The people we elect ‘look’ like us. Thats always been the way of it.
Because they don’t want to be understood and be held to any specifics.
I could wish this was the worst problem our politicians had. This situation is not so bad that one cannot perceive what they mean.
The general public can’t speak English either. There is no incentive for would-be leaders to speak it correctly.
In fact, what is “correctly”? Is there a standard any more?
Properly used, English is a very precise language.
The last thing a politician wants is to be pinned down to an exact meaning.
What you said. Yeah.
“dumpster fire of an election”
HA! Good one.
I have much more sympathy for someone who speaks fractured syntax but conveys meaning, unlike every professional politician on the face of the planet.
We can tell how amazing uk politicians are by the nation they created....
> And, of course, Barack Obama is a talented writer with a gift for turning a sentence, even on the spot.
When his teleprompter goes down he trails off into nothing until his minders turn it back on.
And his book was written by Bill Ayers.
They grew up speaking gibberish and when challenged, they said "Oh you know what I mean".
And their generation is teaching our children and grandchildren - unless we and our own children are smart enough to home school, and teach them correct English.
There are several reasons for this:
* liberals refusing to use straightforward terms for concepts and instead using more abstract and emotionally removed phrases for ideas; George Carlin’s rant on this was brilliant a decade ago like shell shock turning into PTSD.
* their redefinition of words to not include them for bad things (blacks beating up whites screaming racist insults can’t be racist per the bias + power definition) and include them when it isn’t (well if an X is this and this, then I’m X!”
* the in group language of SJWs getting reinforced in academia and the elite seen as the “elite, educated” dialect, allowing them to dismiss those who don’t use the fancy proper terms as stupid, which fits the liberal prejudiced view of conservatives fine. And that view reinforces that dialect as the right, proper and refined one that “good” people must use
* They do it in an effort to alter the emotions tied to the concepts, per Sapir-Whorf theory that language shapes though. If they ban “gendered” or “racist” terms, they think they’ll eliminate those thoughts - but they have to invent replacements that only their elite know first. Now we’re back to in-group language reinforcing social class status.