At the beginning of this century, speechwriters for a struggling British Conservative Party leader gave him the line "do not underestimate the determination of a quiet man" to try to turn his dullness into a virtue. Media generally found it amusing, he was greeted on his return to Parliament by shushing from the opposition, and within the year he'd been replaced without even being given the chance to lead his party into an election.
But it was a pithy enough line to find its way onto inspirational quote lists, and fifteen years later was improbably adorning the Twitter profile of Colin Kaepernick (complete with correct attribution to a politician Kaepernick almost certainly hasn't paid any attention to, never mind been inspired by). Can't wait for British civil rights icons to be inspired by the words of Jeb Bush!
"When the Women's March feminist organisation tweeted "Rest in peace and power, Barbara Bush" to mark the 2018 death of the conservative political matriarch, Twitter users criticised the organisation harshly for abandoning its radical beginnings"
* ᵇʸ ˢᵒᵐᵉᵒⁿᵉ ᵒᵗʰᵉʳ ᵗʰᵃⁿ ᴬᵇʳᵃʰᵃᵐ ᴸⁱⁿᶜᵒˡⁿ
Goes to show how sceptical we must be when reading things online, even when they sound plausible. As the late great Abraham Lincoln once said according to something I read recently... "The problem with quotes found on the internet is that many simply are not true".