A Word to the Wise -- About Words

Townhall.com ^ | June 24, 2021 | Jackie Gingrich Cushman

[Kaslin]

For most of us, our daily interactions with others are based on common words, phrases and understandings. When someone says the sky is blue, we tend to believe that the sky is blue. When we talk with people other than our friends and family, we naturally believe that what they say is what they mean. That up is up and down is down. We believe the words we hear.

But when it comes to politics, we might be better off being more skeptical and digging deeper to understand the truth for ourselves. That's because what is said is often the opposite of reality. Let's take three current examples: the voting rights bill in the Senate (S. 1), transgender women competing in sports and the PRO Act.

Bill S. 1 in the Senate, the so-called "For the People Act," is a sweeping voting bill that would federalize elections, mandate automatic registration through the Department of Motor Vehicles and other government programs and limit the ability of states to ensure their voter rolls are correct. In addition, it would expand the use of mail-in ballots without requiring voter ID.

This bill is the opposite of what voters want, according to a Monmouth poll released this past Monday. Voters want voter ID and are skeptical of mail-in voting.

"Fully 4 in 5 Americans (80%) support requiring voters to show photo identification in order to cast a ballot. Just 18% oppose this," noted Monmouth. "Support for requiring a photo ID to vote stands at 62% among Democrats, 87% among independents, and 91% among Republicans." Regarding voting by mail, "only Democrats back making voting by mail easier to do, with 84% supporting this idea compared to just 40% of independents and 26% of Republicans." The bill does not support the will of the people, so it should be called the Voting Wrong Act.

For most of us, our daily interactions with others are based on common words, phrases and understandings. When someone says the sky is blue, we tend to believe that the sky is blue. When we talk with people other than our friends and family, we naturally believe that what they say is what they mean. That up is up and down is down. We believe the words we hear.

But when it comes to politics, we might be better off being more skeptical and digging deeper to understand the truth for ourselves. That's because what is said is often the opposite of reality. Let's take three current examples: the voting rights bill in the Senate (S. 1), transgender women competing in sports and the PRO Act.

Bill S. 1 in the Senate, the so-called "For the People Act," is a sweeping voting bill that would federalize elections, mandate automatic registration through the Department of Motor Vehicles and other government programs and limit the ability of states to ensure their voter rolls are correct. In addition, it would expand the use of mail-in ballots without requiring voter ID.

This bill is the opposite of what voters want, according to a Monmouth poll released this past Monday. Voters want voter ID and are skeptical of mail-in voting.

"Fully 4 in 5 Americans (80%) support requiring voters to show photo identification in order to cast a ballot. Just 18% oppose this," noted Monmouth. "Support for requiring a photo ID to vote stands at 62% among Democrats, 87% among independents, and 91% among Republicans." Regarding voting by mail, "only Democrats back making voting by mail easier to do, with 84% supporting this idea compared to just 40% of independents and 26% of Republicans." The bill does not support the will of the people, so it should be called the Voting Wrong Act.

This past Monday, Ryan Shea, CEO of Entrepreneur Media, wrote on Entrepreneur.com that "the PRO Act would 'upend' and 'dramatically restructure' the nearly 800,000 franchises nationwide, according to legal and industry experts. These experts also call the PRO Act a direct threat to many of the 59 million Americans who do independent contractor work -- including freelancers and solopreneurs in hundreds of professions -- and say it would also harm many of our nation's 30 million small businesses that have mutually beneficial relationships with independent contractors."

It should be called the PRO Union Anti-entrepreneur Act.

My point is that, when discussing media and politics, be wary of words; they are often used to protest and portray the opposite of what you might be expecting. Consider this a word to the wise.

[Lurkinanloomin]

When it comes to Democrats, always flip what they say 180 degrees and it will be closer to what they really mean.

[Bob434]

[[But when it comes to politics, we might be better off being more skeptical]

Not sure I can be any more skeptical than I already am.

People who are intentionally low info about politics tend to not be skeptical and don’t really care beyond following the parry their parents do. Those in the know though are very skeptical and usually already investigate for themselves. Liberals though just follow the crowd and don’t question hardly anything, and ignore the basic facts when it goes against what they blindly beleive.

As Clint Eastwood said ‘if you could reason with a liberal, there wouldn’t be any liberals’

[rockrr]

I learned my conservative catechism and embraced it early in life.

“He who controls the language controls the conversation.”

We have seen countless examples of misleading, dishonest, and propagandistic mechanisms of the left. They must know that people would run away screaming in terror if they knew what the Progs really had in mind for them. Don’t believe anything they show you and even less what they say.

[Paal Gulli]

What an idiot. In the article lecturing us about not misusing words, the author misuses “gender” and “female” (among others), using them in the corrupted form devised by the Left.