THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA IS A DEMOCRACY OF REASON AND FREEDOM, AND HIGHER PRINCIPLES BASED ON TRUTH, FUNDAMENTALLY INIMICAL WITH MR. TRUMP'S DIVISIVE INNUENDO AND SNEER WHICH SEDUCTIVELY DISTORT THOSE PRINCIPLES. THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA IS A REPUBLIC THAT NEEDS TO EVOLVE FOR THE BETTER ALONG WITH THE CONSCIOUSNESS AND AWARENESS OF ITS CITIZENS.
THE REPUBLICAN PARTY CAN DO BETTER THAN WHAT WE ARE SEEING TODAY! LOVE OF GOD AND COUNTRY IS BEAUTIFUL AND NOT AN EXCLUSIVE ITEM OF A PARTY. BUT ENTRENCHED INTOLERANCE AND MISJUDGMENT BASED ON CLOSED-MINDED VIEWS PITTING UP ONE SEGMENT OF THE POPULATION WITH ANOTHER IS ON THE RISE.
MOREOVER, THE ENLIGHTENMENT IDEALS LARGELY - BASED ON REASON - NEED NOT OPPOSE ULTIMATELY DERIVING THESE REASONS FROM A TRANSCENDENTAL SOURCE. THIS IS AN ISSUE THAT HAS TO BE CAREFULLY UNDERSTOOD IN A REASONABLE AND NOT FUNDAMENTALIST WAY THAT DOES NOT NECESSARILY MEAN A RETURN TO PRE-ENLIGHTENMENT TIMES. IT MUST BE MORE MATURELY UNDERSTOOD BUT NOT AS SCIENCE, MODERNITY AND HUMANISM CONSIDERED AGAINST TRADITIONALIST RELIGION OR VICE VERSA. THERE EXISTS AN INTEGRATIVE APPROACH THAT NEEDS TO BE KNOWN TO FORM A TAPESTRY THAT HARMONIZES A PLURALITY OF TRUTHS. RECONNECTION (RE-LIGARE), A CONCILIATORY RELIGION IS ALSO POSSIBLE.
BUT MR. TRUMP IS NOT A RELIGIOUS MAN AND HE STILL MANIPULATES GOOD AMERICAN FEELINGS, PREMISES AND AND INTUITIONS BESIDES FRUSTRATIONS STIGMATIZING OPPONENTS WITH AUTOCRATIC TECHNIQUES, CREATING A DISTORTED, BUT EASY-TO-REMEMBER NARRATIVE, MAKING MILLIONS FEEL REPRESENTED BY HIM. HE USES SIMPLE, CATCHY WORDS AND PHRASES. HE'LL ADAPT TO ALL CIRCUMSTANCES AND SAY AND DO ANYTHING THAT PLEASES HIS SUPPORT BASE IN ORDER TO WIN. RELIGIOUS ZEAL IS BEING USED.
THERE ARE TOO MANY SIGNS THAT MR. TRUMP MIGHT BE A PATHOLOGICAL LIAR OPERATING UNDER A "WINNERS OR LOSERS" MENTAL PROGRAM; MORE OF A SELF-PROMOTING SHOWMAN THAN A STABLE AND WISE STATESMAN TRULY ABLE TO KEEP AMERICA SAFE. THIS SHOULD BE OUR GREATEST CONCERN EVEN IF WE ARE ATTRACTED TO ELEMENTS OF CONSERVATISM.
IN OUR INTERCONNECTED AND COMPLEX WORLD TODAY IT IS NOT ANYMORE ACCEPTABLE TO BE SWAYED BY A PERSONALITY (PERSONALITY WORSHIP), OR A MATTER OF WANTING TO BELIEVE IN THE PARTY WE'VE TRADITIONALLY VOTED FOR. IT IS NOT A MATTER OF SIMPLE POLARIZING IDEAS OR OF BEING TOLD WHAT WE LIKE TO HEAR IN ORDER TO MOTIVATE OUR SUPPORT AND BELIEF. WE NEED TO KNOW WHAT MOTIVATES US, BE ABLE TO SELF-RECTIFY, BETTER KNOW CLEAR FACTS AND UNDERSTAND AMBIGUITIES.
WE MUST REALLY GROW UP AND COLLECTIVELY LEARN TO DISCRIMINATE MUCH MORE CAREFULLY OVERCOMING BLIND GROUP ALLEGIANCE. THE SAFETY OF THE NATION AND OF THE WORLD IS IN THE HANDS OF THE NEXT ELECTED PRESIDENT! I'D RATHER ELECT A REASONABLE CENTRIST THAN A CHARACTER-IMBALANCED REFORMER. AND THIS APPLIES EVEN MORE SO TO ELECTING A U.S. PRESIDENT!
COULD IT BE THAT THE EXISTING ELECTORAL SYSTEM REQUIRES A MAJOR OVERHAUL AND THE WAY DEMOCRACY AND POLITICS IS PRACTICED NEEDS TO EVOLVE WHILST MAINTAINING KEY FOUNDATIONS? HOW MUCH OF MORAL, COGNITIVE AND POLITICAL PSYCHOLOGY NEEDS TO BE TAKEN INTO ACCOUNT?
PRESIDENT BUSH SR, A FORMER CIA DIRECTOR, GENERAL COLIN POWELL, WARREN BUFFETT, THE REPUBLICAN CLUB, MAJOR NEWSPAPERS (LIKE USA TODAY) AND MANY MORE OUTSTANDING AND REASONABLE PATRIOTS ARE WARNING US. AMERICA AND THE WORLD COULD BE IN DANGER. THEY KNOW. I JUST FOUND THAT THE HARVARD REPUBLICAN CLUB HAS SERIOUS ENOUGH DOUBTS THAT IT WILL NOT ENDORSE MR. TRUMP EITHER. ALSO READ DAVID CAY JOHNSTON "THE MAKING OF DONALD TRUMP" TO UNDERSTAND IF HE IS A SHREWD MANIPULATOR SERVING HIMSELF AND (PERHAPS) "HIS CLOSEST ALLIES" OR A GENUINELY CAPABLE AND NOBLE SOUL SERVING THE COLLECTIVE. CONTRACTORS HAVE NOT BEEN PAID AND THE LIST OF GRIEVANCES INDICATING AN UNFIT CHARACTER GOES ON. ITS TOO MUCH TO REMEMBER AND, PERHAPS FOR SOME, TOO EASY TO FORGET.
THE DONALD DOESN'T CLEARLY DISTINGUISH BETWEEN DICTATORSHIP AND LEADERSHIP AND MAY DANGEROUSLY OVERREACT IF TAUNTED AS IF THE U.S. HAD THE CAPACITY TO ENTER INTO CONFLAGRATIONS WANTONLY. AND HE SELDOM ADMITS MISTAKES. BASICALLY, 70% OF WHAT HE STATES AS FACT IS MISLEADING OR INACCURATE. HE HAS NOT REVEALED HIS TAX RETURNS. IS CONSORTING WITH RUSSIAN INTERESTS. IS MEAN-SPIRITED, USING ENTRANCING PHRASES LIKE "CROOKED HILLARY" AND "LOCK HER UP" TO REV UP FRENZIES AND INCITE ADORATION. HE WANTS TO WIN BY COMPARING WITH HIS CONTENDERS CONVEYED AS "OTHERS" WITH WHICH RECONCILIATION IS ALMOST IMPOSSIBLE. THOSE THAT THINK DIFFERENTLY ARE NOT NECESSARILY "ENEMIES."
HIS QUESTIONED FORTUNE BUILDING PROCESS DOESN'T NECESSARILY TRANSLATE INTO GOOD GOVERNANCE SKILLS. HIS ATTITUDE IS WAY TOO STRONG AND MAY ENDANGER NATIONAL SECURITY. HE WANTS TO UNDO THE DOT FRANK. THERE ARE MANY DISAPPOINTED STUDENTS WITH THE NON- ACCREDITED TRUMP UNIVERSITY. HIS BRAGGADO IS INSUFFERABLE TO THE WELL-EDUCATED.
TONY SCHWARTZ, CO-AUTHOR OF "THE ART OF THE DEAL" WITH D. TRUMP STATED: "HE WAS A LIAR THEN; HE IS A LIAR NOW." HOW MUCH MORE VOTERS NEED TO ACE IN THIS LITMUS TEST FOR THE STATE OF AMERICAN DEMOCRACY IN ORDER TO COME TO THEIR SENSES? CHANGE IS DESIRED ON THE RIGHT AND ON THE LEFT BUT, PLEASE, NOT UNDER THIS MAN! A SELF-CONGRATULATORY, STRANGELY OVER-CONFIDENT MAN SELLING US AN OVER-IDEALIZED IMAGE WHILE NOT ACCEPTING GRAVE PERSONAL MISTAKES. AN IRASCIBLE, TEMPERAMENTAL MAN LIKE UNABLE TO ADMIT ERROR SO AS TO MAINTAIN HIS APPEARANCE OF STRENGTH BEFORE OTHERS WOULD BE A DANGER WITH THE NUCLEAR CODES AT HIS DISPOSITION.
BUT WHY ARE SO MANY WELL-INTENTIONED PEOPLE FALLING FOR TRUMP? WHAT HAS THE REPUBLICAN PARTY ALLOWED ALL THESE YEARS FOR ITS ELECTORAL BASE TO ELECT A POPULIST THAT COULD BE THE UNDOING OF THE GOP? IS IT A "MY PARTY, RIGHT OR WRONG" MIND SET THAT HAS GROWN OUT OF PROPORTION? ARE TRUTH AND FACTS A THING OF THE PAST IN OUR CURRENT "VIDEOCRACY" AND ONLY SIMPLE BUT LASTING EMOTIONAL IMPRESSIONS MATTER? IS IT BECAUSE A PERCENTAGE OF HIS SUPPORTERS TEND TO BELIEVE IN PRIMAL AUTHORITY FIGURES?
I EXPECT THAT A COMBINATION OF DISSATISFACTION WITH THE ECONOMIC AND POLITICAL SYSTEM AND YEARS OF OVER-SENSITIZING, BLAME-BASED, RIGHT-WING NARRATIVES PROVIDED THE FERTILE GROUND. IN OTHER WORDS, FRUSTRATION AND EXTREMIST NARRATIVES HAVE ADDED UP OVER THE YEARS CREATING A FERTILE ELECTORATE RESONANT WITH MR. TRUMP'S APPEAL. IN THIS CONTEXT, MR. TRUMP'S MESSAGE RESONATES EMOTIONALLY AND OFTEN AS CONVINCING AS A RELIGIOUS FEELING.
KEY IDEAS ARE ALSO USED TO RESONATE WITH THE CHRISTIAN RIGHT BUT HIS ATTITUDE IS WAY TOO PATHOLOGICALLY "PRO STRENGTH" AND THAT IN ITSELF MAY ENDANGER NATIONAL SECURITY.
BUT ARE WE MIRED IN THE ENTERTAINMENT CULTURE SO MUCH THAT FACT-CHECKING DOESN'T MATTER ANYMORE? IS IT LIKE WHAT MATHEW INGRAM SUGGESTS IN HIS 09-27-2016 FORTUNE MAGAZINE ARTICLE?: "The biggest problem with fact-checking the Republican candidate is that he seems to have a reality-distortion field that applies to his fan base in which even if he tells what appears to be a lie, he is seen as telling some larger truth."
IF THIS LACK OF INTEREST FOR FACTS IN THE POPULATION IS PART OF THE PROBLEM, THEN THIS NEEDS TO BE RESISTED BY A VERY CONSCIOUSLY-ADOPTED, LONG-TERM, EDUCATIONAL POLICY IMMUNIZING AGAINST THE ZOMBIFYING EFFECTS OF DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY AND MASS MEDIA ENTERTAINMENT BECAUSE GOVERNING WITHOUT CARING ABOUT FACTS IN TODAY'S DELICATELY BALANCED WORLD IS COMPLETELY UNTENABLE AND UNJUSTIFIED.
AGREEING WITH EVOLUTIONARY PHILOSOPHICAL-POLITICAL THINKERS LIKE JEFF SALZMAN AND STEVE MCINTOSH, I THINK THERE THAT A NEW EVOLUTIONARY STAGE OF POLITICAL INFLUENCE IS EMERGING. WE COULD CALL IT THE AGE OF THE POSTMODERN, EGALITARIAN, PLURALISTIC GREEN POLITICAL AWARENESS, REASON FOR WHICH BERNIE SANDERS IS MORE POPULAR WITH THE MILLENNIALS. THIS MAY ALSO BE WHY SEGMENTS OF THE CONSERVATIVE POPULATION (AND A HEALTHY CONSERVATISM IS ALSO NECESSARY) STILL NOT INTUITIVELY CONNECTED WITH CLARITY TO TRUTH PRINCIPLES THAT MAKE TRADITION AND MODERNITY COMPATIBLE, MAY BE OVER-REACTING AS AN ALL OUT, CULTURAL WAR SEEKING TO PRESERVE WHAT THEY FEEL AS THE CRUMBLING OF THEIR INTERPRETIVE REALITY SYSTEM. AND LARGE SEGMENTS IN BOTH THE RIGHT AND LEFT HAVE BECOME READY FOR FUNDAMENTAL CHANGES AS THEY CONTINUALLY EXPERIENCE THAT THE POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC SYSTEM IS STEADILY BECOMING DYSFUNCTIONAL.
THE POLITICAL POLARIZATION WE SEE NOW IN PART ENTAILS THE FACT THAT, IN ORDER TO MAINTAIN THEIR SELF IDENTITIES MANY INDIVIDUALS DISSATISFIED WITH THE SYSTEM HAVE ALSO BEEN GRADUALLY DEVELOPING AND ACCEPTING FACT-DISTORTED, DICHOTOMOUS, EXTREME NARRATIVES IN ORDER TO PRESERVE KEY ELEMENTS OF WHAT THEY CONSIDER MOST VALUABLE. THE CULTURAL SOIL HAS BECOME FERTILE FOR EXTREME CRITICISMS AND OPINIONS AND FOR BEING PRONE TO ELECT A PERSON THAT INSPIRES FROM A GUT LEVEL WHETHER HE IS CAREFUL WITH FACTS AND WHETHER HIS EGO IS SUITABLE OR NOT.
I EXPECT REASONABLE AND MODERATE CONSERVATIVES TO VOTE FOR HILLARY THIS TIME AND THEN TO REFORM THE REPUBLICAN PARTY FOR A CANDIDATE LIKE TRUMP NOT TO ARISE AGAIN. I ALSO MRS. CLINTON AND BOTH THE REPUBLICAN & DEMOCRATIC PARTIES TO DISTANCE THEMSELVES FROM THE HEAVY CORPORATE INFLUENCE THAT HAS ALREADY BEEN CALLED A "PLUTOCRACY" AND AN "OLIGARCHY" BY SOME RELEVANT POLITICAL SCIENTISTS. WE NEED EVOLUTION-ACTUALIZATION AND RECONCILIATION WITHIN AND BETWEEN THESE PARTIES.
I EXPECT THAT IF MR. TRUMP WERE ELECTED MANY EXTREMELY INTOLERANT INDIVIDUALS WOULD FEEL IMPLICITLY AUTHORIZED TO ACT UP THEIR FANTASIES. MANY INTERNATIONAL ALLIES WOULD FEEL UNCERTAIN. VOTING FOR TRUMP IS LIKE VOTING TO PLEASE A CHARISMATIC ALPHA MALE CATERING TO A SIMPLISTIC WIN-LOSE, HERD-LIKE, PSEUDO WARRIOR MINDSET. IT AMOUNTS TO A RETROGRADE NEED, A FASCISTIC FASCINATION WITH POWER; A MAFIA-LIKE PULSION INFECTING SOCIETY. LIKE "THE GODFATHER" ( A UNIVERSE ROTATING AND GRAVITATING AROUND HIM) HE IS BOUND TO BE 'KIND' ONLY WITH THOSE FAITHFUL TO HIM AND MANY WANT TO BELONG TO THE 'IN-GROUP'.
BUT THOSE GOING-ONS DIMINISHED ANY INTELLIGENT AMERICAN DISCOURSE NECESSARY AND ADAPTIVE TO THE WORLD'S CURRENT SITUATION AND IT RISKS TO MATERIALIZE AS A STRUCTURE, INSTITUTIONAL AMERICAN FUTURE BEYOND ITS CURRENT SEMI PLUTOCRACY/WELFARE CORPORATISM STATE INTO A NEW TYPE OF TECHNOCRATIC FASCISM IN WHICH THE USE OF FORCE IS UNCONSTITUTIONALLY AND UNETHICALLY JUSTIFIED. IT COULD TRUMP DEMOCRACY INTO A DE FACTO DICTATORSHIP AND QUICKLY ERODE PLURALIST, HUMANITARIAN, REASONABLE FREEDOMS, CONSTITUTIONALITY AND LAWS.
TRUE PATRIOTISM AND LOVE OF GOD REQUIRES MUCH MORE TEMPERANCE AND NATION BUILDING FROM A LEADER; NOT SO MUCH ENERGY DEDICATED TO ESTABLISHING INTOLERANT, DISTORTED-BELIEF-BASED, UNCRITICAL, "STRONG MAN" SOLUTIONS. IT REQUIRES RECONCILING AND EDUCATING IN WAYS THAT ELICIT MUTUAL RESPECT AND COOPERATION. WE SIMPLY CAN'T AFFORD SOMEONE WHO DOESN'T KNOW HOW TO LOSE.
RECOGNIZING INTEGRAL CONCEPTUAL, ETHICAL AND SPIRITUAL ELEMENTS THAT CAN BE THREADED TOGETHER IN A COMMON NARRATIVE CONNECTING PRE-MODERN, MODERN AND POST MODERN IDEOLOGIES AND SENTIMENTS SHOULD BE THE NECESSARY WAY FORWARD AND QUITE HEALING. BUT IT MUST BE DONE CAREFULLY, NOT DISMISSING (FROM A PSEUDO INTEGRAL UNDERSTANDING AND HUBRIS) ELEMENTS AND TRUTHS DISCOVERED ANY OF THESE DEVELOPMENTAL STAGES.
