Tag: history

Blogpost # M. 446 THE PERIPATETIC FRANCHISE

The right to vote is, inarguably, the existential dynamic of a Democratic polity. It is the singular route to a “government by, and for, the People,” as envisioned and provided by our Nation’s Founders.

Electoral fraud or voter fraud involves illegal voting in, or manipulation of, the voting process. Objective history has shown, in fact, that voter fraud is extremely rare in the United States; nevertheless, false accusations do have an active history, especially relative to the 2016 and 2020 elections, evincing the singular denial and underhanded tactics of Donald J. Trump. One unforgettable and remarkable example is Trump’s (accidentally televised) telephone request of the Georgia Secretary of State to “find” an additional number of (empirically determinative) votes in his favor. The reader will, no doubt, recall the plethora of exotic conspiratorial ideations tactically conceived by Trump’s MAGA acolytes, some of which, conceivably, may pass muster at Louis Carroll’s “Mad Hatter’s tea party.

The “Will of the People” is a fundamental democratic concept that defines the collective preferences of a community on public issues, usually expressed through elections. It is thematically relevant, in this context, to recall that, in the concept of “general will,” it is the people who are sovereign.

Donald Trump’s bizarre autocratic rule and resultant National dystopia have resulted in an outraged public response. His derogation of the Constitution, trashing of the separation of powers, unilateral declarations of war, and sophomoric imposition of tariffs on America’s trading partners, leading to unbearable consumer prices, Gestapo immigration policies, and demonstrated immorality, have motivated millions of American citizens in New York, Wisconsin, Illinois and several other states, as well as smaller communities to effect a plethora of huge public demonstrations in the amount of millions of concerned citizens in demonstrated rebellion against Trump’s autocratic and hubristic rule.

Such unprecedented, enormous citizen protests are, inarguably, expressions of the will of the people as valid and articulate as the citizen voting franchise; they represent the peripatetic vote and will of the people, voting with their feet; which cannot be tactically distorted.

-p.

Blogpost # M. 438 BEATIFICATION OF A SCOUNDREL

Considering the plethora of fully subscribed dumpsters, overflowing with the putrid detritus of the aberrant Trump Presidency, any attempt to select the most instructively typical of his egregious acts would seem to be a lengthy undertaking. Even the most casual, disinterested citizen is now, at least, marginally aware of his mismanagement and innate incapacity (as well as his record of shameless dishonesty) to serve as Chief Executive. Trump’s neurotically motivated policies and actions have inarguably borne the imprint of ignorant incapacity and abject rule.

The incisive citizen has perceived in the demonstrated neurotic persona of Trump a self-motivating lust for public esteem and recognition of unequivocal success, which has empirically interfered with the responsible execution of his electively assigned duty to consider, as paramount, the interest of the American Nation above his need to establish himself as a singularly worshipped Saint.

The miscreance of Donald Trump is so extensive as to empirically defies complete description; the range includes multiple acts of bombing and declaring war, unilaterally, and without the mandated consent of Congress, to the cruel dismissal of medical and food aid to the. needy, raising and supporting a Gestapo-style, masked army to prosecute resident immigrants, without due process, illegally and unconstitutionally enriching himself and family in contravention of the Constitution and the societal moral compass, persecuting higher education and the Nation’s established media, supporting insurrection against the government, polluting the voting franchise, befriending our Nation’s despotic enemies, demonstrating financial fraud, to include 34 felony convictions by jury trial and a plethora of federal criminal indictments; (the latter in (procedural in limbo, due to his office) and, sadly and shamefully many others.

Added to this overflowing cornucopia of shame are the many instances of hubristic presumption including the barbaric destruction the East Wing of the Nation’s White House, ignorantly and unauthorisingly imposing tariffs on our trading partners, disparaging the vital existence of NATO, decapitating the bulk of our Federal Civil Service, including Health Research Agencies, the atavistic withdrawal from the environmentally vital “Paris Accords,” regarding environmental health, autocratic program of “retribution” against his political opponents and other acts of moral and democratic miscreance too numerous to satisfy the stereotypical dimensions of a “blogspace. It is, however, appropriate to charge Trump with the demolition of America’s constitutional tripartite architecture (Separation of Powers) the Republican Congress being universally attacked by the immovable disease of Catatonia and of SCOTUS’ political metamorphosis.

Notwithstanding the above-pervading citations of transmogrifying polity due to the toxic influence of Donald Trump, we would confidently maintain that there are two personal acts of Donald J Trump that in fact, best portray his sociopathic persona.

(1) Early in his presidential campaign, a television reporter with the unfortunate display of the shaking symptoms of traditional palsy bravely and professionally attempted to interview him. Instead of furnishing replies to the questions, Trump cruelly entered into a cruel, televised burlesque of the shaking body and wavering voice of the courageous reporter.

(2) Recently, at a televised official meeting with the systemically (ethnic) polite Prime Minister of Japan and her entourage, the smirking orange hazmat made a crude joke about the Japanese familiarity with the topic of “surprise attack.”

The recollection of the latter two instances will, for us, forever appropriately and sufficiently will singularly serve as an accurate portrait of the abject persona of our sitting Chief Executive, without the necessity of further citation.

-p.