In elementary school, I had a nickname which I’m pretty sure was intended to be insulting, but I didn’t find too abrasive: Grammar Girl.
I kind of thought it was cool, actually. I pictured Grammar Girl as a superhero, flying around and fixing my classmates’ (and sometimes, to their delight, my teachers as well) spelling and grammar errors.
Now, it seems, Grammar Girl is needed once again- to fix the abounding mistakes made so far by the Trump administration. These are the people who are in charge of the entire country, and some of them don’t seem to know the difference between to and too.
And then we had the DeVos debacles:
(BTW, guys, great way to honor Black History Month. It's DuBois.)
And then there was a vicious attak on, well, the word attack.
This makes me wonder, seriously, what is going on?
Although this is by no means the most important or offensive action of the Trump administration (that would be the blatant disregard and affront to basic human rights), it is, in a word, baffling. Why can’t these people seem to use spellcheck? I have already used it so far in these 200 tiny words. Here’s my theory.
The vast majority of the Trump administration didn’t get to where they are now because of substance or experience (Bannon, DeVos, Tillerson, even Trump himself). They are in power because of fear-mongering, using inflammatory buzzwords, and, most of all, money. I would argue that although there is a chance Steve Bannon is an evil genius (emphasis on evil), none of these people are what we would call incredibly smart.
However, what the administration lacks in intelligence, they make up for in sheer force. They have been incredibly busy wreaking havoc on the country- i’s only been a little over a month, and already, things have been shaken up quite a bit (to put it lightly). So, it doesn’t surprise me that a considerable percentage of the documents they release to the public come out sounding more like a stream of angry and ill-informed Tweets written while sitting on the toilet bowl at 5 o’clock in the morning.
Looks like Grammar Girl’s cape is coming out of storage.
