Correct. Which is why Rand artfully avoided that cliche.
One of the things that drives me nuts in the book and in real life is the double speak.
I so want someone to tell the looters that they are spouting a load of bull.
I could have cheered when Hank did it with his Mother over her request to give Phillip a job. Even then he didn’t go far enough.
Double speak was a key element in the novel 1984...
Propaganda, disinformation, double speak is a key element of leftist movements everywhere..we’ve lost the march with confronting this.
Erosion of the language is the first step..It is so entrenched that it requires an all out war but the talking heads lack the guts...Talk radio is confronting it to some degree but the first line of battle is calling a spade a spade in every aspect of your own life.
I’ve already started doing it every opportunity I have.