When I was younger, listening an orator talk in public was an authentic exercise of the use and of my knowledge of the language. Back then, politicians, union representatives, news casters etc, were expected to use ,not only an eloquent speech, but use also a high level vocabulary.
The orator was prepared, had practiced his speeches, would take a moment to think, repeat a question before answering, would be polite and wait until there was something useful to say. You would also expect that they would use good and elegant metaphors.
Politicians were articulate and usually spoke using a variety of adjectives when describing what they were planing to accomplish.
Sadly, nowadays we have lost the power of the language. People do not expect the candidate to the presidency to have an elegant use of the language. We hear them behave like bullies and there is no outrage, we see them talk about retribution to their opponents and dismiss their lack of respect to the authorities, to the institutions, to the processes that are in place; because we have become so use to not only to a lack of proper language use, but also a lack of respect to even the most basic respect, where we do not put down our opponents in order to win approval.
Is is very sad to see how many followers respond to this type of oratory, how many people are liberated by it and feel the right to simply behave without manners, without care, without respect.
We believe that only mirrors are the correct people. We look for the behavior we portray and for many generations it was cultivating the love for the honorable, until someone came alone to let the hate be ok, and the outsmarting the rules of a system as a virtue rather as a punishable and disapprove behavior.
So listening the use of the word “great” and “ huge” over and over becomes suddenly the best way to describe any accomplishment by the candidate to a presidency.
We have reduce our expectations so much that we don’t even think a debate about important issues was necessary to prove one candidate is better than another. They can lie over and over and nobody is outraged or surprised, the exaggeration of their accomplishments verge into delusions and people applaud this type of oratory.
Certainly the world is upside down for me, or I have become old and wish to go back to the old times.
