Tuesday, February 25, 2020

A most peculiar fallout





Almost as if outrage and anxiety,
goaded by virulent, unrelenting
cynicism and savagery, had ex-
tinguished all hope of resort to
reason in recovering the nation,
the call of Mr Sanders and a few
novices in Congress for "revolu-
tion" has seemed to precipitate
a most peculiar inference, that
extreme emotion is a substitute
for political feasibility. Yet,
for all the depredations of the
present government, its experi-
ence has only confirmed the op-
posite, at almost every turn. 





The damage that can be done in
the misuse of language is sel-
dom any match for the thrill of
taking one's turn with mocking
fact and reason. Now it is un-
derstood, that language is the
enemy against which every hyper-
heated "issue" is arrayed, for
which it must pay the price of
the extinction of definition.

Mr Sanders and his clique are
converts to what they oppose.
In every thrust of his disor-
derliness, he has turned the
word, justice, into the blunt-
est, crudest, least coherent
of all the epithets of politics,
rivaling greatness in villainy.
















Sandro Botticelli
Portrait of a young man
Pitti Palace
ca 1470






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