Democrat Doublespeak and Dumbspeak

Democrat Doublespeak and Dumbspeak

 

Merriam-Webster.com defines doublespeak as “language that can be understood in more than one way and that is used to trick or deceive people” and Dictionary.com defines the term as “evasive, ambiguous language that is intended to deceive or confuse,” definitions almost as deceptive as doublespeak itself insofar as they apply to Democrats.

Of the two, the latter definition comes closer to describing how Obama and his designated flack, his minions and fellow liberal-leftists, employ the rhetorical device of doublespeak. 

There is only one way to interpret their version of doublespeak. While clearly designed to trick and deceive the American people, their version is more akin to the technique of Hitler’s ”Big Lie” and Orwell’s Big Brother because it leaves no room for other interpretations.

Hitler coined the phrase “big lie” regarding alleged Jewish perfidy in Mein Kampf, his propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels refined it to rationalize the “Final Solution” for the Jewish “problem,” George Orwell popularized it in “1984″ with Big Brother’s “War is Peace,  Freedom is Slavery, Ignorance is Strength,” and the Obamians are trying like hell to take the rhetorical device to a whole, new, disturbing level.

Take, for example, the absurd contentions that Obama has “substantially improved the tranquillity of the global community” (White House press flack Josh Earnest), that “Obamacare implementation went great and people love it” (Vox co-founder Matt Yglesias), that  rewarding illegal aliens with American citizenship would “reduce the deficit and increase long-term economic growth” (Democrat Rep. Chris van Hollen), and “businesses are hiring at historic rates” (Joe Biden).

There is next to no tranquility on Planet Earth, Obamacare is widely despised, illegals will exacerbate unemployment and destroy our economy, and the jobs America’s clown prince refers to are predominantly part-time and offer no benefits or future.

Those liberal-leftist excursions into lying fantasy have already been exposed for what they are, lib-left excursions into lying fantasy and Obamian doublespeak.

Similar but less-publicized excursions were tried by the queens of nitwitdom, the now-totally liberal-leftist cast of ABC’s “The View” who took Democrat doublespeak down a few notches to the even lower level of dumbspeak. . . . (Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=38248.)

"Progressive" Madness

"Progressive" Madness

 

As Michael Marshall wrote in The Upright Man, ”I don’t know what it is with the mad, but they’ve certainly got force of will. Maybe it’s not having the checks and balances the rest of us have, or perhaps I’m kidding myself: maybe their minds are simply clearer, unclouded with the anxieties and morality that the rest of us are swaddled with. Perhaps they have the courage to point their magical thinking at the stars.”

And, perhaps, like American “progressives,” they’re nuts and so twisted by their ”progressive” madness that they can’t distinguish right from wrong?

How else can we describe so-called “progressives” as anything other than nuts and deranged or, to be a tad merciful, confused and muddled, when they so consistently say things and act as if they had lost what humanity and common sense they ever had?

Contemporary progressives aren’t thinking magically about Marshall’s stars.  More typically, they are inclined to bark at the moon, not pointlessly but rather with misinformed and usually vicious intent directed at their conservative opponents or simply directed at anything and everything most rational Americans value, such as education, religion, national integrity, public safety, even at life itself. 

Case in point: National Organization for Women president Terry O’Neill published an editorial on the Huffington Post titled, “Abortion, Like Contraception, Is Essential Health Care That Saves Lives.”  Life.com aptly paraphrased that title as “Babies Wouldn’t Die So Much If We’d Just Kill Them Before They Died.”

If he were on our side, buffoonish VP Joe Biden would surely say that progressives are literally tearing America apart, a reality that is figuratively true.

Take, for example, the current uproar over the imposition of the Common Core State Standards Initiative, a misnomer since that “initiative” for re-vamping American education was hatched in Washington, D.C., not in any of the nation’s 50 states.  Despite widespread parental opposition to the Common Core, opponents are being arrested when they dared to voice their unprogressive disagreement with the salacious Core curriculum, as in the cases of Robert Small in Baltimore and William Baer in Guilford, N.H.

Or, consider chemistry professor at East Carolina University, Eli Hvastkovs, who forbade his graduating students in an email from thanking God in their personal, commencement statements saying that you can thank anyone you wish but, “You can’t thank God. I’m sorry about this–and I don’t want to have to outline the reasons why.”  Hvastkovs could have and should have outlined his reasons, which would have outed him as an atheistic  “progressive” who wanted to impose his lack of belief on the graduates.

And, think of our national policy . . . (Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=37182.)