America still suffers from cult of presidential reverence

My favorite grammar school month was February. It gave us 2 holidays 10 days apart to honor first and 16th presidents Washington and Lincoln.

Of course, both holidays were more than meaningless as far as understanding American history. They hindered learning the harsh dysfunction of much our story by essentially venerating all the white men who served as president as being special from their exalted status as president.

The whitewashed history of American presidential malevolence didn’t teach us about Washington’s slaveholding, Andrew Johnson’s virulent racism that helped end Reconstruction and eventual re-enslavement of Southern Blacks, to name just a few critical omissions.

Enshrining presidents on currency, public buildings is bad enough. But defiling a South Dakota mountain by blasting away its natural beauty to create likenesses of 2 slaveholders and a virulent warmonger just to entice tourists is grotesque.

Hollywood spent $5 million in the 40’s to make a fortune venerating the aforementioned Johnson and virulent 20th century racist Woodrow Wilson. Entertainment yes; history no.

It’s no wonder we can’t cut cruel, criminal, amoral ordinary humans down to size just because their sociopathy fueled their ascension to the presidency.

We blew our chance 1974 when we allowed Richard Nixon to escape impeachment by resigning; then issued him a full pardon for crimes related to his efforts to fix his 1972 re-election?

Sound familiar?

Two hundred thirty-two years after Washington took the first presidential oath finds America still grappling with the cult of presidential reverence. After a defective human being incites an insurrection, getting 5 people killed in a treasonous effort to remain president, his party, along with nearly half the electorate want to move on without a whiff of accountability.

America must end its peculiar cult of presidential personality which prevents their impeachment, running again for the presidency; indeed being arrested, indicted and prosecuted for crimes we unwittingly encourage them to commit.