U.S.A.: The Land of the Free, Home of the Brave is a Country Owned by the People, Not a plutocracy
The Trump Administration would coerce allies to treat the U.S. as an imperial company that they either must pay to play with, or be acquired by. The implication of this is that the people of the U.S.A. are not free, but are now represented by an autocratic CEO or president.
Yet the U.S.A. is not a company at all, much less one where a forceful CEO tells shareholders how things will be. No, the people, all the people of the U.S.A., like the shareholders of a company, are the owners of the U.S.A., whether in the majority or minority on company decision making in their name. And it is akin to a public company, not private.
A strong CEO or President is one thing, but a dictator to the owners of the country and its government is anathema to Americans. Americans won’t allow it in the end, and will end it before the end.
Americans take down empires and make them join the human race. Americans laugh at Hitlers and Stalins with derision, and when these vaunted, sick men try to dominate the world, they have met their ends with American help. Americans don’t worship vain, power-bloated men or women that believe they are gods and whose sycophants bid the rest of America worship them raise up golden statues and idols of them.
The people have not ceded ownership of the U.S.A. to this or any president, and must never do so. They tried it with George Washington and Washington gave their freedom back to them before they lost it. George Washington taught Americans how to escape age-old autocracy to become a free nation and stay a free nation. January 6th was the opposite of George Washington’s example. Don’t believe me? Then tour Mt. Vernon for a day and see for yourself. The ideas and character there would one day lead even to evolution out of the slavery that built the estate where those freedom ideals in part were seeded, germinated, grown through emancipation, and development of civil rights law toward equality under the law that would protect all minorities perpetually, and more.
Neither will shareholders cease to be owners of companies unless the companies become sovereign dictatorships that disregard the rule of laws governing the human relationships that make-up the company, including the customers. If they do, they become little governments. Little plutocracies. That’s not what the U.S.A. has ever been about, however, in their proper place, strong leaders can make a positive difference in multiples and exponents if they step down and hand the baton to the next freely elected, fairly elected American who will also represent all Americans as president.
Mr. Trump and Mr. Vance will come to understand this one way or another. The sooner, and willingly, the better for the United States, for them, and our allies around the world. The core strength of Americans is not selfishness, but the same kind of values Ukrainians show in their defiance of the KGB robot running Russia into the ground now who wants to do the same to Ukraine yet again, as if the democide and neglect of the past qualified him to do so.
And so the performance in the White House, if not staged to deceive our adversaries, marks the beginning of the end of the wrong-headed, misguided, and increasingly evil autocracy that some small minded men think equals leadership. It doesn’t and never will.
