WORDS MATTER
For many years, I have
lived my life evangelizing the importance of 2 words...WORDS MATTER
I believe that what one
says or writes should be listened to and taken into account when the measure of
a person is taken
That rule applies to
everyone, even a president.
The corollary is WORDS
HAVE MEANING and the meanings are pretty much immutable. We don’t get to
rewrite the dictionary on a daily or hourly basis to suit our momentary
situation. English is a language that does change and evolve but it’s not a momentarily
situational language.
The English language has
been spoken and written and altered and changed throughout the centuries by
common usage, new technologies and discoveries and the merging with other
languages. One person alone does not get to change the meaning of words by fiat
or because of the way he is feeling or thinking early one morning.
WORDS MATTER and they
don’t disappear and change meaning because the tweeter or speaker has decided
that he really didn’t mean his words ‘that way’ or a spokesperson tells us that
he was just joking.
Trump has weaponized
words. He throws them out like exploding emotional bombs to his adoring,
foaming-at-mouth followers at his Nuremburg-like, neo- fascist pep rallies disguised as campaigning..
These very same words are
fired off as if they are heat-seeking missiles at immigrants, the legitimate
news media and others with whom he disagrees.
His words are like
stinger-launched attacks, hurling invectives, insults and violence at his
perceived enemies, those less fortunate and minorities. Then he and his
enablers...including those who still back him, attempt to justify or interpret
his words in an entirely different way to make them seem to be something
different, something more palatable, more acceptable.
The next day or next
minute, after this weaponized verbal crazy-making, Trump again repeats these
same invectives, totally oblivious that Words Matter or worse, realizing that
his hateful words do matter to his adoring mob.
His quiver of poisonously,
hate-tipped word arrows is constantly renewed by his greedy or ignorant
sycophants and when these words strike their intended targets with barbs of
ignorance, threats and bigotry, this ignorant, power-first tribe of Republican
office holders turn their backs and remain silent or state that they wouldn’t
have used those exact same arrows.
Words Matter.
There are Words in the
Constitution and there are Words on ballots this coming Tuesday. Make Your Words Count!
Zeny
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