Posted on 06/26/2024 11:26:28 AM PDT by MtnClimber
Anti-liberty leftists have turned lying with language into an art form, where they are cast as the “good guys” while their very careful word choices automatically render anyone opposing them as “anti-democratic.” Pro-freedom people have rightfully learned to eschew leftist word propaganda, but far too many on the right side of history still submit to the words of the authoritarian left. This has to stop if we are to win the culture war and save civilization as we know it.
The problem is that this has a more insidious aspect, in that the ever false “liberal-conservative” political spectrum model continually confuses the situation — even more than contradictorily referring to authoritarians as true supporters of liberty with terms of the same libertas word origin. But first, consider the case that Dennis Prager makes in proving that the left isn’t liberal, starting with the fact that they have almost nothing in common: [Prager video at link]
He makes his case with six key examples. He then asks the question: if leftists and liberals are so different — and that difference is increasing by the day — why don’t liberals oppose the left?
It’s because they have been brainwashed into fearing the pro-freedom right. He quotes Harvard Law School professor Alan Dershowitz, one of the best known liberals in the country — and one of the staunchest defenders of President Trump —saying, “As a liberal, as an American, and as a Jew, I far more fear the left than the right.”
This is why many liberals are moving to the right side of history and away from the fascist far left and why the national socialist media have dialed their Hitler rhetoric up to eleventy in recent months.
This is also why we need to stop insulting true liberals as “libs”....
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
Yes, Authoritarians, communists and NAZIs are on the left and are “leftists”. Conservatives are in the center and liberals, libertarians and anarchists are, to varying degrees, farther to the right and are the true “far right”. We should not call leftists liberals.
Totalitarian Zealots works for me.................
Delusional children of Satan.
Demoncrats
They hardly ever use the words ‘liberty’ and ‘freedom’.
They talk incessantly about ‘democracy’ and ‘justice’, yet that is the last thing they want.
What they really want is ‘mob rule’ and ‘revenge’........................
“Capitalism” is a pejorative used by communists to imply that communism is a valid way to organize an economic system. The correct expression is Free Enterprise.
I call them regressives. Not progressive. They’ve taken us back 70 years.
“They hardly ever use the words ‘liberty’ and ‘freedom’.”
Using those words gets you on the “potential domestic terrorist” list.
Liberalism, the belief in freedom, equality, democracy and human rights, is historically associated with thinkers such as John Locke and Montesquieu, and with constitutionally limiting the power of the monarch, affirming parliamentary supremacy, passing the Bill of Rights and establishing the principle of "consent of the governed".The fact is that the classic liberal beliefs have existed for so long with us that they have become our conservative beliefs.The 19th century saw liberal governments established in nations across Europe, South America and North America.[2] In this period, the dominant ideological opponent of classical liberalism was conservatism, but liberalism later survived major ideological challenges from new opponents, such as fascism and communism. Liberal government often adopted the economic beliefs espoused by Adam Smith, John Stuart Mill and others, which broadly emphasized the importance of free markets and laissez-faire governance, with a minimum of interference in trade.
Like the classic liberalism you have easily duped even among Freepers who regress into Marxist followers and NAZI supporters... there is a term for this but all I can remember is it starts with a letter in NaZi.
The Left has controlled language for decades.
Language gives ideas and things names, meanings, and life.
Control the language and you control the people.
It has ever been thus.
Nothing they say van be taken at face value, everything (including the occasional real fact) is part of a ploy. They are ployers.
Could you translate that into something that makes sense?
Control the language and you control the people.
I used to not believe this. But, I have changed my mind.
the simplest truth...”conservatives seek agreement while liberals demand compliance” L.Star
Control the language and you control the people.
I used to not believe this. But, I have changed my mind.
The Dems pirate symbolism and can even turn a zeitgeist on its head.
For over a century the color red was the symbol of Communism until some bright nightly news minion made the election return maps represent Republican results with the color red and the Democrats were colored "true blue", but not to worry, there was not a peep out of us. Now the color red is for everything Republican represented with the color red. We accept it and think nothing of it while the commissars snicker and giggle behind our backs.
RWR always had Blue Balloons. They stuck it to the Pubes and they didn’t fight back.
Our PDJT, The GOAT, flipped the “Red” State Eff U on its head.
Everything Trump is Gold, Gold, Gold. Buildings, MaL, even Sneakers.
The Gold looks great with Red, really Pops.
The Guy has a marketing knack like few others.
The 2000 election was not the first during which the news media used colored maps to depict voter preferences in the various states, but it was the first time the current red-blue terminology was used. In previous elections, the color assignments or even the actual colors used were often different.
That was many years before President Trump ran for office.
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