Time to Get our Dictionaries Out
Published in Marietta (GA) Daily Journal, 6/17/18
Let’s
avoid the word treasonous right now, but subversive is not at all too
strong. President Trump’s detractors are
engaging in subversion.
Let’s
also keep things simple. To learn what a
word means, rush to its verb form. To
subvert means “to intentionally weaken, overthrow, or destroy as in government”
(The New International Webster’s Standard Dictionary, 2006).
Leftists
of all stripes are openly saying we should bring down our current
president. Comedian Bill Maher, who illustrates
that comedy is serious business, recently opined that if it takes economic
disaster to bring down Donald Trump, then let it happen. MSNBC anchor Nicole Wallace, a former G.W.
Bush staffer, called the president a liar while he was abroad seeking the
de-nuclearization of the Korean peninsula.
She equated him with Kim Jong-un.
Obviously
Maher has no problem paying monthly bills, and Wallace has no grip on world
history or geo-politics. They are not
alone. The heightened anti-Trump verbal
outbursts of countless entertainment figures and media stars have reached the
level of subversion as well.
Words
don’t just have meanings. They also have
nuances and shades of meaning. At what
point do words become subversive? At
what point is the 1st Amendment being stretched too far? If treason is betrayal or a breach of faith
involving one’s country, Wallace came close when she characterized the nation’s
leader as a murderer. Judases and
Matthew Arnolds we will always have with us.
All
presidents have received their fair share of vilification, but some have
received more than their share.
President Obama brought us the excessive Dodd-Frank banking reforms, Obamacare, and a new and radically different
definition of marriage, yet he was never so personally, so angrily, or so
incessantly vilified by Republicans as President Trump is by Democrats and the
liberal media.
Democrats and moderate Republicans are
disguising their anger against Trump.
They are justifying their invective with “a concern for the future of
the nation,” “our democracy is at stake,” and “we can’t be governed by an
unstable man.” The 2016 losers are still
so embarrassed they are coloring the Trump-Clinton contest as a battle between
the lower half and upper half of the IQ scale.
Those 63 million Trump voters were “barbarians at the gate.”
I’m
going to grant the Trump haters that last sentence. I love a good figure of speech, and don’t
mind being called a barbarian since it puts me in the company of Joan of Arc,
William Wallace, and Barry Goldwater. I
can hear Goldwater saying, “Barbarianism in the defense of liberty is no vice,
and timidity in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.”
A
barbarian is an uncivilized, uncultured person, and that’s just how the
progressives and their sycophant press still view those 63 million working
folks.
Justice
is what the 63 million forsaken, hardworking barbarians sought. Tired of happy talk and fuzzy, futile promises,
they tried a new path and a new leader.
Seems like they’re mighty happy with him so far. Ask South Carolina Congressman Mark Sanford. He trashed Trump and lost his first election
ever this past week to a lady state representative who declared, “We are the
party of Trump.” Ponder the effect
Sanford’s loss will have, or had better have, on other Republican candidates.
Trump’s
victory was no indicator of anybody’s IQ.
It was a revolt of those with more common sense against those who have
less. It was classic class warfare: the
elites vs. the regulars.
Despite
the unbridled subversion of Trump’s opponents, Trump won fair and square. To use his own words, he “did a big number”
on Dodd-Frank and Obamacare. But his
adversaries should do what is historic and very American: accept the results of
an election and work hard to remove him from office the American way, not the
way of chaotic, unstable states.
Can
anyone deny that Trump, a 70-year-old, outworked 18 younger candidates? His billions apparently haven’t diminished
his work ethic.
If
liberals depose Trump or if they don’t, their next goal will be to abolish the Electoral
College. Despite losing the popular
vote, Trump won the electoral vote.
That’s how we elect presidents.
We help little people (in this case little states), a practice liberals
claim they believe in. Without the Electoral
College, the populous eastern seaboard and California would pick our
presidents. Without it, we are a pure
democracy, one of the most chaotic forms of government. With it, we are a republic which is what our
ingenious founders intended.
In
addition to a dictionary, maybe we also need a tenth grade civics book.
Roger Hines
6/13/18
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