One of the features that makes democracy unique as a
form of political coexistence is that it allows those who aspire to
destroy democracy and establish a totalitarian regime to participate
within its framework and play the democratic game. The United States
of America was born from the struggle against tyranny and became a
land of promise and a beacon illuminating the path for democracies. A
century ago, the United States severed its transatlantic ties with
European democracies, ties forged with the blood of young Americans.
But after the end of World War I, the United States fell into
isolationism and did not choose to be the democracy that would
promote democracy in Europe, instead taking refuge in the comfortable
cushion of investing in Europe and disregarding the political factors
that favored the rise of Italian fascism and the Nazi regime in
Germany.When the Atlantic alliance with Europe was
defeated in 1945 and forged anew, every president since then has
understood that the link with European democracies and with the rest
of the democratic systems of the free world was indispensable for the
security of the United States itself. This link between the United
States and European democracies, as well as those of the rest of the
world and of that other world that aspires to achieve democracy
because it suffers under totalitarian regimes, is being threatened,
and not by a foreign power. The threat comes from the United States,
whose president prefers to discuss business with the totalitarian
President Putin and communist China rather than defend Europe from
the Russian threat. Repeating the mistakes of the past will only lead
to the advance of totalitarianism throughout the world, without the
reference point of having the greatest democratic power as an example
and as an ally. If megalomania replaces debate, if the
arrogance of being divinely blessed replaces sound advice and
perspectives for addressing problems, and if profit becomes paramount
regardless of the human cost, then the United States would be
betraying the Constitution, and whoever governs in this way must be
removed from power by the very people who brought them to it.
Continuing to impose its will through threats and blackmail primarily
weakens American citizens and other democratic societies, where old
forms of totalitarianism—territorial aggression aimed at
territorial expansion, as Russia is attempting in Ukraine, and where
China and North Korea are constantly blackmailing Asian democracies,
which no longer see the United States as a staunch ally. In the
Americas, the war on drugs must be a genuine war, not a bargaining
chip with communist dictators who facilitate the flow of drugs into
the United States. Neither imperialism nor religion should be the
United States' roadmap, because that would mean the end of what we
have known as democracy and would instead make the world more
dangerous, condemning citizens who will ultimately pay the price for
the delusions of grandeur of those who see politics as a business,
even if it leads to tragedies and a high cost in human lives.
God Bless America
Perry
Morton Jr. IV
Owner and Editorial Director of The Adversiter Chronicle
