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The Patriot Post Digest 1-23-2018
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“Dreamer” is another one. Granted, that’s actually derived from an unpassed bill called the DREAM Act (an acronym for Development, Relief, and Education for Alien Minors Act), but that title too was a clever spin on the language to make amnesty for certain illegals sound as appealing as possible. Who could possibly oppose “dreamers26”? Hence the word play.
In days past, “racism” meant prejudice against another race. Now it’s a catch-all term for conservative policies on taxes, “welfare” (another distorted word), immigration, etc. Leftists don’t argue policy merits, they shout “racism” and spike the football, thinking they’ve won the argument.
The homosexual agenda, too, is rife with redefinitions. “Gay,” of course, used to mean carefree. “Love” once meant selfless acts of compassion for someone else; now that “love wins” is the slogan for same-sex marriage, it means forcing your political agenda upon someone else. “Love” — “tolerance” too — means putting good people out of business for conscientiously objecting to providing artistic services for same-sex weddings.
That agenda has expanded to include transgenderism, so we read and watch emotional stories about boys using feminine pronouns and vice versa with the desired result being our celebration of a “brave” choice. Bruce and Bradley are now Caitlyn and Chelsea. Enabling a young child to decide she’s a “boy” is no longer child abuse, it’s “tolerance.” All that matters is affirming a person’s gender dysphoria, not sticking with facts or science — much less actually helping such people.
“Phobia” is a suffix now attached to numerous words and it serves much the same purpose as “racism.” Conservatives are “homophobic,” “transphobic,” “xenophobic” and so on, because it helps leftists dismiss good-faith policy or moral arguments as irrational fear.
Along a similar cultural vein, media organizations refer to “pro-life” groups as “anti-abortion,” which is true in a sense yet woefully inadequate and deliberately negative. “Life” itself has been shifted from conception to birth. “Choice” is a sick euphemism for ending life. Again, never mind scientific definitions when an agenda is on the line.
One of the more sinister efforts at language manipulation is with guns. Media reports ubiquitously refer to certain guns with the misnomer “assault weapons27,” or they speak of “high-capacity” magazines instead of standard capacity. When a deranged individual or a religious fanatic murders numerous people, he is, according to the media, a “gunman,” because that puts the focus on the instrument of death rather than the killer himself. Subtly, that sways people’s emotions against a tool, and it provides — pardon the pun — ammunition for those who would curtail our Second Amendment rights.
Terrorists motived by loyalty to a worldwide entity we in our humble shop call Jihadistan are, to the media, “lone wolves28.” And yet fatherless, medicated and unaffiliated killers are somehow motivated by the “gun lobby”?
Far more broadly speaking is calling our “republic” a “democracy.” The latter has become lazy shorthand for getting to vote for stuff, while “republic” is too often associated with communist tyranny that isn’t republican at all, as in The People’s Republic of… For many Americans, accepting this terminology shift is largely just lazy, but make no mistake — Democrats benefit from the widespread good feelings associated with “democracy,” while the converse is true for Republicans. That same marketing technique was employed when the media shifted red and blue states 30 years ago. Ronald Reagan’s map was blue, but Democrats didn’t want the association with communist red. Hence the change.
Walter Williams recently wrote an outstanding explanation29 of why the Founding Fathers “went to great lengths to ensure that we were a republic and not a democracy.” Moreover, Williams notes, “The word democracy does not appear in the Declaration of Independence, the U.S. Constitution or any other of our founding documents.” In fact, the Founders warned against democracy as its own form of tyranny.
We could go on ad nauseum, but readers can see the point. Words mean things, and all Americans should beware and reject the mainstream media’s redefinitions, which often advance specific points in the Left’s agenda. Unfortunately, most other conservative media outlets don’t bother getting these words right and thus cede ground to leftists. Your Patriot Post team, on the other hand, has endeavored for more than 21 years to fight for the language as part of our fight for both truth and Liberty. We aim for that to continue.
MORE ANALYSIS FROM THE PATRIOT POST
CA Dems May Confiscate Half of Tax Cut Savings34 — A lawmaker claims, “Trump’s tax reform plan was nothing more than a middle-class tax increase.” This is flat-out wrong.
Trump Misses the Mark With Solar Tariffs35 — In essence, Trump’s decision, unfortunately, continues the government’s proclivity for picking winners and losers.
Video: An Open Statement to Washington, DC36 — YouTuber Chad Prather takes our elected representatives to task for their entitled and awful behavior.
BEST OF RIGHT OPINION
Rich Lowry: The Limits of the Resistance37
James Shott: Repairing the Damage of Regulatory Overreach: So Far, So Good38
Ryan T. Anderson: The Sex-Change Revolution Is Based on Ideology, Not Science39
Dennis Prager: Male Sexual Nature: A Primer for the College-Educated40
Amy Wax: Are We Free to Discuss America’s Real Problems?41
For more of today’s columns, visit Right Opinion42.
OPINION IN BRIEF
Cal Thomas: “If we don’t like what is happening in Washington — and few do — the blame must be placed squarely where it belongs. It is ‘we the people’ who send these people here. We send people of different and often opposing viewpoints to Washington and expect them to get along. Many quickly turn opportunities to represent us into opportunities to represent themselves. They become careerists, statists and hypocrites, first supporting one cause or policy when it suits them and then with whiplash intensity turning around and supporting its opposite when it is politically expedient. It is why my favorite lecture circuit laugh line is ‘I’m happy to be here tonight from Washington, DC, where the only politicians with convictions are in prison.’ Is that too cynical? Perhaps. There are a few good men and women in Washington, but they are often overtaken by the swamp, which is more like quicksand, dragging everyone down. If re-election and fundraising become primary goals rather than promotion of the general welfare, everything else becomes secondary.”
SHORT CUTS
For the record: “Over in the department of futile and stupid gestures, the Senate on Monday voted 81-18 to end the government shutdown that Democrats had insisted on late last week. The politics apparently didn’t turn out to be the winner the Democrats anticipated, so they bailed out and called retreat a victory.” —The Wall Street Journal
Peer pressure: “I wouldn’t be surprised if [Chuck] Schumer privately thought the shutdown was a dangerous strategy, but was pushed into it by the hard left in his caucus and key interest groups that support the Democratic party.” —Brit Hume
D'oh! “[Dianne] Feinstein warned that a shutdown would literally kill people … and just voted to keep the shutdown going, for the second time.” —Guy Benson
Setting the bar really low: “The one thing I would say that [Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer] did get is the potential for momentum.” —Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz
Backfire: “Last week, I was moved to tears of joy when Democrats stood up and fought for progressive values and for Dreamers. Today, I am moved to tears of disappointment and anger that Democrats blinked.” —America’s Voice executive director Frank Sharry
Belly laugh of the week: “There is nothing so predictable as media spin in favor of Republicans.” —MSNBC’s Joy Reid
Media bias update: “During their morning and evening news shows from Jan. 19 through Jan. 22, the three broadcast networks covered the 2018 Women’s March nearly seven times more than the 2018 March for Life. ABC, CBS and NBC combined devoted 25 minutes, 24 seconds on the Women’s March, but just 3 minutes, 46 seconds on the pro-life rally.” —Newsbusters’ Katie Yoder
Race bait: “The president is a white supremacist. We heard in Charlottesville our president is a terrorist sympathizer, and our president is a clear and present danger to non-white people in America.” —MSNBC contributor Jason Johnson
And last… “The FBI can delete evidence of investigation bias, but try telling the IRS you ‘failed to preserve’ receipts for all your deductions.” —Twitter satirist @hale_razor
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