Yet another mislaid "only"

Democratic National Committee Chairwoman 

Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.) said if 

it was her decision, she would scrap open 

primaries and only allow voters registered 

as Democrats to participate in primaries.

"I believe that the party's nominee should 

be chosen - this is Debbie Wasserman 

Schultz's opinion — that the party's nomin-

ee should be chosen by members of the par-

ty," the Florida Democrat said during an 

interview with "MSNBC Live" on Monday.

As reported in The Washington Examiner

and the online publication, The Hill.

Isn't it just gruesome, sometimes,

to expose people in trade of serv-

ing curiosity, for the disadvan-

tages they exhibit? Here, like so

many, a dutiful verbiage provider

lobs an "only" into a sentence, so

indifferent to its placement that

you'd think the word could modify

syntax by instinct. Maybe it does.

In the exclusive club the Floridi-

an services for friends and pat-

rons in the Party's hierarchy, "on-

ly" would rate naturally as a modi-

fier of such prolific utterance, as

to distribute itself promiscuously

throughout her proclamations. Such

trade, in our discretion, we usual-

ly offer ascent by a service stair.

Unitary, exclusionary, protective

to a fault, "only" calls upon the

rarest employment in democracies,

and at the most superfluous place.

Not at the starting line, not in

the stretch, not until the roses.

Isn't it intriguing, for example,

that we have the presence of mind

to condemn demands for barriers a-

gainst all of any belief, yet in-

terpose a blackball to our own?

Everything wrong with the patron

is magnified by the servant. All

of "only" is genuinely a tragic

utterance, on a servant's lips.

It is not in the nature of servi-

tude to succumb to servility. It

takes a whole lot of molestation

in the exercise of exclusivity.

I'd like to be amiable about this,

but that Party poses as a bulwark

against debauch this year. I don't

know that posing is remotely good

enough; but the question doesn't

arise. They haven't mastered it.

Serenely they do not notice, any-

more, an elementary rule, even of

grammar. In Indiana, Senator San-

ders claimed a margin of 40 points

among voters under 30, and of more

than 30 of those under the age of 

45. The "only" this Party wants to

represent inscribes the very signa-

ture of molestation, long indulged,

of indentured loyalists it exploits.

Isn't it gruesome, sometimes, to

expose people in trade, for the 

disadvantages they exhibit?

i   Xavier Serrano
ii  Tim Boot