If memory serves, in some exam halls, institutions of higher learning peg the examinees/pupils “candidates.” Shades of (of all things) politics. Question. Better late than never, can we the people make bold to demand that our news sources (ostensibly, watchdogs of our leaders) examine (via ONE SINGLE STANDARD, for a change) each presumptive nominee at the top of this year’s ticket?
Call it remedial vigilance. Last time I checked (earlier today), a cult of openly seditious fact-fraggers looked to be riding God-awfully high (and mighty) in the polls.
Voila: two nominees-to-be. In effect, they beg an analogy to an elementary math exam.
One passes with flying colors. The other (who anoints himself He Who Would Be Dictator On Day One) reckons and ciphers along the lines of 1+2 = 17. And x + y = QAnon squared. Plus, if you have 12 bison in Buffalo and Rudy Giuliani rustles half of them, you wind up with 169 camels in Cleveland.
In truth, such daftness as Trump’s inability to tell WWII from WIII sticks out like a sore coup attempt. And there’s nothing much new under the Constitution. Like it or not, report it or not, the specter of bad, corrupt, imbecilic, plutocratic governance has been in the offing since Day One. To George Washington, Thomas Jefferson wrote “the day will come, when a[n]… aristocracy will change the form of our [state and federal] governments from the best to the worst in the world.”
That fraught, prophetic quote concludes Lee Fang’s highly acclaimed 2013 tome The Machine: A Field Guide to the Resurgent Right.
To quibble (a tad) while (hopefully) underscoring Fang’s far-reaching, fundamental thesis: with admirable overall clarity, he calls our 21st Century aristocracies-come-lately “non-hereditary.” In truth, such all-too-hereditary dynasties as Bush, Koch, and the multi-generational, rabidly racist smearers (including the KKK-touted Trump) of President Barack Obama have enjoyed widespread carte blanche; said media ‘watchdogs’ have turned blind eyes, deaf ears, wet tongues, what have you.
Somewhat like math, history adds up (or not). To cede control of our first drafts (or first dafts) to Trump-Teflonizing, J6 normalizing boobs cannot bode well. Anyone who can’t resolve as much needs to be classed a fool. A useful idiot. And, yes, a licentious dunce- who, by effectively aiding and comforting our unslaked, unchecked, seditious Trump-eters, commits king-size crimes, indeed.
