But the classic “Religion of Peace” from the Bush era has to be my all time favorite. Referring to Islam and Peace in the same sentence takes brass balls.
You nailed it. The ‘Religion of Peace’ is the ultimate triumph of a purposefully dumbed down culture so indoctrinated with PC it can no longer perform basic rational functions. Not that long ago if a murderous cult stoned, beheaded, mass-murdered, and threatened to do worse every chance it got, nobody would dream of dubbing it the ‘RoP’. If anybody did, they’d get laughed off the public stage. But the same people with a vested interest in calling black white and vilifying Christians at every turn have won the battle of the mind; people now happily believe mind-numbingly stupid things, and consider themselves superior for it.
Take Natural Born [American] Citizen. It wasn’t long ago that the average man on the street would not accept that that is another way of saying ‘half-foreign’. The idea that being born of foreigners on or near American soil, raised as a foreigner and unable even to name the right number of Am. states would not have struck one person in a hundred as a ‘Natural Born [American] Citizen.
Now, people take actual delight in wallowing in the stupid and the ridiculous. Of course the Founders were PC. Of course they wanted to enshrine the rights of foreign enemies to father future presidents. Of course they believed in the magic pixie dust of American soil, and didn’t think heritage or a common culture had one whit to do w it.
Thus otherwise intelligent people argue on the stupidest side of the argument they can find. PC and post-modernism has so dumbed them down, they can’t even see the trees, nevermind the forest.
Yet they consider themselves geniuses. Take a visit to one of the many hotbeds of stupidity on the Web, such as ObamaConspiracy. You will see them, by the droves, flaunting their presumed brilliance over against the projected insanity and ignorance of ‘birthers’. It is sad, pathetic and scary. Too bad when they finally see the truth, it will be too late for the vast majority of them.