Trump must be stopped
Just what does it mean to be civilized? It means to come out of a primitive or savage condition and into a state of “civilization” which is a high stage of beneficial, cultural and moral development. Now, does a particular power of a situation in life influence human behavior? Of course!
Just read the Herald-Standard, watch the local and national news on television. Now along this line of thought, consider the following questions: 1. Do you think you know yourself? 2. Think you can be the master of life situations that arise that overcome most other people? 3. Do you think you are civilized enough not to be turned into a depraved individual? (and the “you” could be a country). Sound like nonsense questions? Maybe. The following quote may want you to rethink them:
From Laurence Rees’s book, “Auschwitz: A New History” consider the following: (an inmate who risked his life to escape Sobibor, a Nazi German concentration camp in Poland where 250,000 Jews were murdered) had this to say: “People asked me, ‘What did you learn?’ and I think I’m only sure of one thing – nobody knows themselves.
“The nice person on the street, you ask him, ‘Where is North Street?” and he goes with you a half block and shows you and is nice and kind. That same person in a different situation could be the worst sadist. Nobody knows themselves. All of us could be good people or bad people in these (different) situations. Sometimes when somebody is really nice to me, I find myself thinking, “How will he be in Sobibor?'”
Now, I am not suggesting we could be living in another “Sobibor;” my above lengthy introduction lead me to think of “The Donald.” You consider yourself a thoughtful and moral person; you thought you knew yourself and then along comes Donald Trump and rearranges your thought processes. You think Trump is the “master of political situations” and his ideas are sound and you go along with his distorted thinking. Of course, you are not a “depraved” individual, but given enough misinformation from Trump, will your “civilized” thinking take you and this country on a free fall into a political abyss?
Life’s circumstances can change us from good to bad people: “Nobody knows themselves.” Come to know your true and moral self; don’t allow a misfit, a specious and scurrilous person like Trump, with his seemingly endless harangue, persuade you to swallow his awful and degrading ideas about how to run our country.
“Know thyself” as some ancient luminary once said. We need to be sober and thoughtful in what is, at the moment, a horrendous political atmosphere and not allow Donald Trump, who has neither the credentials, intelligence nor personality, to sit in the White House and call himself president of the United States Of America!
Edwin Lefevre is a resident of Monessen.