Posted on 06/02/2025 5:58:42 AM PDT by MtnClimber
This week, we saw a spate of news stories blaming Democrats’ troubles on their vocabulary. They’re just using too many darn multisyllabic, academic-sounding words and turning off numbskull voters, is the basic message.
Seriously?
The Democrats’ problem isn’t linguistic, it’s ideological. But no one in the party wants to admit that.
A Washington Post story this week – “Democratic troubles revive debate over left-wing buzzwords” – begins by saying:
Maybe it’s using the word ‘oligarchs’ instead of rich people. Or referring to ‘people experiencing food insecurity’ rather than Americans going hungry. Or ‘equity’ in place of ‘equality,’ or ‘justice-involved populations’ instead of prisoners.
As Democrats wrestle with who to be in the era of President Donald Trump, a growing group of party members — especially centrists — is reviving the argument that Democrats need to rethink the words they use to talk with the voters whose trust they need to regain.
The Post goes on to say that “liberal candidates too often use language from elite, highly educated circles,” and quotes Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear saying that: “It makes Democrats or candidates using this speech sounding like they’re not normal.”
Earlier this year, a group of centrist Democrats gathered at a ritzy resort in Loudoun County, Virginia, the richest county in the country, to talk among themselves about how to regain working-class trust.
Among the recommendations: “get out of elite circles and into real communities” and embrace “traditional American imagery.”
This week, we also learned that Democrats are spending $20 million to “study the syntax, language, and content that gains attention and virality” of “American men.” The project is called – and we are not making this up – “Speaking with American Men: A Strategic Plan.”
So, if we understand all this correctly, the answer to the Democrats’ problems is to wave more flags, pretend to like beer, drop more f-bombs, and stick to one-syllable words?
The problem is that voters can smell the phoniness a mile away. Just ask Tim Walz
The country has overwhelmingly shifted to the right because Democratic policies no longer appeal to anyone other than insulated, elitist, over-educated snobs who can’t stand the majority of their fellow countrymen.
In a truly eye-opening report, the New York Times found a massive disparity in the number of counties that have shifted rightward in the past three presidential elections (1,433) versus those that shifted to the left (a mere 57).
What’s more, almost all the counties where Republicans made gains are working class, while Democratic gains were isolated in wealthier, better-educated counties.
Is that because Democrats use words such as “intersectionality” or “cisgendered.”
Hardly. It’s the Democrats’ far-left agenda that is turning off voters. Their policies, not their word choices, are what resulted in a flood of illegal immigrants, economic stagnation, sky-high inflation, worsening violent crime rates, growing racial strife, climate and “gender” fanaticism. They can’t talk to regular Americans anymore because nothing they stand for these days appeals to regular Americans.
And it’s not because of how Trump talks, but what he talks about, what he proposes, and what he’s achieving that is drawing people to the Republican Party. You know, common-sense things such as secure borders, lower taxes, fewer federal mandates, less wasteful spending, safer streets, better schools, an unapologetically America First foreign policy.
Democrats can break out their thesauruses all they want, but their fortunes will never change so long as their agenda is dictated by the likes of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
Most people don’t want socialism. I don’t believe most people think democRATs are very bright.
Wow, must be a lousy American male. I don’t watch football, I can’t stand the taste of beer and I don’t use profanity.
“Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.” - Winston Churchill
Leftist have already screwed up the language, so this is certainly consistent with their usual tactics. I hope they have a gay time in this next iteration of hiding the truth of their intentions.
2nd lousy American male here apparently.
RE: “Wow, must be a lousy American male. I don’t watch football, I can’t stand the taste of beer and I don’t use profanity.”
Same here. Maybe that makes us a protected class of some sort, lol. I think it’s hilarious that leftists are so out of touch with men that they resort to stereotypes as their source of understanding men. The cussing that their men do, like Tim Waltz, seems very gay, imo.
The democrats problem isn’t linguistic, it’s ideological.
No room for arguement on that fact.
They like Hitler blame the people not his ideological for failure.
“Maybe it’s using the word ‘oligarchs’ instead of rich people. Or referring to ‘people experiencing food insecurity’ rather than Americans going hungry. Or ‘equity’ in place of ‘equality,’...”
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Or “women” instead of “men”, or “misgendered” instead of “insane”...
It's both!
But linguistics is downstream from ideology, so if you start with a polluted ideology...
Regards,
Terrific column there. Makes a lot of sense. Thanks for posting MtnClimber.
“ Earlier this year, a group of centrist Democrats gathered at a ritzy resort. . .”
There are no centrist Democrats anymore. If there were any they would know what the problem is and they wouldn’t gather at a ritzy resort.
Ahhh, this is why we have been seeing the f bombs and the use of words like $hit and whatnot by Democrats like Jasmine Crockett. I thought it was odd that she and others started using expletives.
What I find amusing is that Hakeem Jeffries and Jasmine Crockett have both gone to some kind of hand talking school. Their gestures are so contrived when they are on camera it’s funny to watch.
Besides, if all you have is emotion as your premise ... then it says your message has no substance. Everyone senses that immediately!
Always good to periodically display Churchill’s opinion on socialism. He had a brilliant way with words.
Yes they are infested with mny problem they are carriers of chaos.
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The DemonicRat’s problem is the public is not as stupid as they think.
They think if they hide their intentions they can get back in the game.
Democraps have sht for brains...
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