Musings of the Great American Storyteller—My Commentaries on Res Publica

Heel, Merriam-Webster, and Twitter

President Trump released a tweet Saturday in which he misspelled the word “heal.”

As always, President Trump grasps the powerful consciousness of any action he takes.

Certainly, the president of the Unites States can have someone proofread his tweets.  However, the fact that he misspells words in his tweets (this isn’t the first time) allows the powerful influence of humanity to saturate his twitter message.

There’s a powerful psychology happening when a word is misspelled on a tweet, especially one that is the focus of his message.

When one sees the tweet, they are left with a conviction that the President himself did, in fact, send the tweet, not some White House staffer, and gives the tweet message much more consequence and weight to his supporters and potential backers than if it had been spelled perfect.

To then have his enemies attack him for his imperfection brings him to the level of humanity that people can relate to.

As the great American Storyteller, I appreciate this humanity.  It is the central component I seek to convey in every word I inscribe and every story I tell.

Only a quality leader would take such a risk—to expose his vulnerability, the better to touch and connect at the emotional level of his constituency.

A higher quality leader—like Trump—is able to grasp the psychological components at play.

Jerry Lewis—the Ageless Twelve-Year-Old

When I learned that Jerry Lewis died, I was left sad and hurt.

It’s a sad day for comedy, and for humanity.

No matter what you thought of him, Jerry Lewis was a giant of a man, in both talent and compassion.

Born Joseph Levitch, in Newark, New Jersey, by his twenties he’d already become a Hollywood star, partnering with Dean Martin to produce some of the best slapstick comedy in history.

After their partnership ended, Lewis went on to have a successful solo career, writing, directing, and starring in numerous box office hits, including The Nutty Professor.

However, it was in his philanthropic undertakings—highlighted by his stint as national chairman of and spokesman for the Muscular Dystrophy Association, from 1952 to 2011—where he shined brightest.  Over the course of sixty years, he raised over $2.6 billion in donations for the cause and arguably saved, and/or extended the lives of many children, who otherwise would have suffered and died without hope.

The world is darker with Jerry Lewis gone, and nowhere near as funny.

And I—the American Storyteller—am left searching for a long-ago laughter to make me feel the emotions of a child.

 

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Amid the Passive Acquiescence of All: The Path Toward Civil War

War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling, which thinks that nothing is worth war, is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing that is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made free and kept so by the exertions of better men than him. (sic)

—John Stewart Mill

I recognize the noble sacrifice of the Minutemen, the modern patriots who have upheld the sacred truths of the Declaration of Independence without benefit of recognition or gratitude. It is because of our fellow citizens that I write these words with faith and hope. They are the Minutemen who protect the United States.

Our great struggle today is not against a ruthless king, nor against a kingdom on foreign soil. Our great war is against an oppressive bureaucracy that has stifled economic growth, destroyed the basic idea of patriotism, failed to provide for the common defense, failed to establish domestic tranquility, and corrupted the self-evident truths of a Free People. A de facto government has seized power, bringing much ruin to America’s value of life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness.

If the emancipation of a people is enough to bring about civil war in 1861, then it must be enough to justify war today. Does one group of people deserve emancipation and another not?

If freedom is enough reason to declare a war of independence in 1776, then how can we fail to answer the call for war today and forever lose the occasion to reclaim our stolen freedoms?

Is the citizen in 1776 more important than today’s citizen? When is the moment of revolution?

When does corruption become so intolerable that death’s coldness is a far better choice?

The moment of declaration—the momentous plea for revolution—calls to this generation.

We cannot sit idly by and watch the destruction of our most delicate freedoms. To go along with such unforgivable acts is wrong. Let the words of Tacitus remind us of the dangers of apathy.

A shocking crime was committed on the unscrupulous initiative of a few individuals, with the blessing of more, and amid the passive acquiescence of all.

We—The Patriots of Liberty—charge this government on the below listed offences:

Laboring to remove personal responsibility

Failing to control the large-scale growth of government

Devastating traditional American values and individual liberty

Devaluing the money system of the people of the United States

Degrading the office of the Presidency of the United States

Creating governmental policy to deny citizens the right to keep and bear arms

Over taxation of the citizenry

Murdering the weakest of its people

Accomplishing the emancipation of an enslaved people through the enslavement of another people

Using skin color to divide our nation

Promoting class and cultural warfare among its people

Let us not be fearful, but stand together as one and declare our liberty.

I, as a citizen soldier, stand ready to defend my country against any force threatening its independence.

We, as a people, must pledge our futures and our lives to each other.

Let us be vigilant to safeguard our country against those who would prey upon the most innocent of our citizens in the name of big government and power.

Let us be brave and resist the yoke of oppression. Let us not be so desperate to preserve our security that we lose our freedom.

Publius

 

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