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President Trump, shortly after his singularly smelly election, declared emphatic comparisons with Elder Republican Abraham Lincoln. Early on, he described Lincoln as his kindred political soul, admired mentor, and the former President he was destined to most resemble in spirit and success; Presumably not including assassination causing an abrupt end to his second term in office, won by a landslide-- even if mainly because the ancestors of many Trump loyalists were not in a northern political position to vote that year. More recently, President Trump, not one to drop names of people who don't actually exist outside his own narcissistic imagination, relayed the uninvited twitter message, People tell him, apparently hoping for the privacy of anonymity, that he is already the greatest Republican President in US history, including Abraham Lincoln, Who would be so supportive of Trumpian caging of children, supportive of DT's mockery of women, of people with disabilities, of those homeless, of people poor, criminalized traumatized by violence... The list goes on in a remarkably non-Lincolnesque non-spiritual unChristian snarky kind of way. I imagine the President has heard Lincoln's observation about trust so necessary for even a quasi-healthy democracy, "You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you can't fool all the people all the time." President Trump isn't known for being a reader outside consuming twitter posts and Fox non-news banners, but it seems he might have heard, possibly read, this Lincoln proverb as a challenge, or just went with optimizing the promise that he could fool some people all the time-- good enough for government work. President Trump made it clear, even before his Inauguration Day, that only those people who could appreciate the splendorous beauty of his naked narcissistic garments and greed would: 1. get to heaven, 2. become TrumpMedia empowered to hate multiculturally resilient democratic constitutions and healthy co-governance systems. Speaking of aphorisms, this night of January 6th, my ecosystemic soul bows to the post-full moonlight remembering, "It is always darkest just before dawn." I grab onto this hope, but then realize Whoever knows this to be true from experience could only speak this with reassurance after the first hint of emergent light to the East, source of sacred light and EarthlyPower. Is this as dark as fragile democracy and patriotic civility must fail this self-governing experiment? I can't quite yet see an Eastern sky of fading stars although I would love to be vision corrected, perfected to see light and power in this climatic polarized time of win/lose ecopolitical rabidity, eating our children's future, wasting their water and formerly fertile soil, and decimating shading fruitful trees. I can imagine a yet darker hour. I can imagine my children speaking with their grandchildren about vanquished land and water mammals, the improbable kangaroo and porcupine and skunk About former forests of mature trees, huge plants strong rooted and reaching up and out much taller than the tallest remaining human; now aging memories of neighbors lost forever. Earth's elder democratic, healthy, polycultural, living biosystems might well survive our species, The only one that appears motivated to elect leaders invested in fooling all the people all the time, of ignoring the rights and pleasures, truths and beauty of all "lesser" species and "weaker" people, now reduced to natural commodities throughout Earth's darkest hours of greed and envied powers.
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