Posted on 08/08/2019 4:05:03 AM PDT by Kaslin
People on the right and the left have been warning of a “new Civil War” for some time now. There may or may not be something brewing in the future, where liberals and conservatives simply cannot live together, but we aren’t there yet. There is, however, a war raging right now, and it threatens our ability not only to avoid something horrible, but communicate at all.
Progressives are actively working to control what people say by controlling what words are acceptable to use. If you can control the language, you can control the people. And controlling people is the ultimate goal of the left.
Select words, particularly if they’ve been used by President Trump, are deemed to be “unacceptable” or see their meaning perverted, redefined by the left to mean something nefarious to put them out of public use, no matter how accurate they are.
“Infested” and “invasion” are the latest two.
As someone who lived in the city of Baltimore for 13 years (most people you see on TV attacking the president live in Baltimore County, which is very different), when the president tweeted about how the district represented by Congressman Elijah Cummings was “rat and rodent infested,” I knew firsthand he was right. I’ve seen it, I lived it. Walking home at night, it was common to see giant rats galloping across the street.
But the truth has very little place in modern political discourse, especially in election season.
Most commentators ignored the “rat and rodent” part of the quote, focusing exclusively on “infested.” Why? Because these talking heads want to paint the president as a racist.
By taking the word by itself, the people who decry Project Veritas as “heavily editing” their videos (which every news organization does) and taking things out of context, took the word out of context to imply Trump was talking about poor black people. This shifted the conversation from the very real plight of poor black people to race. Democrats want the focus on the latter, it allows them to emotionally manipulate people, the former only highlights the failings of generational Democratic Party loyalty and control.
So the word “infested,” which is the perfect and accurate word to describe the situation with rodents in Baltimore, is now portrayed as a “dog whistle” to racists, some sort of secret code.
Now it’s “invasion.” The president called more than 100,000 illegal aliens marching across the southern border an “invasion” because, well, is there a better word? With more than 1.3 million illegal aliens expected to enter the country this year, almost 10 times more than the number of soldiers who stormed the beaches at Normandy in 1944, what word or phrase would accurately capture that other than invasion?
But Trump having said it months ago is now being used by dishonest progressive cable news bile-spewers as the inspiration for the terror attack in El Paso. Conveniently, these arbiters of truth ignore the part of the monster’s manifesto that sounds like a direct rip-off of their “green new deal” talking points because “journalism,” or something.
They’ve also moved away from caring about the Dayton shooting because the killer there was one of their own. I know it’s fashionable for conservatives to point out that “we don’t blame them for the actions of someone who shares their politics,” like that will somehow cause leftists to act like decent human beings. To hell with that. These are their rules, we damn sure need to make them live by them.
Morning Joe and CNN’s prime time lineup share the politics of the guy who murdered 9 and injured dozens more in Dayton last Saturday. By their own rules, they not only have blood on their hands, their whole sets are covered in it. Why not? There’s as much evidence of that as there is for Trump’s complicity in El Paso.
We can’t keep playing by their rules while not holding them to the same. Taking the high road just gives you a nice view as you lose. Ceding the language and the use of words to these people is doing just that. No thanks. Unless and until leftists act in good faith, which is something they haven’t done in so long they’ll have to relearn it, we should hold their feet to the flames too. It’ll likely burn everyone, but it’s probably the only way to put out the fire.
They call half of the country “Nazi, white supremacist, racist and complain about Trump’s rhetoric.
The tragedy that comes is like Frankenstein’s monster which will turn on them and destroy them. They will be shown no mercy whatsoever.
Democrats are evil.
The left is constantly dehumanizing patriots and conditioning leftist useful continue to believe that promoting freedom and prosperity are the most vile actions a person can commit. Leftist politicians like Obama and Maxine Waters have openly called for violence against conservatives. Joaquin Castro, brother of presidential hopeful Julian, not only made sure to insult and blame Trump, he published on FaceBook the names and addresses of Trump donors.
It’s time to stop saying that leftist leaders are not responsible for the actions of their followers. Since they are all but handing out marching orders on committing murder to their supporters, yes, they should be held responsible. Unlike Trump, whose greatest crime is standing up for freedom and American values, leftist leaders are encouraging violence.
There is a war against the president to control his rhetoric. His rhetoric is killing them. His rhetoric is constantly twisted and just plain lied about.
The President has effectively escaped the media filtration system by self publishing his message. The message is getting out and is so effective that the MSM is now completely on defense, reactive.
The result is the progressive politicos have panicked into the total stupidity of irrational actions and words. In attempt to one up the president their lies grow and grow into harm to them selves.
If there are or were moderate middle of the road democrats, they must e negatively effected by the constant barrage of constantly increasing ridiclous and visious rhetoric. At some point, they will be off put whan they remember they are actually Americans
Rational people have been able to see down the road for decades. The Gun Control Act of 1968. What else happened that year to make people fall for that? Watts, Newark, etc. In the interval people have purchased millions, even tens of millions of firearms. Somehow I doubt the nation has seen a concurrent, massive increase in the number of hunters and target shooters. Rational people have been preparing for what is to come for decades.
We were pretty much on an even keel....until Obama was President. Then everything evolved....marriage, pedophilia, anti-white, etc etc.
It is an invasion!
We have an infestation of PC radical lefties.
We are seeing the opening shots by the left with the las 3 gun free zone violations instigated by the left. The only solution is ccw.
That is what they want from you and me, silence!
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