A Word To Rand Paul

Regardless of my personal opinion of you, and it is not good, your recent pariticpation in a political advertisement is, morally, a former of bullying:  in my opinion.


In that political advertisement, your attack upon Docotr Fauci is a transparent attempt to curry favor with the Innkeeper's followers; those who would gladly replace the plural democracy of our inclusive repucblic (at least in its ideal form) with an autocratic dictatorship of a corporate CEO who subscribes to the worst possible business model of that distorts capitalism into it most amoral form.  But, beyond that, your attack is unfair because, like your leader the Innkeeper, you attempt to disadvantage the subject of your bullying by altering the terrain of a level playing field.


Docotr Fauci is a civil servant who neither seeks, nor possesses, the attention of the electorate.  Therefore, he does not participate in campaign posturing; therefore he lacks the venue and opportunity to answer your remarks.  Unfortunately, as you and your leader, the Innkeeper both know, the innuendo and implications of even unrealistically wild remarks often gain credibility when unanswered.  This negative aspect of human nature has often been exploited by that evil triumverate---Lenin, Mussolini, and Hitler (the failed lawyer, the newpaper editor, and the housepainter)---whose spiritual or metaphorical bastard us your leader the Innkeeper.  By picking on a civil servant, with whom you happen to disagree, in a venue which affords that civil servant no opportunity to respond or answer, you engage in bullying; and also give evidentail demonstration of the modus opperandi that you, the candidate in whose advertisement you have participated, and the Innkeeper (as weill as his deluded followers), will bring to the offices you hold or seek.  Like all petty dictators, you fear dissent; thus, you speak against it primarily in those venues from which it is excluded.  


I am a descendent, not by blood but by adoption, of a New England family some of whose members ardently supported the American Revolution and the ideal of a demoncratic republic which it pursued.  In my opinion, Mr. Rand (I am loathe to use a title I do not believe that you deserve), you shame my ancestors, you shame their sacrifice, and you shame that vision of the alabaster city (which a great American Poet enversified for us), whose ideals, though not yet fully realized, are closer to our reach than they have been in the past.


Starward



Author's Notes/Comments: 

The last paragraph alludes to and quotes the poem, "Pikes Peak," by K.L. Bates.  This poem became our American hymb, "American the Beautiful."  This song, derived from poetry and set to a melody written by a minister of the Scottish Church, deserves to be our national anthem far more to than the present selection, an example of bad poetry set to music that, they tell me, was written for use by a club of drunkards.

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