What goes through Trump’s mind is unfathomable, and that is not because he outshines Stephen Hawking.
His latest incarnation as El Conquistador bears this out.
Of all the things that need to be dealt with by our next president, what does Trump decide to prioritize? Taking Greenland, annexing Canada and threatening Panama about control of the Canal.
So some questions arise.
Do these things somehow create a patriotic fervor that unites us as a nation? Do they amplify our sense of national well-being? Can anybody possibly take these sideshow pronouncements seriously, let alone demand they happen?
Does anyone really think that buying Greenland is a matter of national security, or that the United States can simply annex Canada?
Is this even sane?
I know people who think it is. So I have answered my own question.
A former guiding principle of our country was Manifest Destiny. Our current guiding principle evidently is Manifest Insanity. And that leads to another question.
Are these verbal slights of hand: “Look! Look over here!”? And the mark looks over here, while over there is where the real action is. Such distractions are almost standard practice.
Trump is known for his “bombasticisms” that mostly amount to nothing more than inciting followers, who now are incitement junkies: They need inciting; they not only gotta have it, they gotta have more, and more is what he gives them, regardless of the consequences.
Is that what talking about seizing Greenland and Panama and Canada is, jabber for junkies or solid international policy?
Josh Joswick
Bayfield
