An entire society in decline

American society, which until a few years ago was held up to us as a model to follow and emulate by the other nations of the world due to its supposed respect for institutions, democracy, human rights, and ethical and moral values and principles, has today entered a dizzying spiral of total decadence and moral decomposition.

How can we promote, emulate, and accept as a reference and as a paradigm a society that encourages anti-values and double standards, promotes social division, racial and gender discrimination, and demands that other nations respect human rights and comply with what it does not comply with? That nation wants to prohibit other countries from applying their immigration laws, but it can use its own, as is the case of the Dominican Republic.

While that country unjustly includes Cuba on the list of terrorist nations, promotes the sale of arms to different countries, and threatens to invade others, promoting coups d’état, such as the one it perpetrated against the legitimate, constitutional, and democratic government of President Juan Bosch on September 25, 1963, and against other legitimate governments.

How is that society capable of electing as president of the republic a person who had been convicted on several charges but who had already had those charges dismissed, acquiring the status of honorable, a person who is capable of disregarding the democratic institutions and the very constitution of his country; who persecutes, condemns, blocks, and maintains an insulting and threatening attitude towards small countries?

While talking about peace, it is one of the principal shareholders in the arms industry, promoting the sale of armaments and war equipment.

At the moment, President Donald Trump is threatening to take over the Panama Canal, which the United States occupied for a period of one hundred years and, under the Torrijos-Carter Treaty, was returned to Panama; he is trying to turn Canada into the 51st state of the United States; he wants to take over by force the island of Greenland, the largest in the world, rich in minerals and oil; also, that the Gulf of Mexico, rich in oil fields, should become part of the United States, as the Gulf of America.

All this is part of an imperialist agenda corresponding to the 19th century, which cannot be allowed.

With this arrogant style of governing, President Trump is helping to accelerate the decline of this great nation because instead of allies, he will achieve more political and economic adversaries.

He has to understand that diplomacy must be a two-way street. A conflict of interests between nations must be resolved through negotiation between the affected parties.

This is the principle of reciprocity. No country, regardless of its economic and political power, should try to dominate or impose its hegemony on smaller countries.

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By Alfredo Cruz Polanco