It seems like the partisan argument for removal of Donald
Trump from office is not the most pressing reason to be concerned. His criminal behavior is well documented over
the past 2+ years since he has been in office.
Whether or not he is actually impeached is almost beside the point.
The Republican party has abandoned any notion of
Constitutional process, so there would never be an actual removal of him from
office. Republicans have corrupted our
two-party system by eschewing the rule of law and the governmental rules that
our republic has followed for 242 years.
All I have to say is: Mitch McConnell.
What is of greater concern is the chaos that is becoming
apparent throughout the world as a result of Trump’s constant presence in the
spotlight. Chaos is increasingly the
operant condition all over.
How do we define chaos?
It is complete disorder and confusion.
It is the utter disorganization of things. Chaos is a condition that provokes stress and
anxiety. It is a vicious re-enforcing
circular condition…..chaos provokes stress which provokes increased chaos
causing more stress…etc.
And chaos is caused by events or conditions that defy
reality or the truth. As a human being
is exposed to event after event, or statement after statement that defies
reality or truth, the structure that a person creates in their own mind to
organize their lives is subject to corruption.
As Americans, the truths that we use to organize our society
revolve around honesty, integrity and the rule of law. If those constructs are corrupted day after
day by chaotic conditions, a person will eventually come to question what his
reality is. It is a known fact that if a
statement is repeated over and over again, it eventually can become perceived
as truth, even though it is by all measures simply a fallacious statement.
That is what is happening today in America. Our President, the one person who we look to
for guidance; for interpretation of complex domestic and world events is simply
not providing us with consistent truth or perception of reality. He lies
constantly and creates his own reality, which we can all see is false. There is no guile in his method. He lies in ‘plain sight’ and masses of people
simply accept it as truth or simply don’t care if it is true. Trump’s professional and personal history is
testament to his dwelling in chaos: three turbulent marriages; bankruptcy after
bankruptcy; business enterprises skirting the law and fleecing his customers,
etc.
So what is the effect of that? Relationships around the world with our
allies are muddied. Our allies are
uncertain of what has become of our values and creed. Our citizens have become numbed to the
constant stream of falsehoods that come from Trump and his minions. Because we cannot predict what he will say or
do, and how it will conflict with our own perceptions of truth and reality, we
are paralyzed. We wait for each emanation from either his tweeter or his
mouth. Our ability to predict and plan
is corrupted. We don’t know how the
rules of our lives as proscribed by our system of laws will be corrupted.
Trump’s actions and statements are not concerned with established norms
and rules. The rule of law is not part
of his reality, so we cannot rely on his leadership to guide us as citizens.
We have slowly descended to a level of perception of what
our government is doing that approaches chaos.
And chaos that is unending will eventually lead to failure of our
organized society.
There are so many indicators that chaos approaches. Here are a few examples, some that I have
lifted from the headlines just to make my point:
--in an article about the accelerating trade war with the
Chinese, Scott Kennedy, a senior
adviser at the Washington-based Center for Strategic and International Studies
who studies Chinese economic policy
said, “This is now extremely delicate because the Trump administration,
through its brinkmanship tactics, has destabilized the entire relationship,
commercial and otherwise,”
--in an
article about the recently released scientific analysis by NASA and the State
Department about the increasing peril of climate change and what it will mean
for national security, White House officials
barred a State Department intelligence agency from submitting written testimony
this week to the House Intelligence Committee warning that human-caused climate
change could be “possibly catastrophic.”
Trump officials
sought to cut several pages of the document on the grounds that its description
of climate science did not mesh with the administration’s official stance.
--In an editorial in the
Washington Post, a political science professor writes about how his students
are questioning the concept expressed in the Federalist Papers that the 200
year +veneration of the foundational law of the nation prevents the instability
and collapse of the republic. Yet Trump
is eroding it: “His election and subsequent behavior is diminishing respect for
the entire system the Framers created. And once people lose faith in the
constitutional order, politics can spiral out of control.”
--In his Fox interview at
the 75th anniversary of D-Day Trump said we pay 100% of the defense
of all the EU countries, in addition to several other false statements. This is simply false! And yet no one calls him on it. The world at large is left to just accept
that as fact. This happens time after
time and is an everyday occurrence.
--Business experts say
industry and corporate interests don’t know how to plan because of erratic
trade policies and inconsistent policy decisions.
--Our allies cannot count
on the US for any consistency in foreign policy. What was a 70 year sharing of values has
disintegrated with Trump’s actions and behavior with respect to our global
allies and cozying up to global dictators.
Chaos is closer in all
our realms than we have seen in the 71 years I have been on this earth. All the machinations that our political
parties are going through now to try to make sense of our disintegrating
society may not be able to bring clarity to what is happening. If Trump and Trumpism is extended for another
4 years then we will perhaps pass the tipping point that all great
civilizations that have passed into history before us have experienced.
I want to be optimistic
about how all this turns out next November, but without a reversal of the
increasingly chaotic state of our societal systems, there is an increasing
chance of passing the point of no return.
We can rest assured that
if Trump is re-elected, the accelerating change of our climate change
extinction level event alone will overtake any possible solutions for our
political future. Global social upheaval will make attempts to maintain social
order all but impossible.
Can you see how important
the control of chaos is?
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