The Disgraceful, Dangerous Moral Decay Afflicting the United States Today.
Siem Reap, Cambodia, June 10th, 2024.
Salaroche

A convicted felon is leading in the polls for the 2024 Presidential elections. Do I need to say more to describe the moral decay afflicting the American people these days? Not really, but I will. For that very same leading candidate keeps insulting and delegitimizing the American Democratic and Judicial Systems and the American people not only praise his offensive kind of talk, but have also accepted it and taken it for the truth and, for many, such demagoguery is the reason that they want him back in power.

Shouldn’t this be enough to illustrate the American moral decay in question? It should, but it isn’t. For such moral degeneration wouldn’t have reached the menacing proportions it has reached today had it not been for the unconditional support that such convicted-felon-candidate gets from one of the two major political parties in the country.

One thing is to have the masses of uninformed or misinformed people fall for the inflammatory rhetoric of a devious, seditious, venomous pied piper, a totally different thing is to have the whole apparatus of a political institution vested across time with such traditional and influential power as the “Grand Old Party”, backing wholeheartedly such insidious anti-American individual.

Shouldn’t this be enough to prove the moral decay I’m talking about? It should, but it isn’t. In a dire sociopolitical situation like the one I’m describing, we could at least find solace and comfort knowing that the highest judicial authority in the land still stood for American Democracy and the rule of law.

Yes, we could, but we actually cannot, as the Supreme Court of the United States has already shown a couple of glaring signs that at least some of the influential justices that constitute it (i.e., Alito and Thomas) are in favor of delegitimizing our Democratic System.

In so doing, those justices are delegitimizing their own judicial authority and, by extension, delegitimizing the whole American Judicial System. How did it all come to this? Have you stopped for a moment and asked yourselves such simple question?

Obviously, Donald Trump didn’t by himself generate this ominous situation. Trump didn’t plant the seeds of sedition that have been germinating lately. He just nurtured them with the sewage gunk spilling out of his foul mouth that he has conceived in his putrid, amoral mind.

The anti-Democracy seeds that are germinating today were already deeply rooted in the minds of those ill-willed Americans that have always belonged to noxious institutions like the Federalist Society, the Heritage Foundation and the like.

As the situation stands today, the American right-wing intelligentsia has already joined the ranks of the MAGA forces. All it would take now is to have a few Generals joining them and we would have the propitious, perfect scenario for a typical Banana-Republic power grab in the United States of America. A farfetched idea? Maybe. But still conceivable.

There’s no telling where the present situation will lead to when large numbers of Americans have already lost their moral compass.

Salaroche