Can Marty McFly Save America from the Supreme Court?
How Michael J. Fox picked up a guitar and became an instant symbol for the only thing that can save a nation on the ropes.
Pull out your red puffer vests, boys and girls. It’s time to make like Michael J. Fox in Back to the Future if you want to save America from an overtly partisan Supreme Court whose recent presidential immunity decision is the legal equivalent of Parkinson’s Disease.
You know what Parkinson’s is, don’t you? It’s a “a long-term neurodegenerative disease of mainly the central nervous system that affects both the motor and non-motor systems of the body.”
Parkinson’s is the disease from which Michael J. Fox has suffered for the past 33 years — since 1991 when he was only 30 years old.
If you want to know what this illness does to a human being, just look at the photographs of Fox over the years. Despite a valiant and heroic effort, it has taken a terrible toll on his life.
But through it all, his spirit has remained defiant and strong. The actor is only 5 feet, 4 inches tall — a veritable David against a Goliath illness for which there is no cure(though medicines can help control its symptoms).
