Posted on 10/25/2016 7:26:33 AM PDT by Auntie Mame
Whenever you want to go around town calling Democrats “liberals,” you should remember . . . Democrat Kathleen Kane who was convicted of using her public office to terrorize and persecute her political enemies. Only an idiot would still call Democrats “liberals” after seeing what they do in office.
Words matter.
One of the things I see Republicans do all the time that helps Democrats a lot is when a writer on the Right uses the word “liberal” to describe any Democrat. To me, that is like cutting a check for $100 and sending it to the DNC for every time you say or write that word.
Focus groups prove over and over again that “liberal” is a word that the general public enjoys hearing and they have a good connotation that comes with it: they think it means open-minded, generous, kind, and caring. They associate it with sentences such as, “I would like a liberal helping of sprinkles on my ice cream sundae” and “While on vacation, I am looking forward to applying suntan lotion liberally to wherever Channing Tatum will let me touch him.”
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The people who foolish Republicans keep calling “liberals” are actually fiendish monsters who seem more at home in the Soviet Union than what is supposed to be America.
Democrats today are firmly totalitarians who use mechanisms of the state to punish their enemies whenever Democrats are elected to positions of power.
These are ruthless people who have no qualms about weaponizing the IRS to shut down conservative groups or pressure the FBI to destroy its own credibility by hamstringing an investigation into wrongdoing by a high-ranking Democrat official such as Hillary Clinton. There is nothing “liberal” about any of this…and you are an idiot if you don’t see how calling these people “liberals” helps them.
What you are doing is helping to obscure all of the truly scary and vile things that Democrats are up to now that they never used to do back when they really were tree-hugging former hippies who were just misguided. These new Democrats are hardcores leftists.
Take disgraced former Pennsylvania Attorney General Kathleen Kane for example. Would you stupidly call her a “liberal”? She is a classic example of the sort of totalitarian leftists that Democrats have become.
* She used her elected office as a weapon to persecute and torment her enemies.
* When caught, she lied about the horrific things she was doing to abuse her power.
* She believed she was untouchable and unstoppable and presided over a reign of terror in the Attorney General’s office, thinking that she could do as she please in autocratic fashion.
* Even when convicted, she felt so privileged that she truly believed she should receive no jail time because she is that special of a snowflake.
If you are someone who still, in the year 2016, goes around calling Democrats “liberals” I really wish you would stop and think about people like Kathleen Kane. THIS is who Democrats are now. Whatever you remember them being 30 years ago doesn’t matter, because THIS is who they are now and THIS is who is causing all of the horrible problems we have today.
And you are helping them!
When you call Democrats by a name that accurately reflects who they are — leftists, totalitarians, lefties, cultural marxists, etc. — you make them sound LESS appealing to people who either don’t follow the news much or who do whatever the tee-vee says for them to do. But when you call Democrats “lefties,” you make Democrats sound UNAPPEALING.
There is no positive connotation to the word “Left.” Everything thinks “left” is a negative: being left behind; something coming out of left field; a person being left-handed (and, thus, alien in that way because most people are right-handed).
Words matter…but Republicans never want to admit that. Democrats, on the other hand, realize how much words matter and they focus group test everything. If something isn’t working for them, they drop it. And they never say that thing again.
Take for instance Hillary Clinton awkwardly saying “Trumped-up trickle-down economics.” You can tell that she really loved that phrase; there’s a good chance she thought of that herself. She tried using that at a debate and then in some stump speeches but she was lampooned for it. Even Saturday Night Live, which rarely does anything to ding her, mocked her for this phrase. And she has not said it in public again since. Her campaign pretends it doesn’t exist now.
Why? Because it wasn’t working and since people could use it to make fun of her, it was hurting her more than it could help her. So she deleted the phrase from her programming. And all Democrats followed suit in lockstep. This is why Democrats win elections and why Republicans lose so often.
Democrats understand that words, branding, and messaging matter. Republicans instead say, “I’ve always called them liberals and I’m gonna keep calling them liberals because you can’t tell me what to do!”
How well has that worked so far?
I fully agree with this and have been consistent about using ‘Leftist’ and ‘Statist’ for most of the past year, if not longer! I also dislike the use of ‘Progressive’ as it too is TOO POSITIVE for the Low Information Voter. If it is a term that they have STOLEN, we need to dishonor that theft and call them for what they are; the Manic, Marching Leftist Morons with Delusions of Competency in State Control (MMLMDCSC)!
My ex would shut me down if I spoke of liberals or Democrats, even occasionally ‘the Left’. I could speak of Progressives and it was OK.
The Dims are all about using cute, feel-good phrases to pander to their emotional base. Any bill that begins with ‘affordable’, or describes ‘fairness’ is to be avoided. Even the homos co-opted God’s rainbow to use as their flag. It’s a psych game.
“Collectivist” is the term Ayn Rand came up. When we refer to Hillary : Hard core collectivist wife of Impeached Ex-President Clinton.
Since "Con" is the opposite of "Pro" I suggest they be called "Congressives". It fits because they seek to use Government (Congress ,Politburo , Dictator, whatever) to usher in their imaginary utopia.
I don’t think we’re allowed to call them what we’re thinking, are we?
‘Globalist’ should be today’s catchword.
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