Posted on 08/24/2025 12:10:50 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
Democrats seem to think they can talk their way out of the political wilderness.
Listen closely and you can hear it through the din of their all-caps Trumpian X feeds, their hourslong “manosphere” podcast interviews and their more frequent swearing.
Nearly 10 months after the 2024 elections, and the party is still embroiled in self-recriminations over where they’re talking, what they’re talking about and, now, the actual words they’re using. Or, more precisely: which words they shouldn’t utter.
In a new memo, shared exclusively with POLITICO, the center-left think tank Third Way is circulating a list of 45 words and phrases they want Democrats to avoid using, alleging the terms put “a wall between us and everyday people of all races, religions, and ethnicities.” It’s a set of words that Third Way suggests “people simply do not say, yet they hear them from Democrats.”
They span six categories — from “therapy speak” to “explaining away crime” — and put in sharp relief a party that authors say makes Democrats “sound like the extreme, divisive, elitist, and obfuscatory, enforcers of wokeness.” In the document, titled “Was It Something I Said?” Third Way argues that to “please the few, we have alienated the many — especially on culture issues, where our language sounds superior, haughty and arrogant,” according to the memo.
Among the blacklisted terms: privilege … violence (as in “environmental violence”) … dialoguing … triggering … othering … microaggression … holding space … body shaming … subverting norms … systems of oppression … cultural appropriation … Overton window … existential threat to [the climate, democracy, economy] … radical transparency … stakeholders … the unhoused … food insecurity … housing insecurity … person who immigrated … birthing person … cisgender … deadnaming … heteronormative … patriarchy … LGBTQIA+ …
(Excerpt) Read more at politico.com ...
Rearranging the deckchairs on the Demtanic....
Words, phrases, AND deeds the Democratic party has already left out ...
Non- violence, truth, honesty, self-deluded, woman, man, sincerity, kindness, non- victim, governmental overreach, non grifter, homeless-industrial-NGO complex,humbleness, faceless, sin, robber, psychotic. criminal, just punishment Etc.
I can think of a few other things they need to cut.
In other words, do not change one iota of your insane power mongering. Pretend you love your neighbor, love the Founding Fathers, the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution.
Just hide your hatred of all of the above until you are back in power again. Then, make darn sure you are NEVER out of power again. Follow some of the European model. Make anything MAGA a Federal Offense, with a minimum of 10 years hard time and re-education to get you mind right.
Make Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Jackson Brown the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. Hunter Biden as Attorney General. The Fake Fascist Fraudster Fauci head of all health care.
From what I hear, almost none of the Latino people approve of this neutral term of Latinix, but a lot of progressives keep pushing it anyway.
Short answer is a resounding NO. The fact that they've suddenly gone mad for censorship is admission of failure in that regard. The pronoun mania is another. And when you get to the point where you have to use "persons who can get pregnant" instead of "women" and try to enforce that with social shunning and state coercion, you're so lost you're never coming back.
You can’t make Hunter Biden the Attorney General because that position requires a person to be there most of the time while appearing sober. You can be partisan, corrupt and lie to Congress on a regular basis but you have to look professional while doing it.
Sooooo now they just need to lie and obfuscate who they really are by avoiding words. Just dont think we are in a age where that is going to work.
I don’t think it’s as grim for the D’s as that.
Their problem is that the stupid word games progressives play reflect underlying policies that they are quite determined to inflict on the rest of the nation.
The question is, if they stop using their stupid words and pretend not to hate the rest of us, will enough voters think they have become normal Americans again that they vote for them.
I don’t think the answer to that is yet clear.
It may not be until 2032 or even 2036 until they'll be able to pull that off. All they have to do is to find somebody who is presentable and somewhat charismatic (Wes Moore?).
Then it'll be the last election ever.
“It may not be until 2032 or even 2036 until they’ll be able to pull that off. All they have to do is to find somebody who is presentable and somewhat charismatic (Wes Moore?).
Then it’ll be the last election ever.”
They thought 2016, 2020 and 2024 would be the last real election ever. Didn’t work.
Yes, all of that and some more.
And the band played on...
George Orwell predicted this in his prophetic 1984 and dubbed it newspeak.
Reminds me of Rush, “Lackhoff rhymes with..” when the democrats hired a liberal linguist to optimize democrat party newspeak.
One four year democrat term and another 50 million illegal come in and it is over in a generation. Immigration, legal and illegal, is what has doomed the western world. Turds breed like rabbits.
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