By way of introduction...
I am one of the American people to whom politicians fondly defer when they seek approval for...well, everything. I can no longer hear the phrase without feeling a loosening of my bowels.
I am certainly not the first to cry our political system is broken. In fact, this cry is now woven into the political patchwork. For every earnest complaint of systemic dysfunction, an up-and-coming politico cries he/she is the one to fix it.And then our Quixote rushes into the grinder only to be reconstituted as villain he or she promised to slay.
Donald Trump is a narcissist. This is not news. Sadly, of all the aberrant personality disorders, narcissism is seen as annoying and irritating but not dangerous. Let the narcissist be self-absorbed. So what if the narcissist is an egomaniac? What harm is there in that?
True narcissists, such as Trump, believe they are above the petty ruminations and traffic of we ordinary folk. Since they are special, pedestrian institutions such as laws do not apply to them. When they encounter an annoying encumbrance, something that stands between them and their wants and gratifications, they simply ignore it, break it, circumvent it or destroy it. A case can be made that a teenage narcissist, while insufferable, is limited by circumstance wit h respect to how much damage this individual can inflict.
When the narcissist is the most powerful person in the world, the potential damage is inestimable because this individual has all the resources, all the mechanisms and all the sycophants willing to do this person's bidding. This is the Trump administration. It is not an administration; it is a cabal comprised of obsequious, weak-willed, spineless individuals who see Trump as their ticket to more power, more wealth, more everything.
Donald Trump cares nothing for our democratic institutions. Our laws? No; they do not apply to him. Donald Trump cares only for adulation and gratification. He will continue to trample the Constitution until he is called to the mat. His coterie will continue to defend his trespasses because it knows without Trump, it will implode.
We, the people, must rebel.If we need instruction, we need only look to Hong Kong. I am not advocating violent protests. I am advocating we rise up and tell our electorate, "ENOUGH. We elected you to office to improve the lives of Americans. Not to promote the agenda of a few; not to enrich a few more; not to destroy the planet. We elected because we believe you are honorable and just and integrity sufficient to guide you when you draft laws."
We say to our elected officials: IF YOU CANNOT PERFORM THE DUTIES OF YOUR OFFICE WITH INTEGRITY, HONESTY AND TRUTH, YOU ARE NOT FIT TO HOLD OFFICE.
And when our declarations fail to affect change--as they most certainly will--, we must remember Thomas Jefferson's words, "I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical."
I am certainly not the first to cry our political system is broken. In fact, this cry is now woven into the political patchwork. For every earnest complaint of systemic dysfunction, an up-and-coming politico cries he/she is the one to fix it.And then our Quixote rushes into the grinder only to be reconstituted as villain he or she promised to slay.
Donald Trump is a narcissist. This is not news. Sadly, of all the aberrant personality disorders, narcissism is seen as annoying and irritating but not dangerous. Let the narcissist be self-absorbed. So what if the narcissist is an egomaniac? What harm is there in that?
True narcissists, such as Trump, believe they are above the petty ruminations and traffic of we ordinary folk. Since they are special, pedestrian institutions such as laws do not apply to them. When they encounter an annoying encumbrance, something that stands between them and their wants and gratifications, they simply ignore it, break it, circumvent it or destroy it. A case can be made that a teenage narcissist, while insufferable, is limited by circumstance wit h respect to how much damage this individual can inflict.
When the narcissist is the most powerful person in the world, the potential damage is inestimable because this individual has all the resources, all the mechanisms and all the sycophants willing to do this person's bidding. This is the Trump administration. It is not an administration; it is a cabal comprised of obsequious, weak-willed, spineless individuals who see Trump as their ticket to more power, more wealth, more everything.
Donald Trump cares nothing for our democratic institutions. Our laws? No; they do not apply to him. Donald Trump cares only for adulation and gratification. He will continue to trample the Constitution until he is called to the mat. His coterie will continue to defend his trespasses because it knows without Trump, it will implode.
We, the people, must rebel.If we need instruction, we need only look to Hong Kong. I am not advocating violent protests. I am advocating we rise up and tell our electorate, "ENOUGH. We elected you to office to improve the lives of Americans. Not to promote the agenda of a few; not to enrich a few more; not to destroy the planet. We elected because we believe you are honorable and just and integrity sufficient to guide you when you draft laws."
We say to our elected officials: IF YOU CANNOT PERFORM THE DUTIES OF YOUR OFFICE WITH INTEGRITY, HONESTY AND TRUTH, YOU ARE NOT FIT TO HOLD OFFICE.
And when our declarations fail to affect change--as they most certainly will--, we must remember Thomas Jefferson's words, "I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical."
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