Ahmad Meidari
Robert Reich’s recent Guardian essay, titled “Donald Trump poses a threat to civilization,” raises an alarm that deserves to be heard well beyond the borders of the United States. His argument is not narrowly partisan; it is civilizational. At its core lies a question confronting all societies today: whether power will continue to abandon moral restraint, or whether humanity can still arrest the slide toward "de-civilization.”
On this point, I find myself in deep agreement with Mr. Reich.
In our ethical and religious tradition, defending the oppressed against the oppressor is not a slogan but a duty. An old maxim, familiar to many Iranians, captures this plainly: Be a pillar of support for the downtrodden. Civilizations are not judged by the reach of their power, but by how that power is exercised.
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