I think the word “must” should be banned. It started with Clinton and he used it quite excessively to state that this or that directive MUST be worked on, strived for, placed above A, B, and C in our hierarchy of wants and it is YOUR JOB to drop what you are doing and make....Palestinian peace (for example) your first directive. >>YOU<< don’t mean s**t, >>OUR<< priorites must be to ....provide healthcare for children. You and your family, hey, those are sacrifical items for the greater good; and only *I* have the wisdom to 1: Imagine or discern, 2: state, 3: propose 4: fight against the dirty Republicans for.
Now it is used in a shotgun fashion to invoke the image of the liberal Democrat party the only ones who can take on the task of “healthcare for all”, or “a good education for all children”.
Obama likes to introduce his “must” directives with “no longer can we...” or “For too long we have ....” and couch the “your crappy lives don’t matter compared to my grand ideals” rap with “That’s not the kind of people we are”. Skilled oratory, flaming bulls**t.
It’s a “claim” word. Frankly, it’s a cheap piece of bulls**t. All a liberal has to do is to say he/she (and only he/she) understands the needs of children and thus he/she is uniquely empowered and enlightened and will fight for legislation that will address what we MUST do for the children. Never mind that in such legislation will be ever-growing tribute to teachers unions and bathroom directives and a little bit of grift (in the footnotes) that have no real function other than the grease the current system and buy votes with taxpayer money. This is their “fight”. They are so very brave, fighting the evil Republicans who object to spending more than already record-smashing amounts pent per pupil in most of our failing schools.
Like so many other words liberals have perverted, “must” has been literally shat on.
What “must” occur with Top Secret materials?
How about: keeping them secret? Oh no, that’s so passe. Anybody can read them, so long as they have an interest, you know. So long as the one who leaks said materials didn’t really have the mens rea to spread them far and wide or to sell them...and the only evidence required of them not wanting to sell them should be the absence of a receipt, right? No receipt, no sale, right?
“Must” has to be reserved for irrefutable top-level concerns. We MUST gear up and take the threat from worldwide Islam far more seriously-—starting with the pervasive invasion of cockroaches currently serving in the top levels of the US security agencies.
You think? LOL now that is hilarious