NeoNote — Brand D
❝❝Are you going to insist that Democrats are Democratic again?NeoNotes are the selected comments that I made on other boards, in email, or in response to articles where I could not respond directly.
Actually given the actions of the Democrat party leadership over the last century or so, Democratic is the last thing they should be called. It's always been about establishing an elite outside of the laws and rules that apply to everyone else. Often with veto power over the words and actions of others.
One recent example are the superdelegates. That is about as anti-democratic as you can get.
Just Newspeak in action. Again.
And you clearly didn't get my reference to Newspeak.
It's a brand name. It's no more democratic than Acme Company is "the best there is." Progressives and Democrats have a long undeniable history of coopting words into something that means the exact opposite. "Liberal" used to mean what we Americans call "libertarian" today.
And there we go. That's Democrat Tactic #45, Alinsky #13, and PeePeeTape #4.
Shift the focus away from the argument and towards the person who made the argument.
As I said, "with veto power over the words and actions of others."
Tell you what. I'll call them Brand D. That way you can ever so conveniently ignore the attempts to usurp language without being too obvious about it.
Do you really think you have the power to dictate my actions or words?
Do you really think that there is one person reading this site that will have any doubt whatsoever just which group I mean?
Brand D it is then.❞❞
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Newspeak
Tuesday - 25Apr2017 Filed in: Quotes & Thinkums
““propagandistic language marked by euphemism, circumlocution, and the inversion of customary meanings””
— Merriam-Webster
““Newspeak is the language of Oceania, a fictional totalitarian state ruled by the Party, who created the language to meet the ideological requirements of English Socialism (Ingsoc).In George Orwell's world of Nineteen Eighty-Four, Newspeak is a controlled language, of restricted grammar and limited vocabulary, a linguistic design meant to limit the freedom of thought—personal identity, self-expression, free will—that ideologically threatens the régime of Big Brother and the Party, who thus criminalised such concepts as thoughtcrime, contradictions of Ingsoc orthodoxy.””
— Wikipedia