Tuesday, November 14, 2023

The Tragedy of Verminizing Public Discourse

 I don’t know, but I been told (by Steve Schwartz), that a recent trump tweet referred to “Radical Left Thugs” as “vermin.”

The trump tweet, which Steve showed us in his “The Warning” blog, specifies who, in trump’s opinion, those vermin are: communists, marxists, fascists and radical left thugs who will do “anything possible” . . . to destroy “America and the American Dream.”

Apparently donald trump was not aware that he was including some of his own supporters, the “fascists”, in his vermin list.

If donald does intend to destroy fascists, then he should notify the proud boys and the the oathkeepers and the three-percenters and all those other radical thugs who were standing by awaiting his call to action on January 6 2021. He should warn them of his intent to destroy them in his campaign to extinguish “the vermin.”

Rodents, cockroaches, termites, bedbugs and lice are vermin.

Persons whose bodies typically host vermin are also sometimes derogatorily called vermin: beggars, vagrants, homeless people, poor people, even. . . immigrants! May it never be! The pilgrims were immigrants!

But Democrats, liberals, socialists, communists, BLM activists, LGBTQ people, marxists, leftists and Jewish people are not vermin. 

The former president’s derogatory name-calling does not establish their identities. In this free nation, each person establishes their own identity. Furthermore, each group establishes their own identity.

The former president’s use of that word to defile his political opponents places him in the same leadership category as adolf hitler.

George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Dwight D. Eisenhower would not/did not use that word to describe their fellow-citizens, or even their enemies. As dignified American leaders, they would not stoop so low as to insult their opponents by calling them “vermin.”

Even Richard Nixon did not use that word in referring to his political opponents. Nixon certainly never called Hubert Humphrey or George McGovern or Sam Ervin or Woodward, Bernstein or Ben Bradlee . . . “vermin.”

Only adolf hitler stooped so law as to calling his opponents “vermin.”

Vermin!

Now donald trump calls his opponents vermin. If he keeps insulting and deriding them at this rate, the magamaniacs will begin stretching out their arms in the maga salute: “Heil Trump.”

Or, as the witch hailed  Macbeth in Shakespeare’s tragedy play, “Hail MacTrump who shall be King hereafter!”

That royal destiny could only be accomplished by the dastardly shedding of blood that Lady Macbeth later regretted when she cried “Out damned spot!” 

And Burn’em Constitution Rule of Law doth move against Washington and Lincoln’s name!

May it never be! . . . although, methinks. . . dark, foreboding clouds of American tragedy do loom on our horizon, not unlike those that Romeo feared when he declared:

“For my mind misgives some consequence yet hanging in the stars shall bitterly begin. . ”

with these trump’s rebels!

Glass half-Full

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