Donald Trump's Approach Present a Threat to Our Social Fabric.
The internal and external initiatives – including the effort to overturn the election in the past to latest actions and threats – undermine both domestic and international law. The implications are broader.
These actions jeopardize the fundamental meaning of a civilized world.
A moral purpose of a functioning society is to stop the more powerful from preying upon and using the vulnerable. Otherwise, we would be locked in a brutish war where only the fittest wins.
This concept is embedded of the nation's founding texts. It’s also the core of the modern framework of international relations supported by the America, emphasizing multilateralism, democracy, human rights, and the legal authority.
Yet, it is a fragile principle, frequently ignored by those who seek to abuse their power. Upholding it necessitates that the influential have the moral fortitude to abstain from seeking immediate gains, and that the public hold them accountable when they fail.
Unfettered might is not right. It leads to turmoil, disruption, and conflict.
Whenever individuals, companies, or nations that are advantaged target and use those that are not, the structure of civilization frays. Should such behavior are left unchecked, the system fails. If not stopped, the world can plunge into chaos and war. It has happened before.
Our current reality is a international landscape with deepening divides. Authority and resources are more concentrated than in recent memory. This encourages the elite to leverage their position against the weaker because they perceive themselves as above the law.
The fortunes of a handful of tycoons is difficult to fathom. The reach of major corporations in technology, energy, and aerospace covers numerous countries. Artificial intelligence is poised to centralize resources and influence further. The destructive power of the world's largest nations is unprecedented in recorded history.
Supported by a compliant faction and an accommodating high court, the presidency has been made into the most powerful and unaccountable entity of the state in recent memory.
Combine these factors and you see the threat.
A clear connection ties past lawless actions to ongoing menaces. These were based on the arrogance of omnipotence.
One observes much the same in international affairs: in territorial invasions, in expansive ambitions, and in the rampant monopolization by massive conglomerates.
However, unfettered might does not create right. It fosters instability, revolution, and bloodshed.
The lessons of the past reveal that rules and conventions to check the influential also shield them. If these guardrails are removed, their insatiable demands for increased control and resources eventually cause their collapse – and with them their corporations, nations, or empires. And threaten global conflict.
This kind of contempt for legal order will haunt America and the global community – and indeed civilization – for the foreseeable future.
