One of the cardinal virtues of humankind is to embrace moderation as the key to good living, health and prosperity and the capacity of tolerance toward others. This is an injunction promoted by wise minds vastly predating modernity; the Golden Mean the ideal virtue of balance dates back millennia to the early Greek philosophers who recognized the vital essence of the middle way as a way to elevate our better natures, to avoid conflict, to make us more civil human beings.

Despite the endlessly proven veracity of the promise behind moderation we tend toward veering from one extreme to another. A nation that chose to select and elect the man whose brilliant oratory convinced Americans that an intellectual bi-racial man of sobriety and enduring patience would be the means by which their great country could re-invigorate and re-event itself both at home and abroad, that expression in tolerant reaction against intolerant brutality was a failure.

The chosen alternative to the administration of Barack Obama which selected the path of alienating rather than uniting the nation's two ideological political parties for the betterment of its society and its failure to recognize and address the way forward in aiding other nations in an allied move to reclaim the world order from violently lethal waves of terrorism that one of the world's most popular and perniciously irredentist religions promoted, for fear of offending popular sensibilities represented yet another miserable dereliction of global obligation.

The broadly self-selected solution to the ills of a polarized nation and a world beset by violence has been to bring to the highest office of the world's executive order a boastful, ignorant bigot, directly opposing in the raw phrases of offensive incivility the advice of moderation. His 'solutions' to all that ails the world and his nation through the superb rationality of a man ill-versed in governance and world affairs whose claim to fame has been the ability to gain wealth through questionable transactions, in the process behaving as an immoral predator of women has sent a shudder of incredulity and fear throughout the world.