Fabricating Emergency, Displaying Petty Tyranny

BY DECLARING A NATIONAL EMERGENCY where none exists, by abusing the enumerated powers of the constitution and his responsibilities as chief executive, Donald Trump has fully revealed himself to be the petty tyrant we have long supposed him to be, and has signed into the law the instrument of his own inevitable demise. The forthcoming national uproar of protest will further diminish his already shrunken moral stature as a the leader of a great nation, as even his political supporters find themselves trapped between the woeful choices of supporting the insupportable, or forsaking their morally bankrupt leader. If a foreign army were invading American territory, if an earthquake, massive flood or hurricane, or severe drought were ravaging the landscape, if the nation were in dire peril of any sort whatsoever, then a declaration of emergency would not only be appropriate, it would be mandatory. Nothing of this sort whatsoever is manifest. The alleged "emergency " is nothing other than a sham, a spiteful ruse intended only to enhance the president's support among his thuggish legions of hateful supporters, a villainous, shameful ploy to gain political capital. Evidently entirely unaware of the implications of his own words, the president said: "I didn't have to do this. I just wanted to get the wall built faster". In other words, his declaration of emergency was optional. Obviously, declarations of real emergencies are not optional, but are immediately, urgently necessary. Give this president credit for at least never making any real attempt to disguise his own dishonesty. He seems to pathologically believe that whatever he says is true, merely because he said it. The false emergency consists in thousands of desperate, hungry mothers and their children flocking towards the United States border seeking legitimate asylum, seeking, only as a last resort, whatever help they can find to save the lives of themselves and their children. If they were Norwegians Trump would find no fault with them, but, alas, they have the wrong skin pigmentation, and that is their only crime. Among trump's shrinking number of supporters thoughtful citizens are a rarity, but those who are understand the disastrous consequences of this action. the next president of the United States will now have at her disposal the option of declaring a national emergency of climate change, a national emergency of epidemic gun violence, a national emergency of drastic economic inequality, and you can be assured that she will not hesitate to follow this president's precedent. Climate change, gun violence, and economic inequality and poverty are truly national emergencies, national emergencies which this president and his supporters ignore, because to them, they are hardly worth mentioning, because to them, they are nonexistent. And so Donald Trump is likely to get his beloved wall after all, and, well, if he wants it that badly, let him have it. congress will probably repudiate this fake national emergency, the president will undoubtedly veto the congressional repudiation, and the declaration of emergency will stand. Money will be plundered from badly needed projects, and the military will be conscripted into the service of constructing a huge, monolithic border barrier of exactly the kind Trump promised his reprehensible supports years ago. if they want it that badly, badly enough to forfeit their moral integrity to get it, let them have it; in the end, it is they who will pay the price for their hateful, vengeful aggression, and the price, you can be assured, will be very dear.