A human being that future historians will explore - eager to uncover every aspect of his persona, all the minutia of his growing up, all the sadness, the cascade of disappointments, his father’s mean-spirited nature sharp as a knife cutting through his son’s sensitivity and demolishing any sense of wholeness. This president’s deeply felt paranoia and agonizing fear will be noted in depth and analyzed with precision. The rage forever boiling to the surface will be subject to extensive study and interpretation.
Volumes of noteworthy and scholarly dissertations will be published as well as appropriate references to other powerful men whose irrational fulminations have shaped humanity’s darker history. The number of times such men have been elevated to positions of extreme power over the course of human history is too voluminous to even contemplate.
In the United States, it is quite surprising that within a representative Democratic Republic, where the government’s primary role is to serve all the people, a majority of voters would choose a presidential candidate who is a self-proclaimed advocate of white supremacy, mistrustful and openly hostile to science, a climate change denier, who knowingly spread falsehoods and vicious accusations about the nation’s immigrant population with the goal of dehumanizing them, and actually was involved in an attempt to overthrow a duly elected government on Jan 6, 2021.
Given the divisiveness, uncertainty and instability created as a result of this administration’s policies and pronouncements, our international allies have lost trust in the United States as a reliable and dependable proponent of democracy. This is a serious issue with wide implications for the future.
It may very well be up to the coming generations to speak out regarding these issues and become actively engaged in implementing a paradigm shift in nationally held values and beliefs – the status quo is not sustainable.
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