One of the most ingenious and effective strategies of the Left on any number of topics is to frame the debate and co-opt the language so effectively that it becomes all but impossible even to discuss the subject honestly
Exactly!
‘’One of the most ingenious and effective strategies of the Left on any number of topics is to frame the debate and co-opt the language so effectively that it becomes all but impossible even to discuss the subject honestly””
When I talked about the conservative BLUE states some moron came along and insisted that I call them red states.
One of the most ingenious and effective strategies of the Left on any number of topics is to frame the debate and co-opt the language so effectively that it becomes all but impossible even to discuss the subject honestly. . . and then to accuse everyone else of using code words. They themselves will not allow - have the ability, from the commanding propaganda heights, to prevent - use from using the language with traditional meanings of traditional words.“Starting” - the phenomenon undoubtedly is even older - with their inversion of the meaning of the word “liberal” in the 1920s. They call themselves “progressives” and us “conservatives” - whereas in fact it is we who favor progress of, by, and for the American people, and people generally, and they who can be relied upon to attack the engines of that progress as evil and monopolistic.
The reality is that American business, free to fail and thus free to succeed and responsible to succeed - has doubled the standard of living repeatedly in our history. To such an extent that an American secretary today arguably has a better standard of living than Queen Victoria had in the Nineteenth Century. And the reality is that the left dominates the propaganda heights because of the homogenizing effect of the telegraph and the Associated Press on journalism. Journalism is only talk, and
People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices. It is impossible indeed to prevent such meetings, by any law which either could be executed, or would be consistent with liberty and justice. But though the law cannot hinder people of the same trade from sometimes assembling together, it ought to do nothing to facilitate such assemblies; much less to render them necessary. - Adam Smith, Wealth of Nations (Book I, Ch 10)The Associated Press reconstitutes a continual virtual “meeting” of all newspapers, and over the past century and a half it has reduced the independence of newspapers to window dressing. Journalism is the biggest monopoly going in America.