The Meaning Of Words

AMERICA'S GREAT PREVARICATOR, Rush Limbaugh,harms the country on his Excrement In Broadcasting network by duping the gullible, snake oil style, selling snake oil to snakes, the sort of reprobates who voted for Trump, and amazingly, probably still would. However, in several decades of spewing bile and gibberish, he unwittingly told the truth, once. What he said was: "words mean things". Indeed they do, or are supposed to. here wee wish to consider how our country might benefit from taking advantage of a few well placed words. Consider, for instance, our thoroughly corrupt political system. Corrupt in that ist for sale, every molecule of it. It is owned, entirely, by billionaires, because they can afford it. Every elected politician in America, in fact, is either a billionaire or is owned by a billionaire. Every piece of legislation which becomes law is carefully crafted only with the prior approval of our billionaire corporate masters, for the exclusive benefit of the billionaires themselves, to the detriment of everyone else. Minimum wage, the destruction of labor unions, and on, and on. This sad state of affairs could be revolutionarily, easily remedied with seven simple words: "the purchase of political advertising is prohibited". The limits would be on paid speech, not free speech. or consider this: the United States of ammunition is an ongoing shooting spree. Right? The NRA, in effect a billionaire, is intent on putting handguns in everyone's holster, everyone who is a certified "good guy". We are dared to do anything about it, at great personal peril. We could demonstrate our deep devotion to the second amendment by adding the words" while serving in a militia". They could be inserted between the existing second amendment words "arms" and "shall". A capital idea, it would work like a well oiled rifle barrel. Several Supreme Court justices, most notably John Paul Stevens and warren burger, have suggested it. Ah, the power of words, which mean things, and which, if used judiciously and in the right places, can transform society, and make it more like the sort of society in which we all want to live.