Ladies and Gentlemen: Please fasten your seatbelts and
secure your tray tables in an upright position… because there’s no way around this
particular storm and it is going to get very bumpy before we get clear of it.
Yet another consequence of the Donald appearing on the
political scene is a threat to democracy not really seen before. That risk? The
consequences, coming and going, of situation specific incompetence in a
candidate who is a potential leader of the nation.
I can’t speak to the overt consequences of such
incompetence, of course not, I no more than you no more than they have any way
to know just what the subject or focus of the incompetence might turn out to be
in some real world - live to the world situation where a temper tantrum might
unleash the terror of modern warfare.
But what all of us need to cast a thought across is this:
no matter how gross it gets it is an IMMENSE danger to democracy to
even think about trying to establish some formal structure to certify political
competence as a condition of candidacy. That job MUST remain the sole
domain of the voters at the polls.
Gentle reader, such a certifying process as that would be
one of the quickest ways possible to finish off the job of gooking out America,
totally destroying real democracy and allowing the puppet masters and the
Corporate Neo-Fascist to claim the victory over freedom. The last thing in the
world we as American’s need is have the already massively suspect loyalties of
the education establishment in conjunction with some grouping of the existing political
status-quo empowered to play Central Committee (yes, think good old Marxist-Leninist
COMMUNISM on that one) in regards as to who is and who is not competent
enough to be allowed to run for office. That translates as instant oligarchy
and deadly choke point on the democratic process identical to what destroyed
the Soviet Union in a matter of only sixty some years.
Don’t do it, America. Don’t even think it. Just vote against
what you know CAN’T do the job, and reform and rework your primary processes to
pick better candidates in the future.
I thought about that possibility and rejected it as undemocratic. But if the election doesn't go Trump's way, I fear another Kristallnacht and what might follow. Yep, I got my belt fastened and my helmet buckled...
ReplyDeletePoliticians are the foam at the crest of a wave within society... and the anger that supports Trump is (imo) justified well past the 80% line. Figuring a way to spend the energy of that anger in some non-destructive way is the challenge that the remainder of the pack are hiding from... both here and abroad. Context: the picture below... TALLYHO!
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