Caesar Non Supra Grammaticos

"The Emperor is not above the grammarians", says the Latin proverb. Long before the illiterate moron Donald Trump's illiteracy splashed the screens, people knew the importance of speech in political office.

One of the first Trumpian grammatical pearl that I remember was when he tweeted about something which he described as "unpresidented", obviously an error since he meant "unprecedented". Now that is not a mere spelling error, in which case his finger would have slipped on the keyboard nor is it an automatic spell-check error because the word "unpresidented" does not exist. The error is engrained in his uneducated, unlettered, ignorant mind: He always thought that when people spoke the word "unprecedented", his brain flashed "unpresidented". In other words, the president of the United States, as the English usedto say, does not know his letters. He doesn't understand the basics of the language.

Maybe he was obsessed with becoming president and only hears what his moronic mind wants him to hear. 

Many Americans are embarassed by having an ignoramus for president. Bravado, machismo, and deceptively amplified big balls, may serve well in one of these assembly chain stupid Hollywood movies that makes heroes out of criminals and elevates violence to the level of a religion - no wonder the daily mass shootings in the US - but not for an official in charge of millions of people.

It may very well be that Trump doesn't really understand what other leaders are telling him. He doesn't even know his own language, how can he understand foreign leaders who often speak English in accented syllables or through an interpreter. That is why, as seems to be the case with his meeting in Alaska with his fellow criminal buddy Vladimr Putin, Trump comes out of these meetings with propositions and statements that do not reflect the reality. Maybe he's not that stupid, maybe it's his defective language skills.

"Caesar non supra grammaticos" means that going forward, after history defecates the Trump disaster into the toilet where it belongs, candidates for public office should be made to take a test. Having a college degree from the many medicore institutions of higher learning that the US harbors is not a sufficient marker of an official's fluency in their own language or their capability at making themselves understood or understand others.

The test would be like a giant geopolitical SAT test covering language, mathematical logic, history, geography and the like. Candidates who put down money to run should immediately take the test before they are allowed to run. Unfortunately, a majority of dumb Americans continue to think that wealth and money are the only criteria for successful candidacies to public office. Billionaires are not necessarily smart, they could be crooks who cheat and steal which does, admittedly, require a certain type of intelligence. But this sort of intelligence reflects the "ugly" component of the "dumb and ugly" pair of qualifiers by which Americans are perceived around the world. 

We see what happens when both "ugly" and "dumb" come together so well in such criminal (ugly) morons (dumb) as Donald Trump. I still prefer "dumb and nice" or "smart and ugly" to the textbook example of dumb and ugly that Trump is.

Finally, it is taken for granted in the US that the more money a candidate raises and spends in a campaign somehow increases his/her chances at succeeding. What this implies is that Americans in general are so dumb that throwing a silly campaign advertisement in the media and bombarding Americans with it will somehow change their minds. Really? Do you decide who to vote for based on a commercial? Are you so stupid to wait for two competing commercials of two rival candidates to make up your mind. Really? Have you no principles? Have you no idea beyond a commercial about the candidates? Don't you examine their history and background, their writings (if any) or interviews, their statements and past achievements, or their criminality and corruption? 

When the Supreme Court decided in 2010 to allow the free flow of money into campaigns (Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission), by which the Court found that laws should not restrict the political spending of corporations and unions, it granted immeasurable power to wealthy individuals and corporations. On the surface, it seems like a bad decision since the average individual could not possibly compete with large powerful groups, corporations, lobbies and the like. But again, this implies that Americans are so politically dumb that their voting pattern are dictated by advertisements and commercials, which in turn reflect how much money the candidates spend.

If this is true, then American democracy sucks. It is not the informed, enlightened will of the people that decide, but a brainwashed, misinformed and disinformed herd of morons that elect someone to public office.

It may be that the ultimate moron Trump's ascent into politics was driven by the money he spent on his campaigns, which means that the 2010 Supreme Court decision to allow the unfettered "sale" of political office to the wealthier of candidates brought us the fantastic Emperor who doesn't speak, read and write with precision - hence who doesn't think. You see, the entire edifice of human evolution rested upon language. Language gave us intelligence. Those with poor language are dumb. Hence, Donald Trump.