Sometimes, when you grow older, people you admired as heroes when you were much younger, like during your childhood, prove to be even bigger heroes than you at first imagined. That is not always the case, and yes, there have also been plenty of times when, admittedly, the opposite was in fact true. Yet, there are times when people you really looked up to in childhood become people you admire even more as an adult.
This was the case with Jimmy Carter for me. Throughout my childhood, I heard people trashing him and his presidency. Yet when I learned more about him, there seemed to be nothing but upstanding things with which to admire the man for. I still do not understand all of the literal hate towards him, even if many people did not particularly care for his presidency, which frankly, I feel was greatly underrated. After all, he had some significant accomplishments, including the first real Middle East peace breakthrough, the successful Panama Canal Treaty negotiation, and very accurate diagnoses of the major dilemmas facing the United States: a moral corruption (which he was frankly spot on about) as well as an impending energy crisis, with his urging that the United States should become more energy independent.
Yet, there is another person who comes to mind: Mark Hamill. He played Luke Skywalker, who is the main hero in the original Star Wars saga that I dearly loved as a kid. But he also seems like a terrific guy in real life, to boot. He has not backed down from brutal take downs of President Trump, even knowing that this would hurt his fan base, as some of those people surely were Trump supporters. But he did not, and does not, care. Some things are bigger than his wallet and/or ego, and he is passionate about what he feels is wrong in this country, to his undying credit. He has proven to have a great sense of humor, as well as patriotism.
His latest take down of Trump was probably the best one yet! It was a response to the Biblical-themed tweet that likely someone other than "the real Donald Trump" himself wrote, about a plague that would be wiped out. Below is Trump's original tweet, and under it, Hamill's awesome response, proving that brevity really indeed can be the soul of wit. What an economy of words!
Here are the tweets:
Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump · May 3 ....And then came a Plague, a great and powerful Plague, and the World was never to be the same again! But America rose from this death and destruction, always remembering its many lost souls, and the lost souls all over the World, and became greater than ever before!
Mark Hamill @HamillHimself · May 3 Hopefully, you'll only be a one-term Plague.
Can I just add one more awesome response, which can be found on this same page of Hamill's?
This is from Stephen King, who also has proven to be even greater than I had originally thought, when I got into his writings back in the late nineties:
Stephen King @StephenKing · May 6
Stupidity, thy name is Trump.
That about sums it up.
The responses by Hamill and King are on Hamill's Twitter page. Here is the link to that tweet, specifically:
https://twitter.com/hamillhimself/status/1257036346838773761
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