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An Intriguing Possibility for 2028

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The 2026 elections were surprising, primarily because of the willingness of Republican voters to break ranks with their party in the national interest, to break their traditional voting allegiance seeking instead to attain the broken pledges of Trump’s successful 2024 campaign.  No more wars, concentration on the needs of United States citizens, minimizing corruption.  By contrast, the majority of the Democrats currently serving in Congress and those that will assume office early next January seem inclined to ignore the demands of those who just gave them a majority and to continue along the path set for them by their AIPAC masters.  That was clear in the recent vote to impeach Secretary of War Peter Hegseth.  There, eleven members of the Democratic Party’s contingent in the House of Representatives (all but one beneficiaries of AIPAC largesse) failed for one reason or another to make it to the vote thus saving Mr. Hegseth job; a sort of “the dog ate my homework moment” they expect their electorate to swallow.

The proposed leadership of the Democrats in the next Congress, Hakeem Jeffries as Speaker in the House of Representatives and Chuck Schumer as majority leader in the Senate, Israeli Firsters both, promise more of the same.  Plenty of noise with hearings involving the president, his family and allies but only superficial inquiry into the Epstein scandals and especially continued allegiance to Israel and its perpetual wars and to its perpetual draining of United States’ taxpayers’ pockets leaving little for education, healthcare or the social safety net (although Israel enjoys them all).

Ironically, the foregoing may open an avenue for a return to power by Republicans in 2028, but only if Democratic voters are as willing to put their country ahead of their party as were Republican voters in 2026.  And if, learning from this year’s massive defeat, the GOP selects its presidential candidate from among the current group of Republican America First rebels, e.g., people like Thomas Massie, Marjorie Taylor Greene, Joe Kent, Candace Owens, Tucker Carlson, Nick Fuentes, Jackson Hinkle or Rand Paul.  The amazing thing would be if the new group of democratic socialists in the Democratic Party, both elected officials and voters, joined with those Republicans in seeking a real answer to the clamor for change by NOT selecting their presidential candidate from the current list of favorites, all AIPAC toadies, but instead, by helping form a real bipartisan, America First movement.  Perhaps Democrats like New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani, newly minted senator James Talarico, Cori Bush, Jamaal Bowman, Julia Salazar and Brandon Johnson might bolt their party and join Republican rebels in a national unity ticket.  Wouldn’t that be something?

Notwithstanding how likely the betrayal of their voters (if not their funders) by the Democratic Party’s current and prospective leaders and the bulk of its elected officials is, the likelyhood of a unity movement seems improbable.  But improbable is not the same as impossible and perhaps the awakening of GOP voters’ consciences and common sense can somehow or other, notwithstanding the duplicitous legacy press, infect enough honest, intelligent and sensible Democrats to make a unity ticket that places the interests of the United States first a reality.

Unlikely, I know, but where there’s life there’s hope, and the 2026 midterm elections demonstrated that at least among the voters (if not among the Democratic Party’s current and prospective leadership), there was a trace of decency (instead of polarizing partisanship). 

Perhaps even a trace of life.
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© Guillermo Calvo Mahé; Manizales, 2026; all rights reserved.  Please feel free to share with appropriate attribution.

Guillermo (“Bill”) Calvo Mahé (a sometime poet and aspiring empirical philosopher) is a writer, geopolitical commentator and academic currently residing in the Republic of Colombia (although he has primarily lived in the United States of America of which he is also a citizen). Until 2017 he chaired the political science, government and international relations programs at the Universidad Autónoma de Manizales. Previously, he chaired the social studies and foreign language departments at the Eastern Military Academy in Huntington, New York. He is currently the publisher of the Inannite Review available at Substack.com; an intermittent commentator on radio and television in both Colombia and abroad; and, an occasional contributor to diverse periodicals and publications. He has academic degrees in political science (BA, The Citadel, the Military College of South Carolina), law (JD, St. John’s University, School of Law), international legal studies (LL.M, the Graduate Division of the New York University School of Law) and translation and linguistic studies (GCTS, the University of Florida’s Center for Latin American Studies). However, he is also fascinated by mythology, religion, physics, astronomy and mathematics, especially with matters related to quanta, cosmology and cosmogony. He can be contacted at guillermo.calvo.mahe@gmail.com and much of his writing is available through his blog at https://guillermocalvo.com/.

The Yokes on Us

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The recent United States midterm elections were not an endorsement of the corrupt Democratic Party and its Israeli First leadership but of the corrupt Republican Party and its Israeli First leadership, something which leading GOP dissidents had been warning about for years; dissident leaders like media personalities Tucker Carlson, Candace Owens, Nick Fuentes and Jackson Hinkle, like former director of the National Counterterrorism Center Joe Kent, like members of Congress Marjorie Taylor Greens and Thomas Massie and current Senator Rand Paul.  The election in numerous aspects was a mirror image of the 2024 elections when the electorate rejected the Israel First leadership of the Biden administration thinking that in Donald Trump, the United States public would finally come first.  The “yoke” was on us.  It may well be again.

Instead of reacting to the recent electoral revolt in a sensible, self-preservatory fashion, the Trump administration has instead doubled down on Israeli control of the United States government by appointing Stephen Miller as White House chief of staff.  However, the reality is that even in the Congress that will take office on January 4, 2027 (the 3rd is a Sunday), AIPAC will remain firmly in control having bought and paid for virtually the entire Congressional membership, both Republican and Democratic (518 of the 535 members, 247 Democrats and 268 Republicans[1]).  That is especially true under the current leadership of the Democratic Party, i.e., Hakeem Jeffries, Chuck Schumer and somehow, Nancy Pelosi, Hillary Clinton and Kamala Harris, and that, notwithstanding the rejection of AIPAC by the electorate and by an interesting group of democratic socialist elected as Democrats. 

As with the dissident Republicans, there are great dissident Democrats, especially among the emerging democratic socialist coterie, e.g., Zohran Mamdani, newly minted senator James Talarico, Cori Bush, Jamaal Bowman, Julia Salazar and Brandon Johnson, among others.  Unfortunately, the legacy media will do all it can to obfuscate the dissidents in both parties and preserve Zionist political hegemony.  And the legacy media will warn us of impending disasters as we are purportedly threatened by Muslim hoards seeking to impose Sharia law throughout the United States, or hordes of immigrants seeking to change the nature of United States society, or communists who hate us because of our purported freedoms, or crazed liberals (or reactionary conservatives, take your pick).  Or of imminent Russian or Chinese domination.  Or perhaps soon, of space aliens seeking to steal the natural resources we’ve plundered from others.

So, what might the future hold? 

Well, most likely, the highly polarized “same old same old” as the legacy media, following the orders of the billionaire class and its very own Deep State (i.e., the military industrial complex against which Ike warned us so many decades ago, now joined by the intelligence community), keep us at one another’s’ throats instead of permitting us to wake and go after those who pillage us constantly through the only form of socialism that is deemed tolerable, the corporate welfare state[2].  And the rich will continue to get richer, much richer, much, much richer (if somewhat fewer), the poor will continue to get, well not poorer, that’s hardly possible, but much more numerous. And too many of the best and brightest among us will be sent off to give their lives and health, both physical and mental, in perpetual wars, watched from afar by the rich and powerful and their families; and when they return (if they do), maimed and psychotic, asked what they’ve done for their masters recently.

Unless, of course, we “the huddled masses yearning to breathe free”, somehow wake up and cast off the yokes that keep us enthralled. 

But how likely is that?
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© Guillermo Calvo Mahé; Manizales, 2026; all rights reserved.  Please feel free to share with appropriate attribution.

Guillermo (“Bill”) Calvo Mahé (a sometime poet and aspiring empirical philosopher) is a writer, political commentator and academic currently residing in the Republic of Colombia (although he has primarily lived in the United States of America of which he is also a citizen). Until 2017 he chaired the political science, government and international relations programs at the Universidad Autónoma de Manizales. Previously, he chaired the social studies and foreign language departments at the Eastern Military Academy in Huntington, New York. He is currently the publisher of the Inannite Review available at Substack.com; an intermittent commentator on radio and television in both Colombia and abroad; and, an occasional contributor to diverse periodicals and publications. He has academic degrees in political science (BA, The Citadel, the Military College of South Carolina), law (JD, St. John’s University, School of Law), international legal studies (LL.M, the Graduate Division of the New York University School of Law) and translation and linguistic studies (GCTS, the University of Florida’s Center for Latin American Studies). However, he is also fascinated by mythology, religion, physics, astronomy and mathematics, especially with matters related to quanta, cosmology and cosmogony. He can be contacted at guillermo.calvo.mahe@gmail.com and much of his writing is available through his blog at https://guillermocalvo.com/.

[1] Specific, per member details available, see “AIPAC Recipients List 2026”, Who Funds My Rep?, available at https://whofundsmyrep.com/rankings.

[2] Well, or else United States funded Israeli welfare such as free health care, free education, subsidized housing and alimentation, etc.

Realistic Reflections on the Blue Tsunami of November 3, 2026

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Hey guys, Cassandra calling.  From Troy, three thousand two hundred years ago.  I’m a prophetess after all.  I hate to stomp on your euphoria but ….

On Tuesday, November 3, 2026, the United States political system experienced a “Blue Tsunami” but, while voters elected more Democratic Party candidates than Republicans, they did not endorse that political party’s leadership.  Instead, they rejected the brutal corruption, deception and immorality in office of “the Donald”, Donald John Trump, which is a very different thing.  In doing so, they joined important Republicans who had already done so, appalled by his the betrayal of his 2024 campaign promises involving putting an end to perpetual war and focusing on economic bread and butter issues, on minimizing polarization and putting America first, they joined people like media personalities Tucker Carlson, Candace Owens, Nick Fuentes and Jackson Hinkle, like former director of the National Counterterrorism Center Joe Kent, like former members of Congress Marjorie Taylor Greens and Thomas Massie and current Senator Rand Paul.  Unlike those honest protestors, the current Congressional leaders of the Democratic Party, Hakeem Jeffries in the House and Chuck Schumer in the Senate, both from New York, are bought and paid for representatives of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) and Israel firsters, as are a major portion of the Democratic Party’s Congressional Representatives and Senators, those who will control the new Congress that will assume its role on either January 3rd or 4th, 2027 (the 3rd is on a Sunday).  While some progressives and democratic socialists won, and that was amazing and heartening, the vast majority of the victors were the same old crowd just waiting for their turn at the trough. So, notwithstanding the wishes of the electorate as clearly indicated in the recent elections, the more things change, the more too many are likely to stay the same.  That President Trump responded to his electoral defeat by optimistically stating the he looks forward to “working” with the new Congressional majority may well tell us more than we want to know.  I was pleasantly surprised that the election took place at all, and that its results were accepted, but in large part that was due to the Supreme Court’s unusual decision not to become involved in support of Trumpian aspirations-

There were superficially positive developments but they are probably largely illusory in the greater scheme of things.  Or they will be without further action on our part.  Real action, not just gripes and complaints.  While AIPAC, which has long controlled both major United States political parties, is facing an apparently unprecedented structural crisis of faith within the United States’ citizenry, its control and Israel’s influence over the Congress and both major political parties is only superficially diminished.  It’s true that for the first time in modern political history we saw marquee progressive candidates win major statewide races, not only in spite of AIPAC’s opposition but by actively campaigning against it, AIPAC still commands hundreds of millions of dollars, owns (or leases) the majority of the Congress and has hundreds of allies in positions of political, economic and military power.  Thus United States foreign policy, where traditionalist Democratic Party legislators are at least as anxious as President Trump to do Israel’s bidding, is unlikely to change in any material manner.  The new Democratic Congressional majority is unlikely to insist that the kidnapped Venezuelan president be released and returned to office, or that the oil plundered from Venezuela be returned.  Or that the rightwing mini-Trumps installed by United States and Israeli intelligence agencies in most of Latin America be replaced in honest democratic elections.  Instead of a quest for peace, they are likely to insist on enlargement of the proxy war against Russia through the puppet regime in the Ukraine and in renewed antagonism against China, especially with respect to its province of Taiwan.  The reality is that now, after the election, the goal of the Democratic leadership, just like that of their Republican counterparts, involves, not the “common welfare” but securing a victory in the 2028 elections.  But perhaps that will require more than just embarrassing Republicans in the executive branch and the Trump family “syndicate” in particular.  Perhaps, for a change, it will require more than just instilling fear in the hearts of potential voters.  Perhaps it will require meeting the demands of the electorate for peace, economic prosperity and an emphasis on the welfare of the United States population, whether citizens or not, rather than filling the coffers of the military industrial complex (now fused with the intelligence agencies into the Deep State) against which Ike warned us so long ago.  But that is not a likely scenario.

At any rate, don’t expect all that much in kept promises.  A thorough investigation into the sickly putrid Jeffrey Epstein saga would embarrass too many Democrats and too many very powerful political donors, and it would provide devastating evidence of the immorality of United States, European and Israeli intelligence agencies for whom pedophilia and murder were and continue to be useful tools.  That is an inquiry which the Deep State will guide into a maze of obfuscation from which, as in the case of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy or the downing of New York’s Twin Towers, verity is very unlikely to emerge.  And as to the quest for peace?  That would eliminate the greatest profit generation enterprise on the planet, perpetual war, which in turn would stem the redistribution of wealth from the populace to the billionaire caste, the only form of socialism Americans are taught to respect.  Thus that too will be deflected through manufactured threats designed to maintain us all in a state of perpetual anxiety and insecurity (beware the Muslim hordes trying to steal our democracy, and the communists and the socialists, and the foreigners yearning to breathe free).  Support by leaders of both major parties for the Zionist quest for a Greater Israel may be obfuscated but it will probably not be diminished, with efforts made to humanize genocide and ethnic cleansing paid for by United States taxpayers.  Those crimes against humanity are, as far as both Democrats and Republicans are concerned, immoral only when our interests are negatively impacted.

There will be plenty of subpoenaing to embarrass Republicans but not enough to effect meaningful change other than, perhaps, electorally, and the response will be plenty of vetoing, resulting in more government gridlock and polarization and the federal judiciary will become more politicized than ever.  Explanations blaming others will bloom and befuddle us all, as usual.  And it is all too likely that we will revert to our instinctive emotional shells, backing the political leaders who got and get us into the messes we and the rest of the world (other than the privileged few) inhabit.

Still, not everything is depressingly pessimistic.  There may be a few rays of hope.  After all, America First Republicans and progressive democratic socialists have somehow germinated out of the political compost that surrounds us.  Thus, notwithstanding the foregoing, there may be an out, but that is not a likely scenario.  It would require us to embrace the democratic socialist rebels in the Democratic Party and the America First rebels in the Republican Party and to select from among them, candidates for the presidency in 2028 rather than from among traditional politicians, politicians like JD Vance or Marco Rubio on the Republican side or Kamala Harris, Gavin Newsom, Pete Buttigieg, Josh Shapiro, Andy Beshear and Gretchen Whitmer on the Democratic side, all of whom are imposed on us by AIPAC and the billionaire caste (interesting name for a band).  Perhaps the electorate will gravitate to people who have rejected AIPAC and its bribes (errr, donations, now to be disguised through a third party maze), people like Joe Kent, Tucker Carlson, Nick Fuentes, Jackson Hinkle, Marjorie Taylor Greens, Thomas Massie or Rand Paul on the Republican side or the newly minted senator James Talarico, or Cori Bush, or Jamaal Bowman, or Julia Salazar or Brandon Johnson in the Democratic Party.  Unfortunately, Zohran Mamdani is not eligible having been born abroad.  But they would have to survive the calumnious brutality of the legacy media and that is a feat rarely accomplished.

So, for now, perhaps all week long, let’s enjoy the sort of defeat of the disgusting, corrupt and hypocritical Trumpian MAGA political parody and its AIPAC masters, but let’s not hold our breath awaiting better times at the hands of their Democratic Party opponents.  Only we, acting together, ignoring fear and focusing on our hope and decency can make a difference; a difference whose goal is not the accumulation of wealth and power or world hegemony but the common attainment of equity, justice and opportunity, of the “common welfare” promised by the United States Constitution. 

The recent election will not take us there but perhaps a door has been forced opened and we can stick a leg in to keep it that way.

At least for a while.
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© Guillermo Calvo Mahé; Manizales, 2026; all rights reserved.  Please feel free to share with appropriate attribution.

Guillermo (“Bill”) Calvo Mahé (a sometime poet and aspiring empirical philosopher) is a writer, political commentator and academic currently residing in the Republic of Colombia (although he has primarily lived in the United States of America of which he is also a citizen). Until 2017 he chaired the political science, government and international relations programs at the Universidad Autónoma de Manizales. Previously, he chaired the social studies and foreign language departments at the Eastern Military Academy in Huntington, New York. He is currently the publisher of the Inannite Review available at Substack.com; an intermittent commentator on radio and television in both Colombia and abroad; and, an occasional contributor to diverse periodicals and publications. He has academic degrees in political science (BA, The Citadel, the Military College of South Carolina), law (JD, St. John’s University, School of Law), international legal studies (LL.M, the Graduate Division of the New York University School of Law) and translation and linguistic studies (GCTS, the University of Florida’s Center for Latin American Studies). However, he is also fascinated by mythology, religion, physics, astronomy and mathematics, especially with matters related to quanta, cosmology and cosmogony. He can be contacted at guillermo.calvo.mahe@gmail.com and much of his writing is available through his blog at https://guillermocalvo.com/.

Probabilities on the First Tuesday following the First Monday in November, 2026

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Reliable projections point to a blue wave on the first Tuesday following the first Monday in November, 2026, perhaps a tsunami, but ….

Seriously ….

What are the chances that the current Trump administration will accept electoral defeat in an existential election, existential because if it loses it will have to face a hostile Congress with subpoena power and the power of the purse and, theoretically (albeit not practically) conviction power following impeachment?  What are the chances when it does not abide by any law, international, constitutional, federal, state or local?  After all, the only moral that counts is Donald Trump’s opinion[1].

Obviously, no matter the results next Tuesday, the presidential pardon power will shield the members of Mr. Trump’s administration and his family (or most of them, some may be thrown to the wolves) from federal criminal liability no matter what (as did the Biden administration), but that does not shield them from prosecution, incarceration or fines at the state and local level.  Then again, a compliant and subservient Supreme Court may well find a way to extend the scope of the pardon power or restrict the power of states and localities to work around it.  But “facts” in the hands of a real press can be dangerous things.  Of course, that assumes a “real press” rather than a subservient outlet for propaganda which hides even more than it distorts.  Still it’s a bit harder to muzzle a hostile Congress with its fingers holding tight to the federal purse.  Better to avoid the problem, but how?

Well, until the unstoppable force hit the unmovable wall in Brazil last week, the United States and Israel had conducted numerous successful experiments in electoral manipulation through the use of “bot” controlled social media spewing false information, algorithmic manipulation, control of electoral software and oodles of cash, indeed, manipulation of public transport seemed that it would be a great tool to assure proper results, at least until a pesky judicial system and idiots in the pro United States/Israeli camp screwed up and the elections were extended.  Still, all but one recent election was steered in the “right” direction, regardless of how voters actually voted and the methods designed and perfected by the “deep state”, now controlled by Trump & Company, can be very effective.  How effective in the United States, where it obviously seems they have been used by both branches of the uniparty since at least the 206 election, remains to be seen.  But it seems a pretty good bet that with an utterly ruthless administration in charge of the system, the polls and projections will once again prove to, amazingly, have been completely mistaken. 

So what if that constitutes a defacto coup d’état.

The sick thing is that such a likely defacto coup against the electorate is only possible (some would say likely), because the other branch of the AIPAC owned uniparty (i.e., the Democrats), when it was last in office, created precedents that their purported opponents can now use, not against them, but against us all. So, we really should at least ask ourselves: “Just how stupid have we been and how negligent in our duty as citizens that the foregoing is not only a possibility but a probability?”

As instructed by both branches of the uniparty as well as the unipress, we’ve voted in favor of purported “lesser evils” for so long that all we have is evil, plutocratic evil in a system where the purportedly sacred constitution is less useful than toilet paper (not to denigrate the immense value of toilet paper).  And we, the stupid, naïve, manipulable voters are to blame, not the army of straw people the uniparty shoves in our faces, i.e., the communists and socialists and Muslims and liberals and progressives and conservatives and libertarians and academics and blacks and Hispanics and racists, etc.

On the other hand, what choices have we had, each seemingly worse that the other in an endless cycle: Bush, Clinton, Bush, Obama, Trump, Biden, Trump!!!  Of course, there were other candidates but our purportedly free unipress kept them safely hidden while urging us not to “waste our votes”.  “Move on, nothing here to see: Ross Perot, Dennis Kucinich, Ralph Nader, Gary Johnson, Jill Stein, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., Cornel West, etc., who the ‘Hell’ were they?”

And who de we have sitting in the wings, according to the latest “polls (assuming Mr. Trump ever relinquishes the presidency, after all, he and his billionaire friends are avidly paying for research into immortality, of the immoral variant):  Well, amazingly, Kamala Harris (if Hillary does not decide to run again); yuck!!!!; and J.D. Vance, or perhaps Marco Rubio, (yuck!!!).

So …. ¿Now what?

Somewhere an immense flock of happy chickens are coming home to roost, their feckless, errr, I mean fearless leader, cackling, suggesting we just lie back and enjoy it.  After all, civic obligations are pretty much of a drag.  Or, to put it another way, a bit more artfully, as recently departed Patrick Stewart once declaimed in his role as Locutos of Borg (perhaps paraphrasing Elliot Brandt): “Resistance is futile. Your life, as it has been, is over. From this time forward, you will service us.” 

Actually, it’s been that way for a while.

Which is not to discourage the reader (hopefully more than one) from following president Trump’s advice to “vote early and vote often”!
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© Guillermo Calvo Mahé; Manizales, 2026; all rights reserved.  Please feel free to share with appropriate attribution.

Guillermo (“Bill”) Calvo Mahé (a sometime poet and aspiring empirical philosopher) is a writer, political commentator and academic currently residing in the Republic of Colombia (although he has primarily lived in the United States of America of which he is also a citizen). Until 2017 he chaired the political science, government and international relations programs at the Universidad Autónoma de Manizales. Previously, he chaired the social studies and foreign language departments at the Eastern Military Academy in Huntington, New York. He is currently the publisher of the Inannite Review available at Substack.com; an intermittent commentator on radio and television in both Colombia and abroad; and, an occasional contributor to diverse periodicals and publications. He has academic degrees in political science (BA, The Citadel, the Military College of South Carolina), law (JD, St. John’s University, School of Law), international legal studies (LL.M, the Graduate Division of the New York University School of Law) and translation and linguistic studies (GCTS, the University of Florida’s Center for Latin American Studies). However, he is also fascinated by mythology, religion, physics, astronomy and mathematics, especially with matters related to quanta, cosmology and cosmogony. He can be contacted at guillermo.calvo.mahe@gmail.com and much of his writing is available through his blog at https://guillermocalvo.com/.

[1] Kanno-Youngs, Z., Pager, T., Rogers, K., & Sanger, D. E. (2026, January 8): “Trump lays out a vision of power restrained only by my own morality”. The New York Times. nytimes.com

Serious Reflections on Mr. Trumps Soliloquy Concerning Electoral Fraud

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Mr. Trump may be vile and corrupt but he is not always wrong or wrong about everything although he certainly tends to distort reality viciously, even when he has a scintilla of a point. 

For example, his allegations about electoral fraud are not without foundation.  There are clearly ineligible voters registered to vote in the United States and elsewhere, although how many is not clear.  And many of the suggestions in the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) Act have merit, indeed, many of the safeguards are staples of electoral systems all over the world although the United States federal system, coupled with the antipathy in the United States to a uniform form of national identity card, makes implementation problematic.

However, a much more serious related problem, one apparently being exploited by Israel and perhaps others (including diverse intelligence agencies all over the world), involves an insidious form of identity theft, i.e., where eligible voters who do not normally vote but whose votes are sometimes cast nonetheless, without their knowledge or consent, drastically impact electoral results.  There is purportedly evidence that companies with access to electoral data trace such non-voters and make related information available to diverse governments and entrepreneurial enterprises, facilitating electoral fraud.

The indicia is a large and anomalous increase in voting volume in favor of the victorious candidate, one that then wins by small margins as recently occurred all over Latin America and may have occurred in the 2020 United States elections.  Given the political disinterest of those whose “votes” are cast without their knowledge or authority, such tactic is almost impossible to prove or even detect other than on a macro level, and the law generally does not accept that kind of proof.  And when those charged with electoral integrity are involved, no investigations take place, complaints being dismissed on technical grounds. 

That seems to be the new electoral norm everywhere.  Of course, the foregoing observation is labelled, at best, as a “conspiracy theory” although it is clear that it is really more than just a working hypothesis.   When added to the reality that abuse of social media to circulate massive amounts of false information, scientifically timed for optimal electoral results is rampant, it seems obvious that “democracy” has become even more of a non sequitur than usual.
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© Guillermo Calvo Mahé; Manizales, 2026; all rights reserved.  Please feel free to share with appropriate attribution.  Image copyright New York Times.

Guillermo (“Bill”) Calvo Mahé (a sometime poet and aspiring empirical philosopher) is a writer, political commentator and academic currently residing in the Republic of Colombia (although he has primarily lived in the United States of America of which he is also a citizen). Until 2017 he chaired the political science, government and international relations programs at the Universidad Autónoma de Manizales. Previously, he chaired the social studies and foreign language departments at the Eastern Military Academy in Huntington, New York. He is currently the publisher of the Inannite Review available at Substack.com; an intermittent commentator on radio and television; and, an occasional contributor to diverse periodicals and publications. He has academic degrees in political science (BA, The Citadel, the Military College of South Carolina), law (JD, St. John’s University, School of Law), international legal studies (LL.M, the Graduate Division of the New York University School of Law) and translation and linguistic studies (GCTS, the University of Florida’s Center for Latin American Studies). However, he is also fascinated by mythology, religion, physics, astronomy and mathematics, especially with matters related to quanta, cosmology and cosmogony. He can be contacted at guillermo.calvo.mahe@gmail.com and much of his writing is available through his blog at https://guillermocalvo.com/.

New Warnings Fresh from the Echoes of Trojan Princess Cassandra’s Dystopic Visions, Israeli Edition

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On January 10, 2026, at 10:55 a.m., EDST, ToI Staff and Jacob Magid of the Times of Israel reported that “Israel had warned the United States that Iran devised a new plot to assassinate Trump”.[1]

Just how stupid does Israel think the majority of people in the United States are? 

Well, given the probable truth behind the assassination of JFK, the destruction of the Twin Towers, the “Six Day War, the Nakba, etc., very stupid indeed.  And the Israeli leadership has a point.  So much so that it is brazenly adding a new element to its hoped for total destruction of Iran.

First, Israeli leadership talked Donald J. Trump into going on an assassination spree in Iran, a frequent Mossad tactic but this time engaged in on an industrial scale using the United States as the weapon.  Then, Netanyahu terrified Mr. Trump (like Mr. Netanyahu, he’s not very brave unless heavily protected or in a bunker) by whispering into his ear that such actions might have consequences.  Horrors, tit for tat.  But, then again, speaking of tits, the United States and its tax payers have been providing Israel with all it wants for three quarters of a century.

Sooo, by claiming that if Mr. Trump is assassinated it will have been the Iranians’ who were  responsible, Israel’s leaders have apparently set in a motion a plan where United States retaliation will implement the Greater Israel project at little or no cost to the Israeli state (as occurred in Iraq and Libya and Syria, etc.).  Which in turn means that should that occur, it will probably have been Israel that orchestrated the assassination, whether or not it was actually Israelis who carried it out (think Twin Towers); especially with a cadre of United States politicians whose loyalty is to Israel ready to replace Mr. Trump, perhaps permanently, given Israeli success in electoral manipulation all over the world.

Something to bear in mind as Israel once again collectively cries wolf (think antisemitism and holocaust) while it sort of pretends to dress in (slaughtered) sheep’s clothing.

Apologies for all the parentheticals (for some reason, they just seemed appropriate).
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© Guillermo Calvo Mahé; Manizales, 2026; all rights reserved.  Please feel free to share with appropriate attribution.

Guillermo (“Bill”) Calvo Mahé (a sometime poet and aspiring empirical philosopher) is a writer, political commentator and academic currently residing in the Republic of Colombia (although he has primarily lived in the United States of America of which he is also a citizen). Until 2017 he chaired the political science, government and international relations programs at the Universidad Autónoma de Manizales. Previously, he chaired the social studies and foreign language departments at the Eastern Military Academy in Huntington, New York. He is currently the publisher of the Inannite Review available at Substack.com; an intermittent commentator on radio and television; and, an occasional contributor to diverse periodicals and publications. He has academic degrees in political science (BA, The Citadel, the Military College of South Carolina), law (JD, St. John’s University, School of Law), international legal studies (LL.M, the Graduate Division of the New York University School of Law) and translation and linguistic studies (GCTS, the University of Florida’s Center for Latin American Studies). However, he is also fascinated by mythology, religion, physics, astronomy and mathematics, especially with matters related to quanta, cosmology and cosmogony. He can be contacted at guillermo.calvo.mahe@gmail.com and much of his writing is available through his blog at https://guillermocalvo.com/.

[1] The article, “Israel reportedly warned US that Iran devised a new plot to assassinate Trump” can be accessed at https://www.timesofisrael.com/israel-reportedly-warned-us-that-iran-devised-a-new-plot-to-assassinate-trump/.

Of Fractured Constitutions and Cultural Realities

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I firmly believe that if any president of the United States has ever deserved to be impeached, it would be Donald J. Trump.  He has made high crimes and misdemeanors an art form, primarily those crimes declared to be against humanity at Nuremburg, and he has also rendered the Constitution of the United States a nonsensical decoration.  The latter has impacted the entire system of governance, especially the ill-named Department of Justice.  His claim that he is responsible to no authority other than his own sense of what is moral defines a “dictator”, not in the classical Roman sense, but in the sense of a Führer, perhaps reflective of his German ancestry.  Having said that however, the concept of impeachment has been rendered an abusive and incoherent political football, and not just by the Democratic Party’s two ludicrous impeachments of Mr. Trump during his first term of office but by the equally ludicrous impeachment of William Jefferson Clinton by the Republicans in the 1990s and even by the impeachment of Andrew Johnson following the Civil War.  It is a case of maniacal boys and girls somehow elected to the United States House of Representatives who have been crying wolf for so long that the wolves have taken over.  And if Mr. Trump deserves impeachment for his unconscionable and unconstitutional actions during his second term, what of the Congress that on, a bipartisan basis, has refused to assume its responsibilities, not only with respect to war powers, but with respect to real governmental oversight.  Today’s government oversight hearings are merely polarizing public spectacles of the bread and circus variety, without the bread.  And our judiciary, meant to assure that the foregoing would not occur is and since at least 2013 has been a politicized mess with no respect for laws.

On April 10 of this year, 2026, retired Judge Andrew Napolitano, formerly a conservative commentator on Fox News, published an interesting article[1].  Interesting not only because of its substance but because of its style, one reminiscent of Martin Luther’s ninety-five theses and of the method employed by Socrates millennia ago to enlighten his pupils.  It was entirely comprised of questions.  Questions worth reading and questions on which profound reflection is merited.  Questions, in a sense, somehow related to my introductory observations.  The realities reflected in my introductory paragraph and in Judge Napolitano’s article[2] make two things obvious: neither our democracy nor our constitution are functional.  Sacred, yes, just as “Holy Scripture” is sacred to many, but not to be taken seriously.  And they’re not taken seriously.  Neither Holy Scriptures nor our current Constitution, one rendered incoherent through sometimes idealistic but ill-conceived amendments[3].

So, what’s to be done? 

My suggestion, one I and others have made for over half a century, is one political parties of all stripes find anathema[4], the one thing they all agree cannot take place, a new constitutional convention.  They abhor the concept because they uniformly agree that the People assembled as the principal and primary constituent, assembled as “We the People”, cannot be trusted, regardless of platitudes such as “sovereignty resides in and emanates from the People”.  However, our Founding Fathers did provide a mechanism for such an eventuality, one they provided in the Constitution itself.  In relevant part, Article V of the United States Constitutions states “… on the Application of the Legislatures of two thirds of the several States, [Congress] shall call a Convention for proposing Amendments, which … shall be valid to all Intents and Purposes as Part of this Constitution when ratified by the Legislatures of three fourths of the several States, or by Conventions in three fourths thereof, as the one or the other Mode of Ratification may be proposed by the Congress….”. 

As of early 2026, the movement for a state sponsored constitutional convention, one technically known as an Article V convention, had gained significant momentum with the project having been adopted by legislatures in 20 states. To trigger the first-ever Article V convention in U.S. history, 34 states must pass “matching resolutions on the same topic”, 14 more need to do so.  The following are the most likely 14 states to join the project: Iowa (passed in one chamber previously); Wyoming (passed in one chamber previously); North Carolina (passed in one chamber previously); South Dakota (passed in one chamber previously); Virginia (passed in one chamber previously); New Hampshire (passed in one chamber previously); New Mexico (passed in one chamber previously); Kentucky (being actively targeted during 2026); Ohio (being actively targeted during 2026); Pennsylvania (being actively targeted during 2026); New Jersey (being actively targeted during 2026); Washington (being actively targeted during 2026); Illinois (being actively targeted during 2026); and, Minnesota (considered a swing state for the movement).

A real constitution, one binding and enforced and reflective of the popular will, one percolated from below rather than imposed from above or by corrupt elites would go a long way towards depolarizing our divided citizenry and making our government functional rather than dysfunctional[5]. A constitution crafted to make truth in the media a viable option and to make non-interference by foreign powers in United States politics a binding rule, one that prioritized government expenditures so that the “Common Welfare” came first and foreign intervention was banned (as George Washington once urged), one that depoliticized the judiciary.  One resolving the issue of whether or not the United States should remain true to its immigrant roots or discard them and which democratically resolved the issue of whether the United States should return to its federal premises or become a unitary state, perhaps a bottoms up unitary state with most power focused in county governments.  All of the foregoing would go a long way towards achieving and maintain the so called “American Dream”.

Of course, a constitution that does not reflect the popular political culture is useless as the Weimer Republic which gave rise to the Nazis made clear.  Our political culture also needs a great deal of work.  A return to empathy reflective of the so called Golden Rule and to mutual respect recognizing the value of differences of opinion, rather than their ridicule.

I wonder which of the two would be more difficult to attain: constitutional or cultural reform. 

And I wonder if we are not already past a point of cultural no return?
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© Guillermo Calvo Mahé; Manizales, 2026; all rights reserved.  Please feel free to share with appropriate attribution.

Guillermo (“Bill”) Calvo Mahé (a sometime poet and aspiring empirical philosopher) is a writer, political commentator and academic currently residing in the Republic of Colombia (although he has primarily lived in the United States of America of which he is also a citizen). Until 2017 he chaired the political science, government and international relations programs at the Universidad Autónoma de Manizales. Previously, he chaired the social studies and foreign language departments at the Eastern Military Academy in Huntington, New York. He is currently the publisher of the Inannite Review available at Substack.com; an intermittent commentator on radio and television; and, an occasional contributor to diverse periodicals and publications. He has academic degrees in political science (BA, The Citadel, the Military College of South Carolina), law (JD, St. John’s University, School of Law), international legal studies (LL.M, the Graduate Division of the New York University School of Law) and translation and linguistic studies (GCTS, the University of Florida’s Center for Latin American Studies). However, he is also fascinated by mythology, religion, physics, astronomy and mathematics, especially with matters related to quanta, cosmology and cosmogony. He can be contacted at guillermo.calvo.mahe@gmail.com and much of his writing is available through his blog at https://guillermocalvo.com/.

[1] Napolitano, Andrew P. (2026):  “Killing & Indifference”, Consortium News, Volume 31, Number 98 — Friday, April 10, 2026 available at https://consortiumnews.com/2026/04/10/killing-indifference/?eType=EmailBlastContent&eId=19e366d7-5937-4c7b-86ee-1a1624d04b5c.

[2] The main difference between Judge Napolitano’s perspective and mine is that he still believes the current United States Constitution is viable.  I do not.

[3] Calvo Mahé, Guillermo (2023):  “Motley Constitutionalism: a labyrinthine aphorism”; Medium, July 30, 2023 available at https://guillermo-calvo-mahe.medium.com/motley-constitutionalism-a-labyrinthine-aphorism-9270c689f12d.

[4] And that includes third parties like the Libertarian and Green parties and many others.

[5] The term “dysfunctional” is not synonymous with non-functional, it implies functionality but in pain.  “Non-functional might well be significantly better as the late Judge, Gideon J. Tucker noted in a 1866 decision when he wrote “No man’s life, liberty, or property are safe while the legislature is in session”, a quote later made famous by the late, great author and social commentator, Mark Twain and comedian Will Rogers.

On the Reality of Donald Trump’s Recent Animal-Human Hybrid Video

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There has been a great outcry recently by those who despise Mr. Trump, no matter what, but also by some among those who admire him without reserve, over the post that involved the Obamas with their faces superimposed on the bodies of chimpanzees.  The criticism had been hyperbolically focused on perceived racism.  I do not support Mr. Trump and have admittedly grown to despise him but I try to maintain a sense of objectivity without which discernment of truth is impossible (absent fortuitous coincidence).  So, while I was initially dumfounded and outraged; I watched the video to see for myself what I would be criticizing.  I doubt many others have done the same.  And I was surprised.  Rather than racist, I found the video idiotically juvenile.  It was by no means limited to the Obamas, although that has been the focus of the criticism, but involved numerous political figures both opposed to and supportive of Mr. Trump, all represented with animal bodies, and that included Mr. Trump himself. 

It was obvious to me that in the associational choice of animals Mr. Trump sought to insult his opponents and glamorize himself.  His was the body of a lion.  But my conclusion was that the video demonstrated not Mr. Trump’s racism but his ignorance concerning biology and evolution.  For example, chimpanzees are extremely intelligent and in their bonobo variant, the biological species closest to humans while male lions, such as the one selected by Mr. Trump to represent himself, are lazy and indolent, albeit strong and fierce, but dominated by the females of the species who do most of the work.

Thus, the video was childish and idiotic but instructive as well, and perhaps unintentionally, the portrayal may have been all too accurate. 

Perhaps someone pointed that out to Mr. Trump who has removed the video from his social platforms.
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© Guillermo Calvo Mahé; Manizales, 2026; all rights reserved.  Please feel free to share with appropriate attribution.

Guillermo (“Bill”) Calvo Mahé (a sometime poet and aspiring empirical philosopher) is a writer, political commentator and academic currently residing in the Republic of Colombia (although he has primarily lived in the United States of America of which he is also a citizen). Until 2017 he chaired the political science, government and international relations programs at the Universidad Autónoma de Manizales. Previously, he chaired the social studies and foreign language departments at the Eastern Military Academy in Huntington, New York. He is currently the publisher of the Inannite Review available at Substack.com; an intermittent commentator on radio and television; and, an occasional contributor to diverse periodicals and publications. He has academic degrees in political science (BA, The Citadel, the Military College of South Carolina), law (JD, St. John’s University, School of Law), international legal studies (LL.M, the Graduate Division of the New York University School of Law) and translation and linguistic studies (GCTS, the University of Florida’s Center for Latin American Studies). However, he is also fascinated by mythology, religion, physics, astronomy and mathematics, especially with matters related to quanta, cosmology and cosmogony. He can be contacted at guillermo.calvo.mahe@gmail.com and much of his writing is available through his blog at https://guillermocalvo.com/.

On the Organic Ancestry of MAGA and of Its Ironic Incoherence

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The “Make America Great Again” (MAGA) Trumpian political movement[1] within the United States Republican Party, is hardly original.  It is merely a reflection of the profound xenophobia that has characterized the United States since well before its founding; at least since descendants of English invaders[2] deemed new German immigrants during the colonial era unworthy of sharing the colonial society the English were in the process of founding.  But MAGA has a more direct historical ancestor: the mid-nineteenth century “American Party” (better known as the Know-Nothing Party).  The latter was a name it proudly applied to itself based on a pledge required of its members to preserve secrecy concerning party activities by answering all queries with the phrase “I know nothing”, a phrase ironically adopted by a comic character in a sitcom set in a German prisoner of war camp over a century later[3], rather than in praise of ignorance (although a pretty good case might be made for the latter).

The American Party was an outgrowth of secretive groups like the Order of the Star-Spangled Banner[4] (which somewhat explains its paranoiac tendencies) and became a major third party political movement during the 1850s (interestingly, a time as polarized as our own) rivaling not only the traditional parties at the time (the Democratic and Whig parties) but also the emerging abolitionist (and industrialist[5]) Republican Party.  It was ideologically characterized by nativist Protestant supremacism and anti-immigrant sentiment particularly targeting Irish and German immigrants and, like MAGA today, advocated for stricter naturalization laws (proposing to extend the residency requirement for citizenship from five to twenty-one years) and seeking to keep the foreign-born, even if they had attained United States citizenship, from voting or holding public office.  They did not address the “birthright” citizenship issue as the 14th amendment to the constitution on which it is based had yet to be adopted, but they would assuredly have agreed with MAGA on that issue as well.  The party gained significant power during the 1854 – 1855 electoral period, capturing several state governments and sending numerous representatives to Congress.  Former President Millard Fillmore was their 1856 candidate securing 21% of the popular vote but winning only Maryland.  However, the party quickly fragmented into northern and southern factions leading to its collapse by the time of the Civil War.

While similar to MAGA in ideology, the American Party was a bit more coherent than MAGA in its xenophobia given the control exerted over MAGA by Israel through its American Israeli Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC).  AIPAC finances the political campaigns of all MAGA affiliated members of Congress who are then required to place Israeli interests over those of the United States (which would have been anathema to the American Party); however, that subservience is not limited to MAGA or the GOP given that such phenomenon equally impacts the Democratic Party.  Indeed, using the “wag the dog” analogy, there are international analysts who view the United States as a mercantilist Israeli colony, regardless of which domestic political party attains political power, a hypothesis supported by the immense transfer of United States tax revenue directly to Israel for both domestic and military purposes.

So, not much new with MAGA, just a rehash of old prejudices but this time, ironically, in the service of a foreign, non-Protestant power. 

The foregoing brings to mind the Peter Allen song published in 1974, “Everything Old is New Again”:

When trumpets were mellow and every gal only had one fellow, no need to remember when because everything old is new again.  Dancing at church, Long Island jazzy parties; waiter bring us some more Bacardi.  We’ll order now what they ordered then because everything old is new again. 

Get out your white suit, your tap shoes and tails; let’s go backwards when forward fails and movie stars you thought were alone then are now framed beside your bed.  Don’t throw the past away, you might need it some rainy day; dreams can come true again when everything old is new again

Get out your white suit, your tap shoes and tails; put it on backwards when forward fails.  Better leave Greta Garbo alone, be a movie star on your own and don’t throw the past away; you might need it some other rainy day.  Dreams can come true again when everything old is new again.

When everything old is new again, I might fall in love with you again

Well, at least sort of new.  Perhaps, with an innovation or two. 

An anthem of sorts for MAGA.

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© Guillermo Calvo Mahé; Manizales, 2026; all rights reserved.  Please feel free to share with appropriate attribution.

Guillermo (“Bill”) Calvo Mahé (a sometime poet and aspiring empirical philosopher) is a writer, political commentator and academic currently residing in the Republic of Colombia (although he has primarily lived in the United States of America of which he is also a citizen). Until 2017 he chaired the political science, government and international relations programs at the Universidad Autónoma de Manizales. Previously, he chaired the social studies and foreign language departments at the Eastern Military Academy in Huntington, New York. He is currently the publisher of the Inannite Review available at Substack.com; an intermittent commentator on radio and television; and, an occasional contributor to diverse periodicals and publications. He has academic degrees in political science (BA, The Citadel, the Military College of South Carolina), law (JD, St. John’s University, School of Law), international legal studies (LL.M, the Graduate Division of the New York University School of Law) and translation and linguistic studies (GCTS, the University of Florida’s Center for Latin American Studies). However, he is also fascinated by mythology, religion, physics, astronomy and mathematics, especially with matters related to quanta, cosmology and cosmogony. He can be contacted at guillermo.calvo.mahe@gmail.com and much of his writing is available through his blog at https://guillermocalvo.com/.

[1] One wonders whether Donald John Trump (or, “The Donald” as he styles himself) has registered intellectual property rights to the “MAGA” name?  I wouldn’t be surprised; indeed, I’d be surprised if he hasn’t.

[2] They called themselves colonists but the indigenous population of the continent saw them somewhat differently, actually, saw them pretty much in the same way as the invaders saw all subsequent undocumented “immigrants”.

[3] Hogan’s Heroes.

[4] A nativist, anti-Catholic and anti-immigrant secret society founded in New York City in 1849 by Charles B. Allen.

[5] Indeed, despite its abolitionist veneer, the emerging Republican Party was largely a pro-industrial revolution, pro-capitalist political movement that sought to centralize the government in order to facilitate the consolidation of the North American continent and the imperialistic expansion of the United States.

“Heil” Rather than “Hail” to the Chief

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The United States finally has a Führer!

It’s been a long time coming.  At least since the administration of William Jefferson Clinton.  And at each stage it has become seemingly worse but the sad truth is that is has just become a more and more obvious reality.  Donald J. Trump is just a more blatant and more honest version of Joseph Robinette Biden. Then again, perhaps today’s United States Führer is really Benjamin Netanyahu (well, really Mileikowsky, but that’s another story), and he has probably been the Führer since before he even became prime minister of Israel.

The United States Constitution has been illusory since the Civil War, evolving from a confederate structure to today’s unitary state in all but name, and unitary in the dictatorial sense, where the semblance of separation of powers is only a sad delusion.  Today’s system of governance in the United States of North America (as we in South America prefer to call it), both domestically and internationally, has become one that emulates Mussolini’s Italy and Hitler’s Germany, a corporatist state in training with plenty of billionaires surfing happily in the current president’s wake.  I don’t state that as an insult but rather an acknowledgement that all power has become concentrated in the presidency, something that occurred historically in ancient Rome when the Republic morphed into the Empire.  The judiciary has become subsumed at the highest level and although numerous members of the federal judiciary at the District and Circuit levels remain loyal in their decisions to “they who appointed them” now, given the composition of the Supreme Court, that is at best a stalling tactic.

One of the most repulsive aspects of “fascism” (the sociopolitical and economic philosophy common to Nazis, Zionists and today’s United States rather than the meaningless pejorative aphorism used to describe political enemies), in addition to its proclivity for genocide, ethnic cleansing and the quest for lebensraum, is how it turns decent people, moral people, into willing accomplices.  Fascism is democratic, it wouldn’t work if it wasn’t.   Mussolini, Hitler, Netanyahu and Mr. Trump (as well as Messrs. Clinton, Bush, Obama and Biden) all enjoyed broad popular support from the electorates which, for whatever reasons (and the reasons were and are diverse), their members had been led to enthusiastically espouse.  Not that there wasn’t opposition to fascist governments then and now but thuggery by masked agents of the state, masked to assure the anonymity essential for impunity, took care of that in each case, and violently so.  Interestingly, fascism (as well as other related systems) relies heavily on a sense of outraged victimhood and purported moral and xenophobic ethnic superiority as essential unifying elements.  And the foregoing describes todays United States and its idol Israel, to a tee.

Ironically, most of the United States electorate is aware of the internal fascist problem (though they have no idea what fascism is) but they have been successfully polarized so that the principle of “divide and conquer” is effectively used to completely blunt such realization.  At the federal level, the United States political system is not democratic in any sense, it was designed to create the illusion of democracy but without democracy’s impediments to control by political and economic elites.  Moreover, a two party dictatorship was imposed through legislative favoritism so that at the federal level, it is virtually impossible to attain public office unless one is sponsored by either the ill-named Democratic Party or the equally ill-named Republican Party.  In reality, they are two sides of the same coin and the coin is owned by the American Israel Public Affairs Committee which not only funds approximately 90% of all federal elective officials but destroys any candidate who rejects its dominance, in each case, through massive expenditures that in an ethical system would be identified as “bribes”.  Those voters whose allegiance is pledged to the Democratic and Republican parties clearly see the fascist tendencies in the other party but are certain that their own party is pristinely patriotic and dedicated to the ideals pursuant to which the United States was purportedly founded, i.e., democracy, liberty, justice under law, etc., although few have any idea what such ideals mean.  Thus, the fascist cancer has successfully invaded and conquered the United States body politic, … now apparently terminally.

That fascist leaders (e.g., a Führer) behave in a manner that any normally aware person would recognize as insane apparently poses no problem.  Indeed, the insanity of the Führer’s conduct is an asset, at least in the beginning, as opponents, having no idea how to deal with it, initially acquiesce to numerous ludicrous demands, demands that all too often have horrific consequences.  Demands that become incrementally more ludicrous until all aspects of organized civil conduct are replaced by the Führer’s personal morality of the moment, something that Mr. Trump personally clearly and unequivocally specified when faced with challenges based on international, constitutional and ordinary legal impediments.  Had he a bit more historical acuity he probably would have quoted French King Luis XIV by adding “L’État, c’est moi”!

It is amazing to me, and very disturbing, that so many career military officers in the United States who I have known for most of my life and who I respect and admire, men who have taken an oath to “uphold and defend the Constitution of the United States”, now take umbrage at the observation by a retired senior military officer and current member of Congress that members of the United States armed forces “must not obey illegal orders”.  That was the crux of the law imposed by the United States and its allies on the entire world immediately following World War Two through the decisions of the Nuremburg tribunals, decisions against the leaders, civil as well as military, of the defeated Nazi regime.  Hypocritical decisions, that’s true.  The United States and its allies had engaged in conduct at least as evil as had the losers in that conflict and the decisions were based on purportedly prohibited ex post facto “legislation”.  But at any rate, those decisions have proven farcical, especially with respect to the Zionists who were so active as judges and prosecutors in such tribunals but whose descendants today claim that “international law does not apply to them”.   And by extension, it cannot apply to their chief enablers, primarily the United States, but also the United Kingdom, the Federal Republic of Germany, the Fifth French Republic.  Indeed, to any of the member states of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.

So we now live in the Hobbesian “State of Nature”, one essential for functional Führers where, as enunciated recently by a senior United States official, this time against Denmark, one of the United States own allies, that “only might makes right”.  And the chickens have come home to roost, as they tend to do.  The bullying of other countries is now not only all inclusive but it is now being applied to citizens and nationals of the United States by heavily armed, anonymous, poorly trained uniformed thugs, members of an evolving constitutionally proscribed virtual federal police force, and the states be damned.  After all, states rely on the Constitution first put into effect in 1791 for their authority, and that Constitution is now a zombie….

At best.
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© Guillermo Calvo Mahé; Manizales, 2026; all rights reserved.  Please feel free to share with appropriate attribution.

Guillermo (“Bill”) Calvo Mahé (a sometime poet and aspiring empirical philosopher) is a writer, political commentator and academic currently residing in the Republic of Colombia (although he has primarily lived in the United States of America of which he is also a citizen). Until 2017 he chaired the political science, government and international relations programs at the Universidad Autónoma de Manizales. Previously, he chaired the social studies and foreign language departments at the Eastern Military Academy in Huntington, New York. He is currently the publisher of the Inannite Review available at Substack.com; an intermittent commentator on radio and television; and, an occasional contributor to diverse periodicals and publications. He has academic degrees in political science (BA, The Citadel, the Military College of South Carolina), law (JD, St. John’s University, School of Law), international legal studies (LL.M, the Graduate Division of the New York University School of Law) and translation and linguistic studies (GCTS, the University of Florida’s Center for Latin American Studies). However, he is also fascinated by mythology, religion, physics, astronomy and mathematics, especially with matters related to quanta, cosmology and cosmogony. He can be contacted at guillermo.calvo.mahe@gmail.com and much of his writing is available through his blog at https://guillermocalvo.com/.