DJT cheats, lies to, steals from, or defrauds everyone he has any dealings with. That includes the lonely but vocal 13% of Americans who will fly his flag no matter what he does, those cultists who rejoice with twisted pleasure in watching him wreck our world. Jim Jones only wished he had such a devoted following.
DJT pronounces belligerent judgement on any passing object of attention based on nothing more than which way that person, place, thing, or event strokes his megalomaniacal fur on a given day. There is no consideration for equity, justice, honor, norms, constitutionality, or of the public interest every holder of his office is bound and sworn to protect.
DJT’s endorsement is baseless and fickle because there is no moral or ethical compass guiding this Leviathan of criminality, corruption, moral turpitude, and economic destruction. His wake is blotted with innumerable externalized catastrophes whose victims now number at least as many as those who count themselves as Americans.
When cornered, he and his vassals project his misdeeds onto anyone else in order to create a fog of misinformation and confusion. For example, it’s said that QAnon is rooted in a conspiracy theory that alleges Satan-worshipping paedophiles run a global child sex-trafficking ring. Cultists think members of “the ring” are out to get their Dear Leader. How can anyone fall for such bullshit?! DJT is a charter member of that club!
Too many Americans continue to take part in enabling this monster and his criminal cabal, cheering the thought that at least someone is getting away with murder even if it isn’t them. It is with the consent of an unhinged and rabidly-bellicose minority that he remains propped against the podium, bloviating and lying the days away.
Global calamity is poised in the wings, balanced on a knife’s edge and ready to rain down at the slightest nudge. Human habitat is disappearing by the day as we poison the Earth and drive species to extinction at the highest rate since dinosaurs vanished 65 million years ago. Every year there’s less drinkable water. Climates that have sustained growing human populations for millennia are regularly experiencing heat and humidity too severe for human tolerance. And yet the cult cheers for the removal of even the slightest regulation that might slow our decline.
Engineered economic instability threatens widespread dispossession, hunger, and strife. Social and political tensions are ripping down the veneer of civility that makes good neighbors. War machines of all forms — economic, military, mass disinformation, gangs of badged thugs masquerading as the preservers of peace and order — are grinding full speed ahead as powers clash for primacy while shitting all over anyone who would defend the public’s best interests.
Sociopaths with authoritarian and fascistic fantasies run amok in the halls of power. Elected leaders behave as anointed rulers rather than public servants, wielding power and position in coordination with an ironically-named “capitalist” minority unduly in control of the vast majority of wealth and resources. Yet the cult goose-steps along, rapt with enthusiasm for the same tyranny they used to warn us against.
Is DJT clown or cartoon? Neither. When a clown removes his makeup there is a human being underneath. A cartoon needs an animator who considers the plot more than a blinded mole’s half-step ahead. He is a demidevil, metastasized into a nightmare of global scale. This is the tumor that has been selected to lead us like lemmings, over the cliff and down into the abyss.
Will a conscientious majority stand up and demand that just and punitive action be taken posthaste? Would that even be enough to arrest the downward spiral? Or has America already stumbled too far down the path of 1930s Germany to recover without experiencing shocks and convulsions unknown since Lincoln?
This time there is no American heroism, no allied European defence, coming to the world’s rescue. As a muted and dispassionate observer, I hope you are all stocked up on gold, bullets, gas masks, drinkable water, and iodine.
Yours truly,
Cassandra Clathrate
Epilogue: A friend commented that some will read this essay as long on finding faults but void of solutions, or that any hope is left dark by the smoke of doom and gloom. I think that’s a fair critique. The uncomfortable question is whether there is in fact any possible solution to cure and restore us to a functioning nation united in the common pursuit of justice and equality.
I see only one action we can take as individuals: Register to vote, double-check that you are registered, and VOTE in numbers too big to rig. Vote by mail, drop box, early in person, or on election day if necessary. I am away from home and plan to drive nearly 1000 miles round-trip in October for the specific purpose of voting early and without the risks now presented by USPS under DJT.
But even if the electoral college turns overwhelmingly against DJT, it is his openly-stated intention to turn over the apple carts and shit on the floor before he is dragged out. So let’s say he loses definitively. Then what?
The only curative solution I can offer is, once the vote is certified, for immediate action by a “majority of either the principal officers of the executive departments or of such other body as Congress may by law provide” to immediately exercise Section 4 of the 25th Amendment of the Constitution of the United States in order to prevent DJT’s minions opening all the hatches and scuttling our proverbial submarine as the days to January 20 count down. Seems about as easy as swimming up a waterfall but parasitic alien worms are eating our country from within and must be removed with all the urgency the Congress and the courts are not known for.
A second and equally important step will be swiftly holding DJT and his entire criminal band of pirates to harsh and enduring account. I’m not going to hold my breath in anticipation that justice will be swift or fair but if appropriate action were taken against these individuals then perhaps we can regain faith that our system still works — even though all the controls installed in the Constitution failed to prevent the abuses in the first place. (This failure is not a deficiency in the system; it is due to repeated bad-faith inaction by the same Congress and judiciary mentioned above.)
I think I might as well bet my money on a roulette ball landing on Blue 37. Seems more likely than the chances either of the above solutions will come to pass.