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With due apologies to the great American composer, the late George Gershwin, we would, for contextual purposes, discombobulate the opening line of his modern-day opera, “Porgy and Bess,” by perversely stating, “Summertime and the stomach is queasy.”

At the “Summertime” of this writing, our democratic nation has been painfully experiencing an unprecedented array of challenging issues, generating an unsettling atmosphere of citizen discord, contention, and insecurity. The Trumpist, demagogic battle cry, “Make America Great Again,” has seen realization only on the red baseball caps worn by his adherents. This summer season, the Nat finds itself divided and profoundly troubled. The “living aint easy.”

The populist election of an outrageously unsuitable Chief Executive has emphatically validated the sage admonition of learned political philosophers to the effect that a Democratic Republic is systemically vulnerable. Sadly, the United States of America, once the venerated avatar of freedom, liberty, and the aspiration for universal equality, has suddenly been thrust into a deep mire of unprecedented and embarrassing inconsonance.

The extant situational, “livin” ain’t “easy,” evinces an awesome conglomerate of problems, including Ukraine-Russia-Putin, Epsteingate, autocratic reprisal-style “retribution,” against political opponents, inflation and higher consumer prices, Trump tariffs, vaccine conspiracies, elimination of utilitarian civil service agencies, the effective discontinuance of traditionally empathic programs of food and medicine to needy individuals, domestic and foreign, the decline of the revered legal system, including the Judiciary, the destruction of the democratically salubrious two-party political system, political corruption, startlingly including the President, in particular, and SCOTUS, the Gestapo-style private army of masked hoodlums detaining, arresting, and banishing to foreign torture prisons, peace-loving Hispanic-American residents, the ubiquitous Presidential disparagement of the Constitution and the Rule of Law, as well as the demonstration of his complete absence of societal moral compass, the curtailment of assistance, in terms of food and medicine to the needy, as well as the Presidential dedication to curtail social security and medicare, governmental efforts to limit the right of certain, selected citizens to vote, gross negligence regarding the Armageddon potential of “Global Warming,” and active support of the lethal fossil fuel oil industry (“drill, baby drill”); the latter proximately responsible for unpecedented tsunamis, seasonal irregularity, great fires, floods, tornadoes and meterological irregularity, civilization threatening promotion of “alternate facts” in place of empirical reality, autocratic attracks on traditional media, on higher educastion, on health research agencies, on programs to encourage constitutional equality, such as DEI, immoral and constitutionally forbidden Presidential acquisition of untold wealth, right-wing interference with the vote to favor Trump, disparagement and prejudicial statements and construed policies against the gay and disabled communities, Putin-like, delusional Trump statements of territorial, sovereign aggrandizement regarding Canada (“a 51st State”), as well as Greenland and Panama.

Most recently, the self-proclaimed High Emperor has egregiously seen fit to nationalize the Washington, D.C., National Guard for use as his army to fight (nonexisting) rising crime, in malign violation of law (Posse Comitatus) and the systemic and fundamental American character.

Porgy, this damn Summer ain’t that “easy” for nobody!

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Kudos are long overdue to America’s singular “Sanitation Department,” which, in its unique dynamic nuance, performs the singularly unique duty of creating, as well as removing, garbage from the otherwise pure, detritus-free consciousness of the American Reader, by its quasi-parental censorship. The nuance of such dedicated redeemers and protectors of moral rectitude is that they, in addition, generate and distribute. alternative rubbish when subjectively deemed appropriate. Notably, they experience little or no awareness of the chronic, ubiquitous commission of cognitive dissonance. It admittedly requires profound dedication to dutifully disseminate, as well as dispose of, society’s garbage.

Some illustrative and laudatory illustrations may be discerned in their morally responsible positions on “election fairness,” on American history, and sexual propriety. In each of these worthy contexts, the thematic “Sanitation Department” responsibly, and on occasion, religiously, takes on the tireless duties of removal, (“morally cleansing”) and, when appropriate, the substitution and distribution of selected, offal, subjectively deemed more desirable.

Such sanitation workers, (“garbagemen”) resolutely eliminate books and essays dealing with the subjects such as those, known as “The Trail of Tears,” referring to President Andrew Jackson’s “Indian Removal Act,” by which countless numbers of innocent, indigenous Americans were forcibly evicted from their traditional, fertile homelands and tragically force- marched to “more suitable injun territory,” viz., the windy, non-arable wastelands of Oklahoma. Yet, bizarrely, such individuals appear to evince no shame or self-consciousness relative to the current MAGA xenophobia, based upon which Hispanic immigrants peacefully residing and working, for decades, in the United States are unjustly and heartlessly banished from their homes, some to Nations they had fled for their lives, many others to foreign torture prisons.

An additionalo illustrative instance of substitute garbage-type cognitive dissonance is seen in their strident, but empirically false, assertions of “election rigging, in the face of Donald Trump’s nationally televised phone call to the Georgia Secretary of State, illegally requesting the numerical enhancement of his votes, in Republican laws and regulations making it diffiucult for minorities to cast their votes, and blatently unconstitutional “gerrymandering.” What seems preferable to the contextual collectors is the implementation of their own iteration of unconstitutional garbage, in harmony with their demagogically installed paranoid ideations.

The Nation’s dark period of black chattel slavery is deemed to be appropriately excised and eliminated from literary and pedagogic mention by such zealous sanitation workers, who, notwithstandingly, do not shy away from the promotion of racially motivated policies and the denigration of just policies of cultural rehabilitation, like affirmative action and DEI. No thought of cognitive dissonance disturbs the skewed cognition of America’s reductive sanitation workers.

Freedom of speech is universally accepted as basic and essential to the definitive existence of the Democratic Republic. The same constitutes a principle at least, nominally accepted by Americans of every stripe, inclusive of those who arrogate to themselves the singular duty of judgmental review of books and educational curricula. Nonetheless, the MAGA sanitation officials, governmental and civilian, with authoritarian zeal, have removed curricula and exerted harsh financial penalties on institutions of liberal higher education, perceived as despoiling young minds by the study of reductively perceived “liberal trash.” Such garbage collectors, apparently, are neither hesitant nor self-consciously diffident about matters, considerably above their mental pay grade, provided the same appear to be in sync with the groupthink of the political, semi-literate, sanitation Chief of State.

It may, conceivably, be seen by certain MAGA adherents that the singular responsiblility relating to the dynamic substitution of garbage deemed preferentially desirable for the less utilitarian, local variety, donated by such nations as Russia, China, North Korea, and Hungary, is appropriately reciprocal for the plethora of gifts of more pragmatic value from our Nation; however, in our view, it would inarguably be suitable to return the same, ASAP, to the “generous” donors.

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For years, we had consistently failed in our arcane attempts to comprehend the origin and nature of our singular President, Donald J. Trump. Was his aberrative behavior a result of inadequate or skewed socialization? Childhood neglect or abuse? Diagnosable mental disorder? Psychopathic or sociopathic personality disorder? An acceptable explanation for his singularly delusional and demonstrated self-interest, entire lack of moral compass, and notably, his comprehensive detachment from societally established boundaries, we concluded, warrants a more profound determination of its etiology than a facile observation of an ” aberrant persona.”

After much metaphysically oriented contemplation, we have come to the conclusion, founded in Trump’s astonishingly bizarre public statements and perverse actions, augmented by their evident lack of expressed principle or discernible consistency, that the relevant causation far exceeds any empirically initially based conclusion.

While our proffered explanation, initially, may be deemed astounding or factually inconceivable, it, nevertheless, appears to” fit the bill,” as further evidenced by the nature of his determined drive for personal retribution against perceived political rivals or dissenters, egigently necessitated by his singularly ego-protective, and societally aberrant policies.

As evidenced by his unique, sui-generis character, Donald Trump visibly exudes the symptomology of a solitary, stranded, and hapless victim of an exotic world eternally challenging him to prove his presumed worth and the consequent aspiration to be seen as a “winner,” which we perceive to mean universally and eternally admired.

It is our thematic proposition that, analogous to the existence of, Man’s vestigial organs, viz., tonsils and appendix, deemed by biological anthropologists to have once been of systemic utility in the early stages of human developmental evolution, but are presently useless, superfluous, and capable of posing a potential threat to the salubrious functioning of contemporary mankind.

The universally accepted conceits of Locke and Rousseau concerning the existence of a social contract by which the individual willingly surrenders some liberties, in exchange for the ubiquitous benefits of living in society with others, are evidently absent from Trump’s atavistic and vestigial persona. In our view, the latter absence, for Trump, outweighs any concept of societal interdependence and moral responsibility. It is observable that Donald J Trump, inarguably, is not a participating party in the civilizational “Social Compact”

The latter observation evinces the presence of a uniquely primitive and socially underdeveloped member of the human species. Consistent with our judgmental theme, Donald J. Trump is a rare, “vestigial” leftover from Man’s anthropological and physico-systemic march toward acceptable humanism. There well may be other, such defective products of the evolutionary assembly line, but this one, notably, is no less, the President of the United States.

In the context of possible amelioration, we initially thought of a 60-day salutary assignment of Donald Trump to a troupe of jungle bonobos (Jane Goodall and other primatologists of note have commented on the socialized, communal structure of these evolved gorillas and, notably, their innate capacity for love, sensitivity, and empathy). However, on second thought, in moral and empathic consideration of these loving and peaceful beasts, we would prefer the electoral defeat of the psychopathic, vestigial phenomenon anthropologically identified as Donald Trump, analogous to the exigent, surgical excision of an infected vestigial organ from a fully evolved and normal patient.

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Yesterday evening, while routinely watching the evening news, we were profoundly disturbed to be introduced to the revelation of a “new” and “advanced” institutional State program (“PragerU”) which seeks to promote the inculcation of young schoolchildren in the immovable tectonics of biased and reductive, populist ignorance. It presents a cartoonized version of Christopher Columbus telling the young student watcher that the enslavement of black human beings was beneficial and morally preferable to their being killed. The brief excerpt of this filmed program of atavistic instruction of young schoolchildren provided a uniquely distressing aperture to our distressing perception of stereotypically reductive ignorance and its atavistic promotion of dehumanizing racial bigotry.

The film snippet presented an affably smiling, plainly virtuous, and admirable Christopher Columbus, holding a spyglass while morally proclaiming that the preferable choice of black slavery was preferable to that of death. We were suddenly obliged to draw in our breath in shocked reaction to this reductive and pathological declaration, common to the substantial minions of hubristically delusional Americans, known as White Christian Evangelicals.

We were aesthetically and philosophically grateful that merely a short excerpt of this dystopian children’s animated film was presented; nevertheless, this revealing new aperture, focused on a dystopian and regressive policy employed in the instruction of schoolchildren, doubtlessly will be useful in our ongoing attempt to comprehend the MAGA-style delusions of history and its reductive attitudes.

We would begin with the presented smiling depiction of an animated Christopher Columbus as the avatar of traditional American virtue. History shows that such a purported discoverer of America never reached the American continent and brought only exotic infectious diseases as well as cultural homicidal prejudice to the “New World.” We have witnessed the traditionally restrained and conventionally dignified National Geographic, devote no less than two of its venerable issues to the subject of the ethnocentric, malign cruelty of Columbus practiced on the indigenous peoples of the Western hemisphere, Notably, our personal recognition and celebration of “Columbus Day” is exclusively a grateful recogition of the many ubiquitous contributions of Italian immigrants to our State and the Nation.

The animated image of a smiling Christopher Columbus, articulating the inane and condescending (sophomoric) message that black people were preferentially enslaved as opposed to being killed, is a nauseatingly repulsive and ignorant example of pathological hubris; and conceivably ranks as the most deplorable verbal example of pathological cruelty and hubristic ignorance. The animated version of this purported hero of American history, smilingly delimits the available, empirical choices of black human beings to slavery or death; what happened to the universally natural choice of life and self-realization?

This shocking view of the contextually reductive and arrogant program of recommended childhood education is not, to any rational degree, consistent with the history of the rectitude of the Nation’s humanistic aspirations, and must be decisively thrown into the nearest and most obnoxiously scented dumpster.

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On August 2025, the world was treated to a bizarre transmogrification of William Shakespeare’s (1556) classic comedy, “A Midsummer Night’s Dream.” The public broadcast of our contextually analogous reprise of Shakespeare’s carnivalesque offering, featuring players wearing animal heads, evokes theatrical fantasy and has been thematically matched by two official heads of State, wearing business suits as functional theatrical costumes

A notable distinction with our construed version, notably performed before the entire world and entered into recorded history, was that it was not an instance of theatrical diversion, but performed by two heads of mutually enemy states; in fact, the travesty was sufficiently unsuitable as to justify the adornment of the classic 1556 play’s animal heads. The internationally broadcast event, sadly, revealed itself as stereotypical of the systemic ignorance and monomaniacal perspective of our singular Chief Executive, Donald J. Trump, and, by contrast, the cunning and psychopathic persona of the Russian autocratic leader, Vladimir Putin.

The functional co-star in our tawdry drama, Russia’s autocratic oligarch, who hubristically orchestrated an unjust, full-scale, aggressive invasion of democratic Ukraine, February 2022, continuing his unlawful imperial drive for expansion, begun in 20i4 with its immoral conquest of Crimea. Putin’s ongoing aggressive war is, notably, the biggest European war since World War 2.

History will record a ubiquitous World response evincing shock and disapproval at Russia’s (Putin’s) unprovoked incursion into Ukraine, and responsively furnished financial and military assistance (principally by the United States, and by Europe and NATO), to the beleaguered nation. Putin’s hubristic boast that he would conquer Ukraine in three days proved to be empirically delusional; the hard-fought and bloody war has, in fact, persisted for more than three years. Among Trump’s egoistic boasts was that he would end the war in the first week of his Presidency; however, akin to the totality of his universal “snake oil” representations, he was characteristically and predictably impotent.

Donald Trump, a proclaimed and neurotically motivated future dictator, had enjoyed a long period of delusional “bromance” with the psychopathic dictator and often referred favorably to him, most especially, relative, his admirable political acumen and acquisition of unparalleled authority; not uncommonly assisted by having his detractors murdered. It is our confident perception that, sadly, by such farcical theatrical presentation, had the wileyPutin easily won the devoted admiration and high praise of the egocentric Trump by feigning praise and officious respect.

To the contrary, the television and newspaper media often reported on the unfriendly and imperial attitude towards Zelinsky, the young and admirably indefatigible democratically elected President of Ukraine, our ally, including a televised, inappropriate “dressing down, with the aid of the loyal and obnoxious persona of the exotic vice-President. This is notably and implausibly to be inexplicably compared with Trump’s many reverenced and intimately friendly interactions with the murderous and wily autocrat, Putin.

Our contextually analogous,”Midsummer Night’s Dream,” raises its curtain at the public request by Donald Trump to negotiate a peace treaty between the aggressor, Russia, and the wrongly attacked Ukraine by an official meeting with Putin, without the presence of Zelinsky, of Ukraine. The tragic comedy reaches its ultimate zenith with Trump’s exclusive invitation to Putin to meet on American soil (Alaska), again, without the presence of Ukraine’s President Zelensky.

The tragic-comedy is epitomized by the exalted view of the magnificent red carpet treatment of the autocratic wrongdoer thereby affording the villainous Putin a faux public affirmation of recognized rectitude. The reductive ignorance and lack of discernment of Donald J.Trump, consistent with his daily modus operandi, this hot, Summer August, results in a visible public victory to the tyrant, by his demonstrated affirmation and recognition by the incapable and irresponsible Trump; a comedy of national dissonance amounting to a tragic and ironic reprise of Shakjespear’s “Midsummer Night’s Dream.”

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Perhaps the benevolent reader will forgive our repetitive ruminations relative to the dystopian “Land of Oz,” to which our venerated Democratic Republic has, of late, descended. The shamefully outrageous transformation of the venerable and unique Democratic Republic, thoughtfully created by its wise Founders and successfully enduring (despite some historically anecdotal hiccups) for almost three centuries, has seen itself transmogrified into a veritable “Land of Oz, presided over by an orange-dyed-haired, malevolent Wizard.

More detailed and specific accounts of the contextual dystopia have been expressed in prior writings; however, the singular angst and repulsion, notably generated by two recent outlandish and grotesque circumstances, have personally catalyzed their unique and inexorable rumination

It is our sense that this blogspace has sufficiently articulated the panoply of the Trump-MAGA debasement and injury to our Democratic Republic. Nevertheless, a duo of notably ironic and dystopian observations has exceeded all bearable bounds of acceptably empirical reality and evinces the analogously bizarre distortions of a fun-house mirror. It is such astonishing, Wizard of Oz developments that have sorely tested our determined resolution to patiently observe the temporal travesty of the Trump Presidential rule.

Two especially ironic disturbing and factually inappropriate acts by the Nation’s orange hazmat President are, thematically, (1) the federalizing of the Washington, D.C. National Guard to serve as community police, and (2) the stated intention of the President to audit the propriety of the programmatic policies of America’s Smithsonian Institution inclusive of the acceptable nature of the latter’s Museum exhibit policies. We will attempt to briefly summarize (and simultaneously control our responsive outrage and painfully perseverated views).

(1) Policing D.C. by the federalized National Guard:

Trump’s stated motivation for this act, found in his false and tactical declaration of an increase in D.C. crime and the existing descent of the Capitol City into a state of violent barbarism. In truth, official statistics demonstrate his tactical falsity by their expert official calculations, showing a notably lowered D.C. crime rate. The most vexing consideration, however, is the criminal nature ot the act of this darling of the Christian Evangelicals; Trump has been convicted of no less than 34 felonies, indicted for a further dumpsterfull of venal criminalty, been adjudged a tax cheat, a woman abuser, a defamer, a giver of substantial bribes to avoid publication of his brisk commerce with call girls, a perpetrator of corruption, electoral as well as personal. Trump has empirically proven himself to have no respect for the Constitution, the law of the land, and has publicly and irrefutably demonstrated a complete lack of moral compass’

His purported motive in using the military for presidential purposes (and, notably, in breach of the US Posse Comitatus Act) is motivated by other intentions, viz., the deflection from the poor state of the Nation’s economy and the Epstein sex scandal.

(2) The critical oversight and correction of the policies of the Smithsonian Institution, including its museum policy.

The Smithsonian Institute is the World’s largest museum and educational research complex. It has been eternally dedicated to the beneficial protection and shaping of our future by preserving America’s heritage, as well as resourcing new knowledge and resources.. Any government political interference would be harmful to its beneficial mission. The proposition that the semi-literate, reductionist, egocentric Donald J. Trump would have the appropriate capability, even if legal and theoretically needed, is empirically delusional and dishonest.

As Dorothy said to Toto, on arriving at the Land of Oz, “We are not in Kansas anymore.”

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If we were to empirically analogize, the “Nation,” the entity to which political scientists refer to as “The Body Politic,” the consternation and angst now suffered by the mainstream, traditional American citizen would be attenuated, and the salutary sense of optimism would reinstate itself.

During the natural course of Man’s life, he universally experiences anecdotal periods of discomfort, threatening, infirmity, or ill health. By fsr, the greater number and variety of such maladies, such as colds, flu, and indigestion, are temporal and are, by past similar experience, patiently and optimistically borne. Notwithstanding such confidence, pending its uncomfortable course, it is empirically productive of impatience, notably, as to the prevailing symptoms and at rare times, its sequelae.

The state of the body politic of our traditionally salubrious Nation is at present, demonstrably ill, being unfortunately beset by the dangerous, toxic, and insidious pandemic of autocratic”Trumpism,” an autocratic immune disorder, whose clinical etiology is empirically founded in a combination of demagoguery, an uninformed grievance-inclined gullible populism, financed by certain corrupt anti-regulation industrial polluters. The illness is notably systemic, presenting a ubiquitously pernicious undemocratic governmental incompetence and corruption, which has remarkably infected its systemic tri-partite architecture with democratic disability and unprecedented, shameless corruption.

It is in this contextual setting that the traditional mainstream citizen, concerned for the systemic health of his normally uniquely hearty and robust Democratic Republic, finds himself in an empirically justified state of fear and depression. It is in such an understandable and rationally justified state of mind that one is appropriately and salubriously, to be reminded of the ultimate empirically experienced and inevitable arrival of remission and restored health and vigor.

However, like many ubiquitously contagious diseases, such as strep throat, the presenting malady requires medicinal support for its amelioration and full recovery. In the contextual instance, the “penicillin” consists of a compound of faith, as opposed to a depressed resignation, and the affirmative articulation of political propriety, when possible and by whatever appropriate means present themselves; as well as the solicitous vote for candidates, local and federal.

With resolute faith and optimism, we look forward to the imminent happening of the inevitable, recovery of the American body politic, and the restoration to its primal. health. We would be extremely fortunate to find that the contextual illness has resulted in an immunative result.

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A colossal tsunami, which has tragically and unprecedentedly breached the protective seawall of our Democratic Republic, carrying with it the historically rancid flotsam and jetsam of atavistic autocracy, has continued in its metastatic toxity to attain unimaginable impact.

Donald J. Trump, elected to the American Presidency, in large part, by the grievance-inclined, educationally deprived population of American populists, with the financial support of the polluting anti-regulation industrialists, has uniformly demonstrated an autocratic disregard for the Constitution and laws of the United States, as well as demonstrated to the Nation and an egoistic lack of societal moral compass.

The most egregious act of hubristic illegality is his tactical call-up of the National Guard to ameliorate a purported crime wave extant in Washington, D.C. More serious than the revealing statistical drop in the Capital City’s historic crime rate is his hubristic and autocratic disregard for the Nation’s historically contextual democratic law by tactically federalizing and deploying its National Guard, based on a fictitiously high crime rate, evidently as a public diversion from the failing economy and, most notably, the roiling Epstein obscenity.

The “Posse Comitatus” Act (1875) has eternally prohibited the President’s use of the federal military (or, relevantly, the federalized military) for domestic law enforcement purposes. Its avowed and clearly expressed legislative purpose is the prevention of the use of the military as a “police force.”

Most obscene is the autocratic pretense for this reprise of his empirical disregard for the American law, purportedly based on a fictitious burgeoning of the crime rate in Washington D.C., is the contextual consideration of the Executive law breaker who has been convicted of a plethora of felonies, is the subject of numerous felonious indictments, has been adjudged a woman molester, a defamer, a tax cheat, a inciter and supporter of an insurrection against the capitol ( then pardoning the criminal insurgergents) and relevantly a loyal customer at a ciminally under-age whorehouse.

We have eternally reiterated our earnest desire for the appropriate vetting of all presidential aspirants, which would be an existential aid to the Nation’s floodwall.

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We have identified two distinct contextual uses of the noun “displacement” ubiquitously employed by xenophobes, viz., racial and cultural. The Nation and the World are best familiar with the noun concerning the widespread and biased ideation that a perceived inferior or odious species will invade and overrun a superior and singularly appropriate race of inhabitants. This species of xenophobia is the toxic mantra of all Nationalist White Militias and, as well, the neurotic ideation of many reductive thinking, grievance-driven individuals.

It is this irrational bias that has universally resulted in the cruel repression of those members of humanity who, haplessly, were born with a skin color other than white, or perhaps into an ethnos ascribing to spiritual beliefs other than Christianity. Man’s execrable history of the resultant acts of tragic inhumanity has evinced itself in wars, religious Inquisition, and a shameful plenitude of misery and human tragedy.

World history has, in notable part, been written by the universal pandemic of toxic prejudice, empirically metastasized by the perpetuation of vile, unscientific, and mythical delusions of racial and ethnic superiority. The best-known, egregious examples in history include the Spanish Inquisition, the Hundred Years’ War, the pillaging and rape of South America by rapacious Spain and Portugal, the American Civil War, the Native American Removal Act (“The Trail of Tears”) the American CivilWar, the inhuman tragedy of American, negro chattel slavery, and the monstrous tragedy of thde Holocaust.

The outlandish contextual delusion of the xenophobic racial bigot is that the iconic American will be tragically replaced by non-Christian (heathen) members of an empirically inferior race. It is demonstrably ironic and mentally dissonant to note that the apocryphal Jesus, as theologically portrayed in the New Testament, is empirically and undeniably a dark-skinned, Palestinian Jew,

The attenuation and ideal elimination of the un-American and dehumanizing institution of racial prejudice, through constitutional provision, and Congressional legislation ensuring the moral enforcement of equal rights, notably voting, are accepted expressions of the avowed American tradition of equality; but to date, have not been sufficiently successful in the effectuation of such aspirational justice.

Our readings inform us of a somewhat divergent. xenophobic fear of “replacement,” analogously biased, albeit less profoundly anthropological. It is the neurotic fear of what we have chosen to label “cultural” replacement. This ethnocrastic-cultural ideation finds itself viable among certain citizens of historically established ancient cultures, such as France and England to the effect that immigrants from foreign cultures would pollute the established culture of such a nation, possessing such a valuable and singular culture, and disasterously incorporate their less desirable folkways. in replacement of the invaluable cultural ethos of the country to which they immigrated. We would term such extreme national prejudice “cultural ethnocentricism,” or, dynamically,” as cultural replacement.” By significant example, Albert Camus, the internationally celebrated French novelist and thinker, was a proponent of such cultural hybris.

The first category of delusional “replacement’ is, in reality,” a paranoid excuse for plain and simple racial hatred. The second, cultural replacement,” would have no rational context in a Nation of immigrants, espousing, “E Pluribus Unum.”

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The existential damage empirically inflicted upon our Democratic Republic by Donald Trump’s unprincipled and dystopian policies, having its etiology in his singular egoistic and neurotic perception as a “winner” or, heaven forbid, a “loser,” has tragically accomplished the dirty work of its foreign enemies. His all- pervasive divisive weakening of the American Nation, morally, economically, and sociologically (viz., demeaning education and intellectual advancement, promotion of falsity and ‘alternate facts,” tanking the Nation’s stable economy, demeaning national military service (“suckers and losers,”) attack on the Nation’s media, tactical appointment of inappropriately, incapable, albeit loyal, Cabinet Ministers, the creation of a privately loyal legal authority, as opposed to a nationally dedicated, federal legal apparatus, his irresponsibled dessimating of the Federal Civil Service and societal protective regulations, contrasted with his adamant support of polluting, big industry, his autocratic prosecution of free speech as well as citizen indivdual liberty and equality, his executive action, based upon his perverse ideation that he is above the strictures of the law, his lack of societal moral compass and plain human decency, his intimate friendship with Amedrica’s enemies and most recently his un-American, Gestapo-like war against Hispanic immigrants, inclusive of their arbitrary arrest, imprisonment and banishmednt to foreign torture prisons, without a glimmer of due process

Such egregious acts, weakening the Nation’s spirit and resolve, could never be as empirically successful if imposed by a foreign enemy, regardless of the efficiency of its insidious program of espionage.

The contextual travesty of the Trump Presidency is not the only instance of a flawed Presidency. Andrew Johnson’s shameful, forced removal of the Cherokee Nation and other indigenous tribes from their fertile ancestral home in the Southeast, to the dusty, infertile, and windy “proper Indian Territory” of Oklahoma (Indian Removal Act of 1830) was analogous to Trump’s authorization of a black-hooded assault, analogous to the nightmarish Nazi “Kristallnacht,” but arguably less sxuc dessfully genecidal. Andrew Johnson’s impeachment for illegal political appointment is, in general, factually similar to Trump’s shamefully egregious self-interested cabinet appointments of completely incapable and systemically immoral, but loyal, officials, judges, and Cabinet Officers. Nixon’s derogation of the Nation’s criminal law (“Watergate) was unprincipled and arrogant, as is Trump’s universal disrespect for the Constitution and the law of the land; however, the latter’s universality of miscreance exceeds the former in its ubiquitous universality and sustained impact.

We have witnessed the historical event in which Donald J. Trump has, at long last, indisputably, established himself as a “winner,” albeit of the perverse competition for the gold medal for human depravity.

“Mazel Tov!”

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