would constitute a deprivation of “Free Speech.” Such a sophomoric justification inarguably constitutes convincing proof of its cynical motivation.

Every first-year law student and virtually every entrepreneur is well aware that the legal designation of “person” (since its advent in the Elizabethan era) does not invest “personhood” to the corporate entity but is eternally and universally, understood as a “legal fiction,” affording “Limited Liability” to the individual entrepreneur as an economic encouragement to individual enterprise,] It is historically notable, that failed business owners (“Debtors”) were imprisoned in Early English history; a famous example of which practiced, is the father of Charles Dickens.

Analogous to the existence of blameworthy parents who have the tendency to produce delinquent children, the transmogrification of the United States Supreme Court from a historically venerated and existential guardian of our constitutional democracy, to an instrument responsive to political and religious influence, furnished the proximate cause of our contemporaneous body politic’s “open wound” and an empirically cogent source of concern and frustration for the traditional mainstream American citizen.

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It is timely and appropriate for inveterate believers in the Bible to update the apophycral account regarding Cain and Abel in the Book of Genesis. It now appears that \the unpredictable dynamics of Natural Evolution, has produced a singular species of Homo Sapiens, gifted with the franchise of invulnerability, The same appears to be universally applicable to any charge, or the consequences of retribution for miscreance. The newly evolved protective franchise, universally and unfailingly, shields such newly evolved species from any charges of criminality and consequent retribution, indeed, for the most heinous crime.

Anthropologists, to date, have been successful in their field observation of only one singular example of the new species, noting that the stereotypical members of the newly discovered mutation are identifiable by their unique orange-colored hair and bleary shifty eyes. The newly discovered mutational homo Sapiens has been gifted by evolutional nuance with the uniquely, convenient franchise of warding off retributive responsibility for commission of ubiquitous criminality, treason, tax fraud, bribery and extortion, sexual abuse, blatent violations of the Emolument Clause, defamation, official and public deceit, inciting insurrection against the government, election fraud, stealing and purlolining government top secret documents, election interference, violations of the Civil Rights Law, “paying-off” prostitutes for their silence, adultery, causing avoidable deaths of many thousands of American citizens by advisory malpractice during the covid pandemic, intentional defamation of political opponents exemplify many of his miscreant, illegal and unethical behavior, in and out of Presidential Office. His evolved “teflon” is so efficient and remarkable as to permit him, notwithstanding his criminal behavior, to be elected a second time. Among the plethora of criminality. invulnerability, his publically demonstrated acts of treason are the most empirically remarkable.

A brief comparable reference to two past, famous examples of prosecution and punishment for the heinous crime of treason may be useful in demonstrating the bizarre extent of Donald Trump’s inherited franchise of invulnerability.

The first example is the 1953 case, “United States v. Rosenberg.” In June of 1953, Julius Rosenberg and his wife, Ethel, were executed by electric chair for the crime of aspiring to give secrets about the A–bomb to an agent of the USSR during the Second World War. It is our information that the ill-considered act was motivated by their concerns, as Jews, during the Holocaust, and their desire that Russia destroy Germany, together with its death camps.

Our second example of prosecution for State treason is the well-known 1894 Dreyfus case. Captain Alfred Dreyfus was arrested and convicted for “selling information” to the German enemies of his Nation, France, and sentenced to life imprisonment. Fortunately, an eloquent intervention by the famous French author, Emil Zola, demonstrated his innocence, and Dreyfus was restored to his prior military rank. The prosecutor was shown to be an inveterate antisemite, and Alfred Dreyfus was Jewish. Nevertheless, the case, like the Rosenberg case and many others less known, is instructive as an illustration of the universal gravity of the crime of treason. [ We would prefer to believe that the fact that both the Fosenbergs and Alfred Dreyfus were Jewish does not distract the reader from our contextual point, viz., that “Treason” is a uniquely grave offense.]

One may relevantly look at the copious acts of undeniable treason (many were in public or publicized by the public media ) intentionally committed by the empirically invulnerable Donald J. Trump.

(a) Trump has publically demonstrated his admiration and affection for Russia’s autocratic tyrant, Putin; although Russia has been our dire enemy,

(b) It has been officially proven that Russia helped finance and promote Trump’s Presidential election,

(c) Despite Russia’s illegal and unprovoked aggressive attack on the Democratic Nation of Ukraine to the dismay and horror of NATO and the rest of the free World, Trump, nonetheless, has praised Putin, as a great leader, while often disparaging the victim of Russia’s aggression, Ukraine, and it democ critically elected President,

(d) Arranging a “peace treaty” dystopically omitting the representation of Ukraine,

(e) Unexplained stealing and refusing to return governmental top secret documents,

(f)Intentionally and tactically making America vulnerable to espionage and attack by his programmatic emasculation of America’s intelligence facilities, including the CIA, the NSA, and the FBI.

Trump’s invulnerability in the face of his intentional commission of the most venal crime, Treason, considered together with his copious felonies, criminal indictments, and judicial determinations of guilt, make ineluctable the aspirational nature of America’s emblematic representation: “Equality under the Law.”

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We normally commute three or four days between our domicile on the Upper West Side of Manhattan and our country home in Kingston, New York. The trip is approximately two hours long, depending on traffic and weather conditions. Unlike the experience of tedious commutation to the office or some mundane venue, the northward drive to Kingston is not a dull albe necessary experience, but notably stimulating and thought-provoking.

The trip northward never fails to present a fascinating visual experience and unfailingly evokes musings concerning the seasonally changing beauty of Man’s verdant planetary home. We motor northward from the Palisades Parkway, situated above the dramatic Hudson River, throughout the entirety of the drive a copious gallery of trees (in all seasons), birds, on some occasions, deer (brown as well as gray mantled), and predatory hawks. in circular glides with the updrafts as well as other birds and small woodland critters. After proceeding for approximately an hour, we are treated to a view of nearby hills in various shades of verdancy, depending on the direction of the sunlight and the season, and soon thereafter, the gray appearance of distant mountains further northward.

As we venture further northward, we find ourselves in a species of reverence awe of the stark, colossal rock outcrops. through which, incredibly, the highway was, somehow, intruded; accompanying the balance of our automotive trek to New York State’s historic Capitol, the beautiful country ambience of Kingston.

The awe, beauty, and aesthetic pleasure derived from the weekly view of the natural environment is epitomized by the huge, dramatic rock outcrops seen on either side of the highway. We experience, in the contemplation of these mammoth natural phenomena more than their monumental size but, as well, enduring monuments to an autobiography of the Planet, but in conception, as the evincing some measure of relevant metaphysical comparisons the temporal the passage of human life.

Before the continuance of the preceding thematic comments, we would make some brief observations relative to the contextual rocks. Analogous to human beings, animal and plant life, rocks demonstrate an empirically natural diversity. Metamorphic rocks, by definition, are formed when existing rocks are transformed by heat and pressure; examples are marble and gneiss. Sedimentary rocks are formed from accumulated deposits of pre-existing earth materials, mud, rocks, and organisms, compacted by pressure, and evincing “strata. ” Examples are sandstone, shale, and limestone. Igneous rocks are formed from cooled v volcanic lava; examples are basalt and granite.

Of the natural compendium of rocks observed in our weekly two-hour commute, the most numerical, thematic and metaphysically stimulating are the huge, horizontally layered sedimentary variety. We imaginatively attempt to comprehend the enormity of time separating each of the many, uncountable layers of horizontal rock, the intervening development and evolution of our planet from pre-paleolithic to the stage of “Alexa” activated mechanical appliances.

The latter temporal perspective is of beneficial use in the emotional management of our personal angst generated by the contemporaneous and unprecedented governmental chaos that has descended upon our Democratic Republic.

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We have been responsibly obliged, by current events to comment on the ubiquitous amplitude of the villainy and abominable behavior of Donald Trump, in and out of office. Notwithstanding the empirical veracity of such observations, our sense of editorial balance urges us to render him credit for his many vasried innovative and creative accomplishments; independently “breaking new ground” as a singular American Chief Executive. Trump’s cutting edge, creative activities have given birth to a cornucopia of superceding perceptions of the American Presidency, such as have not seen in the Nation’s almost two centuries since its foundation. Such admirable governmental innovations are ubiquitously diverse and conceivably too numerous to cite in a mini=essay, however, we will endeavor to furnish an instructive and faithfully representative selection:

(1) No other president in almost two centuries of the Nation’s history has publically advertised to the American public the sale of sneakers and wristwatches.

(2) No other president has ever been romantically infatuated with the leader of the Nation’s extant adversaries, like Putin and Xi Jinping. Was King George ever an amorata of George Washington, or FDR a romantic suitor of Hirohito or Adolph Hitler?

(3) No other president in American History has been determined to guilty of sexual crimes by a Judge and Jury.

(4) Until the advent of the Trump Presidency, no prior president has been innovative enough to eschew the Constitution and conveniently ignore the Rule of Law and the established societal Moral Compass.

(5) No other American president has ever declared to the American public his intention to be a “dictator.”

(6) No other President has had the imagination to challenge the results of an American election nor, relevantly sponsor an insurrection against the Nation’s Capitol;

(7) No previous President to date has ever decreed a course of governmental “retribution” for his political opponents.

(8) No previous American president has engaged a non-elected civilian as a partner or co-president to share in the determination of governmental policy.

(9) No prior president has elected to cruelly and inhumanely slander and mistreat immigrants (even though it is notable that all three of his marriages have been to foreign immigrants).

(10) Donald Trump is the only president who singularly and unashamedly declared to the citizens of our Democratic Republic his desire to acquire the ownership of other sovereignties, viz., Greenland, Panama, and Canada.

In empirical reality, there is a veritably overfull dumpster of like Trump innovations and representative demonstrations of his singular talent for creative and uniquely ground-breaking capability; however, it is felt that the foregoing ten (10) listed items should suffice to sufficiently instruct potential critics of the verisimilitude of his understated merit.

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This writing extends the theme of #230, “SHAMELESS,” relating to Donald J. Trump’s demonstrable cruelty. His elimination of government agencies that protect human health, well-being, and the environment and provide food and medicine to the needy throughout the World, notably exemplifies the very pinnacle of cruelty.

For a brief time, in an effort at principled restraint, we were successful in the containment of reactive anguish and derivative shame by the diverting election to write on alternate themes, such as “MANDATORY SURGERY. # 233, and “SOLO SOCIETY,”#234. However, we find thast we are no longer to postpone the expression of our feelings of unmitigated rage at the recent heinous ac ts of Donald J. Trump under the false banner of “eliminating waste and fraud,” and, notably, by the cynical and outrageous dynamics of their implementation. We have also experienced profound disappointment and anguish at the impotence of the Democratic Party’s response.

The established mode of effecting policy changes mandates a prerequisite study and inquiry (usually, an open hearing) by the relevant Congressional Committee, followed by a resultant report to the legislature for statutory consideration. Notwithstanding our constitutionally appropriate precedent, Donald J. Trump’s autocratic, arbitrary, and, factually unsupported action (with the assistance of his non-elected, autistic -savant, “hit man,”) has, in orthodox Mousellini style, summarily dismissed many essential federal agencies, (together with their employees) upon his delusional and unsupported meme of “eliminating governmental fraud and abuse.” Such improperly arrogated autonomy makes appropriate the present expression of our feelings of unsuppressible outrage.

Imperially and presumptively bypassed by Trump are considerations of objective and pragmatic need and consequential negative outcome regarding the welfare of human life and society, and the Nation’s ultimate aspiration for improvement by his harmful dismissal of beneficially impactful agencies such as The United States Education Department,” the suicidal elimination of the CDC and the hazardous restraints imposed upon the National Health Agency, the NIH, the Nation’s Inspector Generals, encompassing societal damage relative to citizen health and welfare, such as disability, social security, school lunch programs, medicare and the like. As previously declared, such a draconian program is pathologically cruel and inarguably resultant in ubiquitous tragedy;

Equally dystopic to the nightmarish exercise is the arrogant, atavistic, and non-American exercise of Monarchical-style, unlimited authority, with no consideration given to the Constitution, its Separation of Powers, nor any other established procedural institution or historic safeguard against tyranny, Trump had publically declared his intention to be autocratic and has now demonstrated to the American public, that when it is in his neurotic interest, his systemic practice of serial mendacity can be temporarily ameliorated.

At this moment in our history, it is existentially determinative for mainstream America notably including its political representatives and officials, in sync with its domocracy- loving citizenry, to loudly voice their primal outrage and unshakeable opposition to the extant rape of our invaluable Republican Democracy by the fascistic acts of Trump and his complisant horde of loyal MAGA storm troopers.

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An Official Press Conference was convened last Wednesday at the Capital Executive Office, traditionally referred to as “The Oblique Office.” Present was the newly re-elected Chief -Executive, Denny J. Dumpster, his unelected sidekick, Feline Crust, and the usual members of the media (except the AP).

It had been leaked to the media by a federal civil servant two days before his shocking, unexpected summary dismissal by Crust), that the two had conferred for three days and that the Chief Executive, anxious to reveal his brilliant new plan, had requested that the meeting be scheduled at once. However, he was obliged to wait an extra day while members of the Official Cleaning Staff cleaned the copious ketchup stains from the drapes, and the spaghetti and pasta sauce, on the walls.

Despite the remaining ketchup stains and a small amount of spaghetti on the entrance door, President Dumpster, impatiently desirous of proving to the press (and the public) that his universal perception as incompetent was erroneous, directed that the Press Conference be convened “at once.”

When all had assembled in the (“mostly clean”) Oblique Office, Dumpster excitedly announced that he (and his smiling autistic savant) had devised a brilliant plan; in fact, a “panacea” (he, in candor, actually used the word, “answer”) to most of the Country’s problems. The “brilliant” solution would consist of the effectuation of the following: to trade one of the blue states, like Rhode Island, in exchange for Mexico. Dripping with salivary excitement, he explained that the incorporation of Mexico would, ipso facto, solve the Nation’s immigration dilemma since the transfer would legally make Mexicans American citizens and thereby avert the immigration problem. He also suggested that his private development company could build hotels and golf courses and would be able to profitably improve the impoverished Nation.

Several of the members of the media actually fainted. Then, one reporter commented that Mexico had historically owned a substantial portion of the Southwest until it lost the “Mexican-American War.”

After much responsive hiccuping and coughing, nevertheless, and -notably, in a pseudo-confident voice, the embarrassed President stated: let’s postpone the plan. America does not like “losers.”

The media rose and slowly filed out, much relieved, while carefully assisting their fainted colleagues from the historic chamber.

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Despite juxtaposing two words that can be seen as mutually contradictory, the present title is not oxymoronic but thematically editorial. Understandably, the adjective ” solo” means alone, while “society” represents living together in a community. Nevertheless, our present theme relates to the current inclination to elect to live singular or solitary lives.

We are not credentialed as sociologists; the observations articulated in this writing are exclusively based on our perceptions, information garnered from the television news media, newspapers, magazines, and nuanced experiences. Nevertheless, our sources of information are consistent in confirming our present thematic, social phenomenon.

It seems evident, that Man’s progress to modern humankind was catalyzed by Man’s choice to live in a community, mutually sharing the responsibilities necessary for survival and, thematically, the many benefits derived from interaction with others. The beneficial dynamics of societal interaction were stereotypically implicit in such communal living. However, Recently, salubrious social interaction, to his material detriment has become less common. .

Our information reveals a universal shift from traditional societal interaction to a more solitary, virtually reclusive lifestyle. As reported, there appear to be far fewer communal activities, joint undertakings, and socialization at parties and neighborhood barbeques, and lesser attendance at places of public assembly such as movie houses, theaters, restaurants, and other places of public assembly. Such adverse development was significantly exacerbated by the advent of the pandemic, causing many people to interact and be employed, virtually, from home rather than in the company of others by the prophylactic necessity to avoid human contact.

In recent years there appears to be a trend to singularity in which young adults, for example, are dedicating more time to personal self-improvement through regular attendance at the gym rather than socializing with others and apparently, marrying later. Concerns for financial success and physical fitness, have overtaken, those relative to the future of spouse and family.

We must confess to a lack of knowledge as to the etiologic history of this toxic societal condition; but do observe that its toxicity was exponentially catalyzed by the advent of the facile, but societally regressive “smartphone; rendering anachronistic, the vital societal dynamic of interactive, communication, The regressive trend is exemplified by the practice of young people engaging in video games on their hand-held appliances rather than read books and at dinner time, under the table, surreptitiously consulting their smartphones, for information or communication. We were non-plussed to observe that it is not uncommon for many young toddlers to be afforded smartphone technology.

The empirical sequelae of such toxic and societally disabling trend to insular, non-social behavior are ubiquitously harmful to the individual psyche, in addition to its impactful challenge to the essential dynamics of human society. We have often declared that the human persona and self-image are empirically created from the experienced reactions of other people with whom we have social commerce. It has been our often-stated belief that the exponential increase in depression and anxiety of the young generation has been due to the loss of stable identity, resulting from the relegation of normal interaction to the limited contact, afforded by society’s use of hand-held electronic digital messaging. .

Self-absorption and personal insularity are not empirical prerequisites for humanistic empathy, the contemplation of one’s inner self nor the aspiration to understand the world scene. Socrates’ admonition to Mankind to: “Know thyself,” manifestly becomes an impossible goal.

Mankind has often experienced the tragic impact of human apathy. The wise and eloquent holocaust survivor, Elie Weisel, memorably declared: “The opposite of love, is not hate, it is indifference.”

For some time, we had agonized over the dilemma: ” How could a demonstrably visible ogre, like Donald Trump, possibly be elected by the American voters? Our ultimate answer appears to be: by the numerical combination of the stereotypical, populist underbelly of the Nation, supplemented, (thematically) by the current, growing population of the singular, reductively, self-interested citizenry.,

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America celebrates its annual National Holiday, “President’s Day,” perennially, on the third Sunday of February. This, holiday honoring past America’s Presidents was created shortly after the decease of President George Washington. Its annual observance, is in essence, a historical statement of appreciation for Presidential service to the Nation. It is additionally, an articulated statement of fundamental rectitude and of the humanism of the American constitutional ‘s systemic assurance of life, liberty, and equality. The history of much of the World has, indeed. been otherwise, and the Founders of Our Nation succeeded in their experimental creation of a Nation run by a Chief Executive, selected by the People rather than by a hereditary Monarch, and/or an Established Religious Authority

.In our view, the event functionally serves as an enduring declaration that success is empirically possible and enduring in a polity dedicated to being “by and for the people.” The historic, popularly elected Chief Executives, subscribing to that foundational principle of governance are appropriately deserving of such Nationally respectful memory, celebratory gratitude, and beneficial recognition.

We would include as deserving of the highest praise, and historical esteem, such venerable National leaders as George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, Franklyn D. Roosevelt, Lyndon Johnson, and Barack Obama. In empirical contrast, we consider the following past Presidents, by contrast, as rather less deservant of kudos, Andrew Johnson, Andrew Jackson, Herbert Hoover, and George Bush, Jr. President Donald J. Trump, notably, is deservant of separate treatment, as set forth below.

Regarding the category of American Presidents, less deserving of veneration we would choose to cite, cite Andrew Jackson who promulgated the shameful and inhumane “Indian Act,” (“Trail of Tears”), Andrew Johnson, whose wrongful actions during the Reconstruction Period, justly earned him Presidential impeachment and Richard Nixon whose illegal and unAmerican crimes, necessitated his removal and fortuitous pardon. Nevertheless, we have been able to tolerate their inclusion among the honorable past Presidents on the eponymous holiday. Not so with Donald J. Trump, the context of whose singular persona and despicable level of Presidential service, we, thematically request, be appropriately excised from the list of Chief Executives, honored on Presidents’ Day. We will elucidate.

Of our designated category of “less deserving of veneration,” only Trump was and is guilty of undermining the existential features of our Nation’s democracy, its constitution, and its system of laws, perversely including, its definitional existence as a democracy by undermining its vote, together with his unashamed repudiation of societally basic principles of moral behavior. His empirical resume would reveal a disgracefully errant American President, personified by anti-democratic rule, distaste for the societal moral compass, publically demonstrated treasonous behavior, and memorably repeated declarations of intent to ” be a dictator.”

The thoughtless, routine inclusion of Donald J. Trump among America’s Holiday roster of honored past Presidents, would be inappropriate and constitute holiday an effective pollution of the ritual Memorial, honoring America’s Presidential past. His name should be beneficially and responsibly excised from our (democratic) Nation’s roster of venerable or democratically acceptable, holiday-celebrated Chief Executives.

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Before Vladimir Putin’s atavistic, and illegal assault on the democratic Nation of Ukraine (2022), there has been no significant war since the Second World War. Russia’s unprovoked attack was an inarguable and egregious articulation of Russia’s autocratic Premier, Vladimir Putin’s assertion of his delusional Ceasar-like power, dedicated to the forceful reprise of the USSR, presumably. encouraged by his easy grab of Ukraine’s Crimea and the Donbas.

In concert with most right-thinking inhabitants of the Planet, we are outraged at the convening of the “Peace Conference” at which Donald Trump’s “Bro-Mate,” and the aggressor, Vladimir Putin, will be represented, but, bizarrely and unjustifiably, without the rational and fair representation of the victim, Ukraine’s democratic President, Vladimir Zelinsky.

Nevertheless, such justified outrage is somewhat ameliorated in consideration of the starkly evident contrast between the respective position of the publically embarrassed and deprecated, would-be “Alexander the Great,” Vladimir Putin, and the contrasting Vladimir i.e., Ukraine’s President. Zelensky.

Putin, in his ego-delusional, publically broadcasted assertion that Ukraine would be summarily defeated in three days, has, nevertheless, expended billions of dollars and sacrificed hundreds of thousands of soldiers in his egomaniacal venture, which, has empirically, lasted more than three years.

It will be recalled that said delusional, self-identified Caesar, has famously broadcast photos of himself, heroically posed, in gladiator fashion, riding a horse, bare-chested. In demonstrated reality, he is a faux strongman, under the existential control of a coarse cadre of Russian mafia, composed of rich oligarchs, and a leader who is empirically able to remain in power by poisoning and imprisoning his detractors,

By bright contrast, President Vladimir Zelensky, democratically elected by the popular vote of the people of Ukraine, has further elevated and endeared himself to his Nation and the free world by his dignified demonstration of steadfast courage and patriotism. [It is revealing that, among the propagandic justifications of Putin for his egregious aggression, was his meme that Ukraine is a “fascist” State since its Vladimir is Jewish; irrefutably, not a historically empirical choice of fascism].

We adamantly disapprove of the Trump administration’s decision to convene a dystopic peace conference in the absence of one of the parties involved in the contextual war (as we are ineluctably, non-plussed and concerned about all matters, Trumpian), but we can glean a bit of satisfaction in the knowledge that the egotistic Putin, with the assistance of our disreputable Chief Executive, is desperately attempting, and will predictably fail, to save face.

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