The Backward Triplets
I assure you, this is not another boring attempt to make jeers at the current American commander in chief or at previous GOP candidates who gave it the good old college try; this is a clever attempt.
I admit, democrats and perpending republicans have had a knack for making excessively rudimentary and tedious remarks about some less than competent conservative leaders. While the same could be said for democratic representatives, I feel as though it is more pertinent to address the criticisms of recent figures who are dialed a little bit further to the right of the compass.
They're redundant. They're unrefined. They're tawdry. Yet for some reason, notions like that of George W. Bush's eyes being so close together that he could use a monocle, still find their target and have their way on our diaphragm. Sure, some are more highbrow (and I use that term loosely) such as his instantaneous comfort and conviction of Putin's righteousness and moral integrity - due to Vladimir's all too convenient sporting of his grandmother's crucifix upon their first convergence. A consolation I cannot imagine experiencing. Alas, I'd accuse myself of striking a far too vulnerable and putrid corpse if I reverted to mocking Mr. "I traded in Jack Daniel's for Jesus"; yet another solace I cannot fathom taking.
I digress. The all too ironic and salient title that I have chosen refers to another yokel, one Mr. Hitchens described as being sexually inferior to the Iron Lady, and being of mild use to a low-rate porn director. Lewd perhaps, but Hitchens wasn't known to exchange incisive humour for boring tact. Ms. Palin, for all her charming inefficacy and stupidity, is as you guessed it, not my cup of tea. Sorry, that joke was cheap and overdone. Nonetheless, her efforts to inculcate her views on public education seemed to be a vain one. Had she been successful, the outcome on society may indeed have resembled the results of lethal injection. An unabashed creationist, this former campaigning tea party representative encouraged and advocated the teaching of pseudo-science to children in place of evolutionary biology. If you thought Ken Hamm was alone in his crusade, you've yet to reckon with this female counterpart who subscribes to dino-human co-existence.
While I am not one who tries to stretch humour and coincidence beyond their breadth, I find the linguistic irony here to be palpable. Palin, when transliterated and translated literally means backward or reverse in Ancient Greek (whether or not this has been maintained in the modern tongue, I do not know). A simple, lucid, and poignant description of not only Sarah's perception of reality and understanding of natural history, but of the trajectory of her goals for American literacy and international image. I present you with this old diatribe because I fear that we are at risk of a recrudescence of exalted ignorance south of the border. Mr. Trump is contemplating pulling out of the Paris climate deal; something which former President Barack Obama reasonably endorsed.
Here is the ultimate irony - Pope Francis, the most recent aging virgin to represent the vicar of Christ on earth, purportedly besought Trump to reconsider his decision behind closed doors during his visit to the Vatican last week. This to me was the most important element and occurrence during the president's international tour, for, despite my personal convictions about the incompatibility of science and faith, Francis is doing his duty as a human to repudiate scientific ignorance trying to dilapidate the minds of youth. Once again, irony rears its impertinent head; for if Francis could extend his efforts to vindicate the maltreatment of children a bit further, he may find some of his colleagues facing trial and the much needed dissolution of his state's sovereignty and infallibility. I suppose one must recognize and cherish minor victories of this kind wherever they appear, and hope that justice will eventually prevail. Until then, the harboring of appalling pederasts in special sinecures and shielding of criminals from secular prosecution will unfortunately continue.
I come to a close. While Trump has not been indicted for child molestation, openly expressed a privileging of mythology over science (debatable, I know), or illogically exchanged whisky for Methodism, he is demonstrating a similar tendency - the championing of injustice, irrationality, and stultification. In its own way, a hallmark of depredation and trespassing sacred borders.
Yours truly, a polemic mammal
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