The Former President's Approach Constitute a Danger to Civilization.
His internal and external strategies – from the challenge to the democratic process previously to recent actions and threats – weaken both national and global jurisprudence. The implications are broader.
They jeopardize the very concept of what we mean by.
The guiding principle of any advanced culture is to forestall the more powerful from preying upon and using the vulnerable. Otherwise, we risk being trapped in a brutish war where might makes right could survive.
This ideal is central of the Declaration and Constitution. This is also the foundation of the postwar international order championed by the America, built on collective action, democracy, fundamental freedoms, and the rule of law.
But, it is a delicate construct, frequently ignored by those who seek to abuse their influence. Maintaining it demands that the influential have enough integrity to abstain from seeking short-term wins, and that the public hold them accountable should they falter.
Unchecked strength is not right. It leads to instability, chaos, and war.
Every time entities that are advantaged prey upon those that are less so, the fabric of our shared norms weakens. If such aggression are left unchecked, the system fails. Allowing it to persist, the world can fall into disorder and conflict. It has happened before.
We now inhabit a society and world marked by extreme inequality. Influence and wealth are more concentrated than in recent memory. This invites the powerful to leverage their position against the weaker because they act with a sense of omnipotent.
The fortunes of a small group of tycoons is almost beyond comprehension. The reach of major corporations in technology, energy, and aerospace extends over much of the globe. AI is poised to centralize economic and political clout to a greater degree. The offensive capability of the major powers is unprecedented in the annals of time.
Supported by complicit legislators and an accommodating supreme court, the presidency has been turned into the most powerful and unaccountable agent of state power in recent memory.
Consider this confluence and you perceive the threat.
A clear connection ties past transgressions to present-day threats. Each were based on the hubris of omnipotence.
There is much the same in international affairs: in territorial invasions, in coercive diplomacy, and in the global depredation by industrial titans.
However, strength without restraint does not establish right. It makes for uncertainty, upheaval, and armed conflict.
The lessons of the past reveal that rules and conventions to check the powerful also protect them. Without such constraints, their endless appetite for more power and wealth in time cause their collapse – and with them their enterprises, countries, or domains. And pave the way for world war.
This blatant lawlessness will plague America and the global community – and indeed civilization – for the foreseeable future.
