Author: Jim Guirard
Source: TrueSpeak.org
Lee Cary's highly detailed November 15,
2009 article -- "The AT Readers' Complete Lexicon of Political
Speech" -- describes quite accurately the distorted and deceptive
meanings that the radical Left is routinely giving to a long list of
common words and phrases in our political discourse.
But even this 70-point expose' covers
only one important element -- the already existing words element
-- of the global "war of words" which is being
waged against those of us who share the fundamental truth-in-language
concerns cited by Confucius 2400 years ago. When asked what would be
his first priority if he were placed in charge of the Government, the
great Chinese thinker replied:
"It would certainly be to correct
language. If language is not correct then what is said is not what is
meant. If what is said is not what is meant, then what ought to be done
remains undone.. If this remains undone, then morals and acts deteriorate.
If morals and acts deteriorate, justice will go astray. If justice goes
astray, the people will stand about in helpless confusion. Hence, there
must be no arbitrariness in what is said. This matters above everything."
Surely, Lee Cary's list will provide
much grist for such corrections -- if concerned word warriors will actually
get busy fighting for the truthful language we need so badly. But what
about the equally urgent need for an arsenal of new words, labels, acronyms and
frames of reference which might help to counterbalance the radical Left's
cynical manipulation of so many existing ones?
Inventing new semantic weapons
Over the past several years, TrueSpeak.org
articles in various venues have recommended some two dozen such new words,
phrases and acronyms for inclusion in the political lexicon. These are coined
and engineered terms which cover several different but overlapping disciplines
-- political, military, environmental, economic, religious, ideological, sociological,
egotistical and more.
Although many of these new semantic tools are
1. Branch Carbonian Cult -- new
name for the Gore-inspired -- and now Obama-led -- pseudo-religious
cult based on the false premise that man-made CO2 is the primary cause
of Global Warming. (For a complete explanation, see http://www.americanthinker.
2. Scamalot -- an invidious comparison
to the purportedly noble and heroic "Camelot" Era of John and
Jackie Kennedy -- and a fitting legacy label for the ignoble and scam-filled,
"Audacity of Hype” Era of Barack and Michelle Obama. (Do these
people scam just a little, or do they Scamalot?)
3. Communoid -- communist-like
and, in the case of many so-called "former" communists, perhaps
still-communist or single-party Socialist.
4. CommieCzar -- shorthand for
a self-declared Communist (or communoid) "President for Life"
such as Hugo Chavez of Venezuela -- or for an Obama-appointed regulatory "Czar"
such as Van Jones who is, in fact, a communist.
5. Bolshivarian Revolution --
correct new name (La Revolucion Chavista-Bolshevista in Spanish)
for Hugo Chavez' so-called "Bolivarian Revolution." (Simon
Bolivar was a nationalist, not a Chavista Communist.)
6. Cubazuela -- new name for today's
Cuba-like, fascist-Left former South American democracy of Venezuela
7. Cubazuelan Empire -- new name
for the narco-communoid, "Socialism or Death" Latin American
empire of Cuba, Cubazuela, Cubaragua, Bolivia and Equador -- and with
Honduras still in danger of being sucked in, as well
8. OutForcing -- forcing jobs
out of America by over-taxation, over-regulation, NIMBY factors, no
tort law reform, less energy at higher prices
9. DownForcing -- the current Obama-Pelosi-Reid
policy forcing down (and even out) most major domestic sources of energy
supply
10. Eeekology -- scare-tactics
environmentalism of the "sky is falling" Branch Carbonian
Cult variety
11. Eeekonomics -- scare-tactics
economic news and doomsday propaganda about the American economy, usually
calling for "Progressive" (long the radical Left's codeword
for Socialist) solutions
12. Exsurgents -- violent and terroristic
agitators coming from outside the country or the region, while "insurgents"
come from inside
13. Fu'ther-mucking Progressives
-- "mucking" things up even fu'ther than they already are,
and making everything "Progressively" WORSE in the process
14. GreenOuts -- expected electricity
"blackouts" and "brownouts" caused by the Branch
Carbonian Cult's "Green" policies re both environment and energy
15. Great LEAHP Backward -- inevitable
result of the Obama-Pelosi-Reid "Progressive" job-killing
policies of Less Energy At Higher Prices (LEAHP)
15. Gulag Guevara -- Cuba's
brutal and highly secretive "Che" Guevara-designed prison
system, of which this Argentine psychopath was the first de facto
warden, torturer and coup de gras executioner
16. OPRAH Land -- acronym label
for the "Obama-Pelosi-Reid And Hillary" Administration now
in power in the Congress, the White House, the Washington bureaucracy
and major parts of the Economy, as well
17. Pairriage -- new word for
so-called "same sex marriage" and "same sex unions,"
based on the non-pejorative and merely descriptive word "pair"
-- meaning two of a kind or two of the same, and avoiding any version
whatever of the word "marriage"
18. POOTUS -- Obama-related acronym
for "Proponent of Over-Taxing US," patterned after the Bush
related label POTUS (President of the United States)
19. ProgSoc -- an Orwellian "EngSoc"-style
label for the "Progressive Socialist" ideology championed by
Barack Obama and his radical-Left entourage
20. Properganda -- spreading of
selective but objectively truthful information, as contrasted
to the presumed falsity and deception of "propaganda"
21. Quondam Fi -- Latin antonym
for the US Marine Corps' "Semper Fi" (Always Faithful) slogan
and meaning "Formerly Faithful" or "No Longer Faithful"
-- as in the case of Rep. John Murtha
22. Diplunacy -- international
diplomacy of a foolish, wasteful, bureaucratic or even lunatic
quality, typical of the endlessly perverse United Nations
23. "AWOL"
(new political, anti-war meaning) -- those who are Always Weak On Liberty,
as opposed to the traditional military meaning of "Absent With-Out
Leave"
[Post-publication alternative: AAWOL
– Almost Always Weak On Liberty]
24. "ACE" (new political,
anti-war meaning) -- those traitorous types who are giving "Aid
and Comfort to the Enemy," as opposed to an "ACE" fighter
pilot or a best-of-the-best competitor or contestant
25. “AIDS" (new socio-economic meaning) -- which is the geo-political acronym for Aggravating, Insufferable, Debilitating Socialism (a.k.a., "Progressivism")
While some of these mostly “politically
incorrect’ words will be more relevant and useful than others, all
of them should be evaluated and creatively used – particularly in
light of the above quotation from Confucius and in keeping with very
similar words of wisdom from the late, great US Senator Daniel Patrick
Moynihan.
It was Moynihan and Dr. Fred Charles
Ikle, President Reagan's Under-Secretary of Defense for Policy, who
defined and worried greatly about the Cold War problem of "semantic
infiltration" (and its Soviet-inspired manipulation of language)
as follows:
“Simply put, semantic infiltration
is the process whereby we come to adopt the language of our adversaries
in describing political reality. The most totalitarian regimes in the
world would call themselves ‘liberation movements.’ It is perfectly
predictable that they should misuse words to conceal their real nature.
But must we aid them in that effort by repeating those words? Worse,
do we begin to influence our own perceptions by using them?”
In today's context, both the "arbitrariness"
about which Confucius was so concerned and the "infiltration"
and self-deceptive parroting about which Moynihan and Ikle worried greatly
should greatly worry us, as well.
Notice, please, how very similar today's
Obaman language of "Black Liberation Theology" and "Progressive
Movements" and "Social Justice" is to Fidel Castro's and
Hugo Chavez' anti-American, anti-Capitalist and "Group Rights"
language of what they proudly call "21st Century Socialism"
-- which is the euphemistic Communist name for Egalitarian Poverty and
Repression Forever.
JIM GUIRARD -- TrueSpeak.org 703-768-0957 Justcauses@aol.com