If one clicks on the link below one will see the changes Melania Trump visited upon a
once gorgeous rose garden just in time for the Republican convention of
harsh cruelty. She uprooted beautiful trees placed in the garden by
John F. Kennedy as well as colorful gorgeous roses and other flowers put
in by President Obama. The link is aptly entitled: "Americans
Recoil In Horror After Melania Rips Trees Planted By JFK Out Of White
House Rose Garden." The journalist Howard Fineman in a Tweet says "The
Trump family did its best to turn the lovely Rose Garden into a
neo-fascist parade ground." It is, by its appearance, a sterile and
empty garden. I agree with his thought.
When
I began my attempt to
understand political thought I would constantly be thinking about the
differences between left and right. The left in the extreme was
Communist taking many
concepts from Karl Marx and Frederich Engels in "Das Capital" and the
"Communist Manifesto." The extremes of left and right have
similarities for sure but the one characteristic of those on the left
that the right does not possess is
a feeling of empathy for the little guy and a disparagement of undue
corporate power. The right wing, polar opposite to the left, makes no
pretense of empathy. States like Nazi Germany, Brazil or Mussolini's
WWII Italy become partnerships between corporate power, the military and
barbaric enforcement for life of the authoritarian
power of the state itself. Putin's modern day Russia is a good example.
Yes, Communist states like the historic Mao's China and N. Korea
control the means of production and the extremes often possess ruling
characteristics of each other. Any challenge to power is met by the
force of the state to crush it. Still, the alleged philosophy behind
leftist states pays at least lip service to humanitarian concern.
In a Fascist state one gives me the autocratic power and I will allow and,
indeed use, corporate power to ensure the entrenchment of those who own
things and those who occupy the seats of power. This is a loose
conception of how I believe the left differs from the right. Obviously,
there are degrees but extreme nationalism and the racism that buttresses
it are the province soley of the right.
I am not a Marxist or a Communist as
those structures are a failure, but I do believe government should exist
to benefit those who have the least and that government should lend a
helping hand when those without power need it. I believe massive
corporate money should pay its fair share of tax so that those who were
not the luckiest in life derive benefit from those who have it all.
Melania's
jacket said everything when she visited the children her husband
cavalierly put in cages at the border. It said "Do I care?" The answer
to that is a resounding no! She does not care. I place her in the
same category of her zero
empathetic and cruel husband. They both do not care. They care about
two things: the maintenance of their power and the corporate money that
sustains
and massively enriches them. This was exactly why Trump ran for the
presidency to make himself richer by any means necessary. I believe
both Trump and Melania have a sterility of character -- unfeeling and
non empathetic which the empty appearance of Melania's garden
reflects. Howard Fineman was right. It is a neo-fascist parade
ground. Cast your eyes upon the before and after pictures of its
sterile sight.
