Letter To "The Thinking Housewife" On Her Blog's Tacit Support For Donald And Melania Trump

Dear Laura,

To your credit, you have said disparaging things about Plutocracy's Prince Of Darkness, Donald Trump. 

But you also post laudatory articles submitted by your readers, who, often as not, praise Trump as if he were The Messiah Come Back or at least The End Time equivalent of John's "voice crying in the wilderness." (To review your writings pro and con, google "The Thinking Housewife, Trump.")

Here's what "the con" looks like when properly contextualized:

Trump's Wife Posing With Gun, Boots And Bare Ass... And Michelle's Bare Arms Were A Problem

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2016/05/trumps-wife-posing-with-gun-boots-and.html

After you've had a chance to peruse "Trump's Wife Posing With Gun, Boots And Bare Ass," I encourage you to consider whether -- in the context of your own moral code -- you have an obligation to decry this man  alongside every favorable "Reader Comment." 

You once communicated to Fred that a playful photograph of a female rock band's "pajama party" was morally out-of-bounds, yet you let this "man" and his wife - a mercenary provocateur of prurience -- run roughshod over your blog.

It is perhaps instructive to recall that a fundament of Christian moral theology posits "silence as consent." 

I suggest that every time you post a reader's favorable review of Trump without adding your own robust condemnation, you are skating on ice whose thickness must be measured in nano-meters. 

In much of my correspondence with conservative friends and acquaintances I repeat the following challenge: "Why don't you circulate the link I have enclosed? And if not, why not?"

Again...

If not, why not?

By my lights, contemporary "conservatism" can only survive by cloaking itself in darkness and dedicating itself -- "religiously" -- to the denial of demonstrable truths.

Is it not morally incumbent upon you that your readers -- indeed every American -- be made fully aware of the pornographic, pseudo-pornographic and neo-pornographic behavior of Trump and his third wife?

Ronald Reagan And American Conservatism's Normalization Of Divorce In American Politics

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2015/08/ronald-reagan-and-american.html

Gospel Of Mark: Why Doesn't Kim Davis Deny Marriage Licenses To The Previously Divorced?

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2015/09/gospel-of-mark-why-does-kim-davis-not.html

Quaker Official Refuses To Issue Gun License

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2015/09/quaker-official-refuses-to-issue-gun.html

I can even imagine your conjured defense that "it would be sinful to post Alan's link because its content would expose my readers to the near occasion of sin."

As I see it, Trump is a grave moral menace on multiple fronts and any straddling defense you might mount which continues to publish favorable reviews of the man without simultaneously publishing "the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth" is, to say the least, a dubious dodge.

If Trump were still a Democrat you would be all over him "like white on rice," "like flies on ____."

Not only would you delight in representing Democrat Trump as one of "the many souls roasting in Hell," you would portray him as having a very special relationship with The Lord Of The Flies, a man who clearly sold his soul to Satan and is now so trapped in Black-Hole-darkness that he could never find his way back to the light.

The Thinking Housewife: "We Can Be Pretty Sure That Many Good People Are Roasting In Hell"

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2015/03/the-thinking-housewife-we-can-be-pretty.html

However, now that The Donald is a "declared" "conservative, a "Christian" who "eats the cracker" and cites "Two Corinthians" -- not to mention his role as standard bearer for The Party of Family Values -- you do your best to minimize criticism while trumpeting the voice of readers who would have us believe that this ridiculous, cowardly misogynist has been sent by God Himself to save humanity's faithful remnant.

I feel obliged to put the following photograph at the very bottom of this page so your moral sensibilities are not outraged to the point where you refuse to read my letter.

Yet you would conceal from your readers what you yourself know to be Moral Monstrosity.

So, what do you think Laura?

Is it time to evangelize the faithful by revealing the truth?

Or will you remain in tacit alliance with The Prince of Darkness?

I know you like clear-cut moral choices.

Although I am a firm believer that God's creation regularly "presents" in shades of gray, Donald Trump and the prurient provocateur who is his wife constellate an incomparably manichaen scenario.

It is one or the other.

Choose.

Or, you may tacitly choose by not choosing: Silence is consent.

As always, I will publish, unedited, any reply you make.

I have as little to hide as America's First Tramp.

Pax tecum

Alan

PS Donald Trump became a political reality because American "conservatives" -- operating as Armageddon Anarchists-- conjured him with the uncompromising inviolability of their "too pure principles."

"The terrible thing about our time is precisely the ease with which theories can be put into practice.  The more perfect, the more idealistic the theories, the more dreadful is their realization.  We are at last beginning to rediscover what perhaps men knew better in very ancient times, in primitive times before utopias were thought of: that liberty is bound up with imperfection, and that limitations, imperfections, errors are not only unavoidable but also salutary. The best is not the ideal.  Where what is theoretically best is imposed on everyone as the norm, then there is no longer any room even to be good.  The best, imposed as a norm, becomes evil.”  

"Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander,” by Trappist monk, Father Thomas Merton

More Merton Quotes

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2012/04/merton-best-imposed-as-norm-becomes.html

Compendium Of Best Pax Posts On "Too Pure Principles" And The Collapse Of Conservatism

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2015/02/compendium-of-best-pax-posts-on-too.html

"Republicans For Revolution," A Study In Anarchic Apocalypticism

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2013/10/republicans-for-revolution-study-in.html