The Matter At Hand

 As predicted, the dinosaur’s destructive tail of a dying culture, in the ensuing years after Trump’s rise to power, has left a wasteland in which encroaching fascism seeks to establish a permanent foothold. We are now confronted with the question regarding how best to turn back the dark tide of authoritarian rule and thereby preserve the democratic experiment here in America. Erstwhile policy issues will now have to yield to preserving the basic institutions of free and fair elections, basic human rights, and an impartial judiciary. Recent experience has demonstrated with chilling effect that a democratic mode of political existence is not guaranteed but rather must be cultivated, nurtured and actively practiced through the real-time application of its principles. A failure to do so will certainly give rise to the merchants of hate, fear, division, and cynicism that have emerged from their hiding place and are now presenting themselves as a very real threat to an otherwise vibrant and emerging multicultural society.