President Trump was praised a year and change ago for his first de facto State of the Union address, although it was not officially called the State of the Union.
Many were suggesting that he finally was beginning to conduct himself in a professional, even presidential, manner.
Of course, it did not last long. How could it, after all? Trump is Trump. Both his enemies and his allies recognize that much as fact.
Yes, Trump will be Trump, and so we cannot expect him to reign in the insults, to say one thing and do another, to praise himself and give himself credit for everything good that happens, and to divorce himself or deny any responsibility for anything bad. We cannot expect him to suddenly be a statesman, to gain some crucial understanding that might shift his positions with immigration, with a clean environment and alternative energy development, or with his obvious preference towards increasing the privileges of the wealthiest Americans. And by now, you certainly cannot realistically expect him to stop his ridiculous tweets, or to not make a fool of himself on a daily basis.
Donald Trump is modern America's answer to some of the unqualified imbeciles who served as rulers in ancient Roman times. Nero may have played the fiddle while Rome burned, but Trump fiddles with his stupid tweets while the country falls, and let us be very clear and make no mistake about this: Trump is very much actively accelerating the nation's decline, both with his policies, as well as his bad behavior, from which he continues to seemingly receive complete immunity.
Indeed, in a very real sense, Trump represents the worst excesses of the modern day United States. I do not want to keep repeating that quote by Paul Thomas, since I have done so already numerous times here. But indeed, the man we collectively, as a nation, elected to our highest office represents excess and unchecked greed and a hungry, petty, angry sense of entitlement. He is a rich and powerful man, much like we are a rich and powerful nation.
But so was Kennedy, and JFK was not a moron, like this man is. Kennedy was young and seemed to embody a certain youthful vibrancy and idealism that inspired the entire nation, and on many levels, the world. Trump, by contrast, embodies a childlike bitterness for not getting what he wants, when he wants it. Many in the United States remember better times, and they want them back. But you cannot get them back by turning your back on being an adult and taking a serious and sober approach towards things. While millions of Americans indeed can think more capably than this, they seem to be caught in a broken and rotten political system that at least appears blatantly fixed, used as a tool to benefit the most privileged, to defend and even increase those privileges. It is unsustainable and is doing the opposite of fixing the nation's problems, and that is why so many people feel completely disgusted by Trump like they never have with any other president before, even George W. Bush, who was truly awful.
Obviously, it is no secret that Trump likes power. He wants to exude power, and that is why he keeps saying and doing things that no one else could get away with, because power means being excluded from the limitations that are placed on the rest of us. Until we as Americans stop allowing abusers of power like Trump to get away with this, it will keep happening. Trump might be the worst that we have seen to date, but we said the same thing about George W. Bush a decade ago. And we have seen so-called "Teflon Presidents," from Trump now to Bush to Clinton and to Reagan. Nixon ultimately had to pay for his crimes, although it took some time and some doing. Since then, Americans seemed to have an aversion to seeing their own leaders diminished in the public eye, to the point that we now have blatant arrogance and stupidity in power, time and time and time again. Again, Trump is the worst that we have seen to this point, but if we keep going in this direction, we will likely see someone even worse than Trump rise to power. How could we not?
Trump keeps getting away with it, because we as Americans allow it to happen. Those who are vehemently opposed to Trump, and want to reign in his power, continually find ourselves failing in this task, and getting angry when he literally laughs and mocks and calls us names, which he has never been above doing. But then again, many Trump opponents - and I have been guilty of this myself - take too much pleasure in mocking the man and his stupidity. We delight in little things that, ultimately, not only do not matter, but play right into his hands. When we call him or his supporters stupid, we may get some angry satisfaction, but then again, he won the election, when nobody thought he could, right? We relish when we discuss the small crowds at his inauguration or the diminished viewership for his State of the Union, but he nevertheless is making news headlines for having these. Despite all of the abuses, despite all of the criminal behavior, we wake up each morning with news headlines from President Trump, good or bad. This man does not deserve to be there, yet we do not know how to take him out, and I think it is because we, too, are addicted to the power that he exudes. Until we realize this and allow big names and characters to be taken down, we can expect this trend to continue.
We have made it virtually unthinkable for a President to be thrown out of office, and it has only officially been fully done once in our entire history, although Nixon surely was going to get thrown out had he not resigned first. After that, Americans understandably wanted to avoid that kind of scenario again. However, it seems that we focused on the image first, and the process was made more difficult, when it should have been reversed. We wanted to believe ourselves special and unique, and Watergate tarnished that image and added still more skepticism to our nation, at a time when the nation was still reeling from the Warren Commission Report and the Vietnam War. We should have realized that there was too much greed and desire for power grabs on the political front, and guarded against these. Instead, we made sure that future presidents would not be so easily compromised and reviewed, when we should instead have strengthened our own ability to keep corrupt politicians from gaining too much power. That was our choice, but until we recognize the error of our ways, then and now, we will continue to have "leaders" like Trump who continue to abuse their power, and in the process, the trust of the American people that they supposedly represent.
Obviously, it is no secret that Trump likes power. He wants to exude power, and that is why he keeps saying and doing things that no one else could get away with, because power means being excluded from the limitations that are placed on the rest of us. Until we as Americans stop allowing abusers of power like Trump to get away with this, it will keep happening. Trump might be the worst that we have seen to date, but we said the same thing about George W. Bush a decade ago. And we have seen so-called "Teflon Presidents," from Trump now to Bush to Clinton and to Reagan. Nixon ultimately had to pay for his crimes, although it took some time and some doing. Since then, Americans seemed to have an aversion to seeing their own leaders diminished in the public eye, to the point that we now have blatant arrogance and stupidity in power, time and time and time again. Again, Trump is the worst that we have seen to this point, but if we keep going in this direction, we will likely see someone even worse than Trump rise to power. How could we not?
Trump keeps getting away with it, because we as Americans allow it to happen. Those who are vehemently opposed to Trump, and want to reign in his power, continually find ourselves failing in this task, and getting angry when he literally laughs and mocks and calls us names, which he has never been above doing. But then again, many Trump opponents - and I have been guilty of this myself - take too much pleasure in mocking the man and his stupidity. We delight in little things that, ultimately, not only do not matter, but play right into his hands. When we call him or his supporters stupid, we may get some angry satisfaction, but then again, he won the election, when nobody thought he could, right? We relish when we discuss the small crowds at his inauguration or the diminished viewership for his State of the Union, but he nevertheless is making news headlines for having these. Despite all of the abuses, despite all of the criminal behavior, we wake up each morning with news headlines from President Trump, good or bad. This man does not deserve to be there, yet we do not know how to take him out, and I think it is because we, too, are addicted to the power that he exudes. Until we realize this and allow big names and characters to be taken down, we can expect this trend to continue.
We have made it virtually unthinkable for a President to be thrown out of office, and it has only officially been fully done once in our entire history, although Nixon surely was going to get thrown out had he not resigned first. After that, Americans understandably wanted to avoid that kind of scenario again. However, it seems that we focused on the image first, and the process was made more difficult, when it should have been reversed. We wanted to believe ourselves special and unique, and Watergate tarnished that image and added still more skepticism to our nation, at a time when the nation was still reeling from the Warren Commission Report and the Vietnam War. We should have realized that there was too much greed and desire for power grabs on the political front, and guarded against these. Instead, we made sure that future presidents would not be so easily compromised and reviewed, when we should instead have strengthened our own ability to keep corrupt politicians from gaining too much power. That was our choice, but until we recognize the error of our ways, then and now, we will continue to have "leaders" like Trump who continue to abuse their power, and in the process, the trust of the American people that they supposedly represent.
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