特朗普固然一派胡言，無誠信，所有文字都只是操作和藉口。但我收到賀錦麗的電郵也不得不疑惑：
「B, I know the outcome of the presidential election is not what we wanted. And I know you gave so much of yourself to this fight. As I said on Wednesday: The light of America’s promise will always burn bright —as long as we never give up, and as long as we keep fighting……Every Democrat we elect this year is one more check on Donald Trump’s power, and one more building block for the America we believe in. That is why I am asking you to support the Harris Fight Fund.」請你捐出十蚊、一百蚊……
這當然是bulk email。原文照錄，好讓大家切身感受，那種技巧但又詞窮的寒酸。怎樣化妝，也掩飾不到選舉崩盤後的沮喪絕望……卻也還得繼續—於是自己掩飾，說希望在未來，邊度跌低就邊度起身！自己呃自己說，民主是偉大的，信者得救！繼續捐款支持絕不放棄—終會有翻天的一日！
「This is not a time to throw up our hands. This is a time to roll up our sleeves. This is a time to organize, to mobilize and to stay engaged for the sake of freedom and justice and the future that we all know we can build together.」排句偶句，文字堆砌令情緒高漲，rhetoric and hyperboles，全世界政府的伎倆。
原來，殺了文字的，不只是特朗普賀錦麗，還有各種能力高或能力低的政客掮客。他們有本事令文字不再有意義，愈豪言壯語的文案，愈發比照出現實的不堪，甚至掩飾不了骯髒訛詐。一九六〇年代西方文學家已洞悉的「政治扼殺文字」，今天更橫行無忌了。
2024年11月11日