Posted on 07/24/2016 7:47:21 AM PDT by AC Beach Patrol
Brevity is the soul of wit and wisdom.
I heard Jack Shafer is a short blocky shemale, is that true?
I like your comparison of a sentence filled with scientific terms with a sentence that simply makes the point. That explains much of why Trump chooses simple language, but I think there is another part.
The last several decades has seen a marked loss of critical thinking skills and the language itself reflects this change. Today’s speech is filled with made up words and fallacial thought processes that intentionally avoid clarity. Clarity is often uncomfortable for liberals seeking a safe space. Politically correct jargon is designed to obscure conclusions, such as what is true or false, right or wrong, winner or loser - all of these dichotomies are discouraged and the very words that define them are purged from the language and replaced with psycho babble and newspeak.
So, I agree Trump’s simple speech is partly to connect with the average person who has no need to bother with more advanced vocabulary. However, I think he also realizes that he must avoid the fancy sounding sociology economic language used by politicians, social engineers, community organizers, academics and journalists, if he is to cut through the politically correct layers of agenda filled nonsense and speak the truth.
I agree, there is a lot of that. Legal documents seem written deliberately to confuse and obfuscate. Try reading any sociological treatise, and it quickly descends into pure nonsense.
Another trend is that the language leftists use to describe events is selected to subtly change the perception of events. For example, ten years ago, no one would have even thought of allowing men to enter women's restrooms under any circumstance. Then someone, somewhere got the brilliant idea of making this into a "human right" and the leftist media picked this up as the newest cause célèbre. Once the activists started pushing to allow men to use women's restrooms, normal people responded by passing laws against the practice. And the left immediately changed their strategy, presenting the issue as if men have ALWAYS been using women's restrooms, and decrying those bigoted "cis-gendered homophobes" for trying to deny them their right by passing laws against it.
These trends, of course, feed into the Trump phenomenon. Ordinary people are tired of seeing the culture perverted by outlandish agendas.
The way I see that men’s room ladies room thing is - it’s simply a convention, much like the convention of driving on the right (or left) side of the road. It’s not a matter of right and wrong, it doesn’t matter which side, but by agreeing, driving is possible.
Similarly, 99.99% of people agreeing to be comfortable with sharing a bathroom with people of their own sex makes it possible to accommodate hundreds of students, shoppers or employees with just a few bathrooms.
The savings in infrastructure, class time, shopping time or work time is immeasurable when compared to the unthinkable alternative of sending everyone home or having hundreds of private facilities.
I really think it’s a socio-economic convention that has more to do with practical efficiency than it has to do with morals or right to privacy. The left stirs up these false conflicts as political wedges with no regard for their economic consequences.
Since when has the left cared about economic consequences? If they cared about that, we wouldn't have Obamacare, a massive welfare state, efforts to keep growing already bloated and redundant bureaucracies...
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