As David
Horrowitz said, “Worse yet, this is the dominant culture in our universities,
in our media, in our judiciary, in government, in unions, and in the shadow
political universe of non-profits, with billions of tax-free dollars at their
disposal.”
Language is
a powerful tool of discourse, mass political indoctrination and agitation. Marxist
Democrats are quite adept at using inflammatory language and deceptive euphemisms
to suit their nefarious political ends.
In any kind
of ideological and political war, the first victim is truth, replaced with
lies, dressed cleverly by rhetoric, obfuscation, and intentional debasement of language.
George
Orwell wrote an essay in 1946, “Politics and the English Language,” focusing on
language which “is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable,
and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.” Such language, often vague
and meaningless, concealed the oppressive ideology.
Taking private property from farmers and other owners is thus called “transfer of population” or “rectification of frontiers.” The process of sending people to gulags to die becomes “elimination of unreliable elements.” “Pacification” attempted to defend the indefensible acts of bombing and driving out locals from their ancestral lands and giving the land to a population protected by the intentions of the elites.
Orwell pointed out that “the great enemy of clear language is insincerity.” The less sincere the speaker or writer is, particularly politicians and journalists, the more they “disguise their intentions behind euphemisms and convoluted phrasing.”
Academic writing is resplendent with “pretentious diction” and “meaningless words.” According to Orwell, “In certain kinds of writing, particularly in art criticism and literary criticism, it is normal to come across long passages which are almost completely lacking in meaning.”
Concurrent with “Politics and the English Language,” Orwell published “The Prevention of Literature.” The two essays reflect his alarm over the victimization of truth in the distorted use of language. Orwell pointed out the “deliberate use of misleading double-talk language among those he identified as pro-Soviet.” He predicted the type of literature under a future totalitarian society – “formulaic and low grade sensationalism.”
Analyzing some of the euphemisms conceived by today’s progressives, and I only scratched the surface, we realize that Orwell’s words from sixty years ago are still true.
“Undocumented worker” is an obvious mischaracterization of illegal aliens who are invading our country with the approval of corporatist elites in both Democrat and Republican parties. These individuals do have documents from their countries of origin and have broken the law by crossing our borders illegally. Not only are they not repatriated, they are given equal rights with Americans so that corrupt politicians can stay in power in Democrat states like California. These people become illegal voters even though they do not speak the language, do not understand our laws, our Constitution, and do not care that they are helping transform our country into the hell hole they’ve fled. So long as they get undeserved welfare and Social Security benefits, they will vote Democrat in perpetuity.
“Our core values” is Democrat double-speak for demographic and cultural suicide. We allow every unvetted flotsam and jetsam from around the world into our country, disregarding the interests of the American public, their safety, health, and well-being under the guise of “that is not who we are as a nation.” The Democrat Party and the leftist agenda are now making the decision of who we are as a nation and as people, without bothering to consult the rest of America.
If we want to uphold law and order, our borders, language, and culture, we are “bigoted.” The meaning of “bigoted” has been stretched and bastardized to now mean pretty much anything the left wants it to mean. Yet it seems that leftists are truly intolerant toward those holding different opinions. They often turn their intolerance into violence, silencing the opposition and their right to free speech especially in the bastions of liberal academia around the country.
Additionally, if you disagree with any goals of the leftist agenda, you are “racist.” The real meaning of “racism” as described in the Merriam-Webster dictionary, “a belief that race is the primary determinant of human traits and capacities, and that racial differences produce an inherent superiority of a particular race,” has been lost in the leftist double-talk.
If you want legal immigration and national borders, safe from criminals, gangs, disease, and jihadi intrusions, you are a “xenophobe.” All foreign-born individuals who are now proud American citizens and prefer that immigrants follow the rule of law just like they did, are accused of xenophobia, “undue fear of what is foreign and especially of people of foreign origin.”
If you condemn militant jihad, hijra, and Islamic violence, you are an “Islamophobe.” That word silences the opposition so that the liberal goal of unrestricted Islamic invasion continues.
Liberals
call themselves “progressives” even though their goals have nothing to do with
progress but with regression to a totalitarian and oppressive communist society
which has failed everywhere it has been tried. Liberals are repackaging the Bolshevik
effort t by saying that communism was not implemented the right way.
“Liberalism”
does not really represent the meaning of the Latin word, “liber” (free). Liberalism
is disguised incremental socialism that will eventually lead to global
communism. “The American people will
never knowingly adopt socialism. But under the name of “liberalism” they will
adopt every fragment of the socialist program, until one day America will be a
socialist nation, without knowing how it happened.”
People
accept the word “global citizen” without ever asking themselves what it entails.
A “global
citizen” is an individual who lives in a country that is no longer a state;
it has no borders, no sovereignty, no national identity, no passport, and no
national history. Yet most schools and
colleges advertise that their students have been brainwashed and prepared for
global citizenship.
On campuses
around the country, “snowflakes” are cowering and hiding in their “safe
spaces” in fear of reality that contradicts what they’ve been told and
taught since they were born and led across a stage and given participation
trophies.
The word “inhumane”
(without compassion for misery or suffering; cruel) has been trivialized to excuse any
breaking of the law without punishment and repercussions. In the mentally
disordered liberal brain, suffering the consequences of bad choices, decisions,
and subsequent criminality has become cruel and “inhumane.”
The word “diversity”
is no longer used as being diverse and different; it is now a liberal code word
for perversity which must be acknowledged by the other side, encoded into law, and
enforced by the courts.
Homosexuality
hides behind the word “gay” which previously meant “happy.”
Different types of deviance are disguised behind the words “cross-dressers.”
“Gender
fluidity” can be interpreted as any sexual anomaly and psychological confusion
– anything flows.
“Multiculturalism” is the code word for Cultural Marxism
agenda and the transformation of your country into a tower of Babel of illegal
immigrants who have no intention of assimilating or accepting the invaded
culture, its laws, its history, and its language. It is considered “inhumane”
to force such illegal aliens to assimilate and contribute to society in a
meaningful way.
Liberals
force their ideas, plans, and global agenda on the rest of us in the name of “civil
society.” This represents the globalist elites backed by power,
influence, and money to socially engineer our lives any way they wish because
they know best what is good for billions of people around the globe and the
faux science backing them “has been settled.”
The laws and
cries of “equal opportunity” coming from various special interest groups
are not really asking for “equality,” they are asking for preferential
treatment. And “social justice” is not asking for justice, it is asking for
government sanctioned stealing, taking private property and money from those
who worked for it and earned it, and giving it to those who did not earn it and
are not entitled to it.
Social
Security is not an “entitlement,” it is money that people have earned and
contributed into a fund for decades in order to provide them with income in
retirement. It is theft when Social
Security money is given to illegal aliens as soon as they set foot on our soil.
Liberals
created special and protected categories for some races and ethnic groups such
as calling Hispanic women “Latinas.” To my knowledge, Latium was a region in the
former Roman Empire, thus those people could be called Latinas and Latini. Black
people are now “African Americans” even though most of them have never set foot
in Africa nor were they born there. Caucasians don’t call themselves European
Americans. There are Africans who are American citizens and have every right to
call themselves African Americans, including Caucasians from South Africa.
These special categories are not necessary; they are divisive and
counterproductive, treating the special group as a group that cannot survive
without the force of government.
It seems
that liberalism is not really freedom; it thrives on divisiveness, separation,
and inequality. They use deceptive language, euphemisms, and lies to implement
their goals and policies in the name of “democracy” even though we are not a
democracy, we are a constitutional republic. But liberals count on their blind followers
to be ignorant of history and civics.
