(a) I could and…
(b)I wanted to because I thought some here would be interested.
…which from its first paragraph is little more than a demonstration of superficiality:
If you found the article to be totally without merit why on earth are you wasting your precious time posting replies to it?
I only bother to comment, because this posting has brought out another pointless battle over newspeak terminology…
But you have posted several replies to this thread.
If it annoys you why don't you just ignore it?
You seem to be bothered by what you term 'newspeak' and 'popspeak'.
Perhaps you should confine your communications to Latin which as a dead language is ossified and unchanging.
Because the imprecise, made up word, that you seem to think enhances our living language, seems always to stir a frenetic bout of name calling among people who in each case have at least some Conservative principles, but do not agree on a particular agenda, or share the same priorities.
To post something, which does not really enlighten, but very definitely stirs resentments among those whom one would like to see working together, where they do have common beliefs, is counter-productive.
While I, personally, am a straight Conservative, with no modifier required or desired, I am not just finding fault with those more moderate Conservatives, who prefer a modifier, or seek a special niche. I would also fault some of my fellow Conservatives, who go over-board in their denunciations of more moderate, recent recruits to that more moderate stance from an originally "liberal" or leftist position. Obviously, none of us can expect to win many battles carrying around a purge list, of those we find less than perfect.
There are not many areas where we can learn from our common foe. But this is surely one. Over and over again, in the mess they made of the 20th Century, different factions on the Left combined at the right moment to achieve a common objective. Oftentimes those so combining hated one another before the combination; oftentimes, they hated one another, again, after the victory. But they understood when it was tactically wise to combine forces.
William Flax Return Of The Gods Web Site