Fourteen months ago, I publicly asked, in all seriousness, the question, “What government shutdown?” The public response to my question—and my disambiguation of “shutdown”—since then: silence. So now I have another question: Why are Republicans, even conservatives, so incorrigibly willing, sometimes it seems even eager, to truckle to word choices foisted on them by the Democrat left? Continue reading Government “Shutdown” Déjà Vu
Category Archives: Language
Critique of (Im-)Pure Conservative Labels
Stupid Republicans are suckered every day into parroting leftist propaganda words, right? But we conservatives, we’re too wily to fall for such leftist chicanery; we see right through their verbal malefactions every time.
Not. Hate to break it to you, fellow conservatives: more often than we’d like to admit, conservatives are vortexed by leftist labels. Whenever that happens, we help them to confer on their maldefined misnomers a perennial place in the all-American vocabulary.
In what follows, I will identify a few of the most egregious leftist verbal booby traps. I will also suggest a simple remedy that can “out” them in public for the shenanigans they are and dispatch them beyond the pale of acceptable American rhetoric. Continue reading Critique of (Im-)Pure Conservative Labels
Stupid Republicans, Ignorant Democrats
There was a time when the words “stupid” and “ignorant” actually had definitions that differentiated them unambiguously. The original etymological meanings behind these words can provide crucial insights into the profound difference, at a foundational cognitive level, between Republicans and Democrats. Continue reading Stupid Republicans, Ignorant Democrats