And I would now add...the failure of "We the People" to amend the hell out of our currently dysfunctional Consitution.
Dear Editor, (not printed in WPost.)
I didn’t need to read “Where did the GOP’s road to Trump
begin” (March 26, 2023) to know that the most fundamental reason won’t be
mentioned. It’s like the air we breathe
and has been taken so much for granted that we can’t see it. Yet the reason was expressed succinctly by Jen
Easterly, Director of CISA (Cyber and
Infrastructure Security Agency) our nation’s newest federal agency Trump
created. She
said “Everything is connected, everything is interdependent, so everything
is vulnerable.... And that’s why this has to be a more than whole of
government, a more than whole of nation [effort]. It really has to be a
global effort....” [Oct. 29, 2021] And
until we the people grasp this fundamental principle chaos will continue to spread
to “Everything everywhere all at once” documentary on our failure to listen and
learn.
Trump and other populist and autocratic leaders have popular
support and are gaining ground simply because they promise to protect what remains
for their people in this era of accelerating global chaos. Growing interdependent chaos that cannot be
stopped by border walls, treaties, sanctions, powerful militaries, or elections
within independent nations using independent agencies.
Our current global governance system was engineered to
protect national sovereignty. Not inalienable human rights or the
environment. The UN system cannot stop this global chaos of
connected and interdependent problems most people are experiencing now and rightfully
fear. The “four “C”s that pundits refer
to: Covid, Conflict, Costs, and extreme
weather disasters from Climate change. World
leaders continue to put the protection of their nation's interests, national
sovereignty, and corporations above the protection of fundamental human rights
and the environment. Until we are
‘woke’ enough to demand the reversal of his flawed system prepare for more
chaos “Everything everywhere all at once”.
Chuck Woolery
Former Chair of United Nations Association Council of
Organizations
Rockville MD.
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