30 April 2018
Price for Trump’s Accomplishments Is Too High
South Korea’s President Moon Jae-in has added his voice to
those clamoring that Donald Trump deserves the Nobel Peace Prize for defusing
tensions on his peninsula. It may be
true that counter-blustering at Moon’s rival, President Kim Jong Un, has contributed
to the latter’s apparent change of heart regarding threats to bilateral and
international relations. However, the
cost of this possible dividend is nearly total abandonment of self-respect by
American citizens.
Not only does the U.S. have to put up with a Chief of State
who is contemptuous of intellectual honesty; but one who is even more
determined than members of his Cabinet to undermine the government he was
elected to lead
1)
by failing to fully staff it,
2)
by contradicting those working for him who have
the nerve to make reasonable decisions based on proven facts,
3)
by disregarding the judgment of legitimate
leaders of the rest of the world in self-delusional reliance on the presumably
unchallengeable global predominance of his country.
In guaranteeing the country’s stability, the Constitution of
the United States of America makes it difficult for its citizens to recognize
and correct their errors. Sadly, a
determined minority of states and people did rebel in frustration over their
inability to convince the rest of the country that their immorality was justified
by commercial advantage. It took a very
costly Civil War to settle that dispute.
Americans ought to be too wise to let a clown like Donald Trump lead
them into virtual self-destruction. Most
of them may have deluded themselves as well into believing that the U.S. has a
government of institutions that are so strong that it will not tolerate foolish
myopia.
Foolishness is not an impeachable offense. However, can it be an effective election campaign
theme? Defeating short-sightedness could inspire the stiffening of a spineless
Congress at the end of 2018; pursuing the same goal can lead to the election of
a national pride restoring President in 2020.
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