Conservatives almost always lose the language war. We had a good run with turning ‘liberal’ into a bad word for about 10 years, but that’s faded bigtime now.
We lost entirely with:
Amnesty = Immigration Reform
Global Warming = Climate Change
Socialized Medicine = Health Care Reform
And those are just recent ones off the top of my head that are very severe.
The problem is that the MSM has so much power and does form the debate and controls what the masses think. It is communist controlled and the people have been brainwashed....our schools were completely subverted
in the 50’s (actually before) and we have been reaping the damage ever since.
Amnesty = Immigration Reform
Global Warming = Climate Change
Socialized Medicine = Health Care Reform
And of course there is also "Disagreement = Racism." This is the one which is going to really kill effective opposition to liberal/progressive advancement. The Right, and generally all who are not on the Left, have failed miserably to respond to the instant accusation of racism for any public or private hesitation or resistance to liberal ideas or policies. Many now argue openly that only white people can be racists, and the right lets this go without any objection. There are no discussions of the impossibility of this regarding the meaning of the word. There are no counters of evidence. It just goes out there and infects the minds of the simple. It seems to me that the Right is not only allowing the Left to constantly define the rules of the debate, but is not even really participating at all.