12 June 2021
I don’t hide the fact that I am a reformed terrorist (Strategic Air Command, ca. 1980), so it is hardly hypocritical of me to follow the lead of leftists and paint people with broad brushes. (But in my case, for the sake of fun-filled rhetoric, of course!)
My brother and I both indentured ourselves to the War (“Defense”) Department during the same time that the F’eral Government (on behalf of “Our Democracy”) was violently suppressing cannabis and free enterprise. Therefore, as GIs, we were fighting to have peaceful potheads and merchants beaten up and thrown into cages. You may dispute that as stupid, provocative, and faulty reasoning (and so would I), but I merely follow the same path I’ve heard since childhood.
Robert E. Lee fought for the Commonwealth of Virginia at a time when Virginia violently protected the legal institution of slavery, therefore Lee fought for slavery. In fact, it was Lee, the Abolitionist who wrote that “[S]lavery as an institution is a moral and political evil,” who surrendered to Grant, the last legal slave owner in Richmond, who only freed his slaves when the ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment finally forced his hand.
Putting relevance aside, I wonder today:
Is an affable goof who confidently misspells “potatoe” really worse than a superficial fraud who can’t decide which pronunciation of her given name (“Cam a luh” or “Comma law” or “kuh Maula”) has the greatest ethnic heft? And were they both put into their lofty positions to make doddering ex-Vice Presidents seem not so bad after all?