CONTROL LANGUAGE, CONTROL THOUGHT

And controlling thought is an ultimate goal of those who have taken over the Democratic Party.

From a chilling article at American Thinker by Jed Gladstein:

...words are a form of code. It is what they stand for that carries meaning, not the words themselves. Thus, to be meaningful, words must be faithful to what they describe. When words lack fidelity, they cease to convey authentic meaning and become an obstacle in the path to knowledge.

In America today, it isn't difficult to find linguistic infidelity. A few conspicuous examples suffice to illustrate the point:

• Undocumented immigrants for illegal aliens
• English plus for Spanish language education
• Economic justice for criminally confiscatory tax policies
• Tax rebates for government handouts to people who pay no taxes
• Tax loopholes for legal ways that people can try to keep their own money
• Affirmative action for legally mandated racism
• Equal employment opportunity for legally required ethnic and gender quotas
• Reproductive health services for abortion clinics

Each of these linguistic deceits is an individual affront to reason, as are thousands of others just like them. But what is more important is that they are part of a deliberate campaign to manipulate our language in order to control how Americans speak and think.

More than three hundred years after the death of Francis Bacon, another Englishman by the name of George Orwell warned about the dangers of totalitarian language manipulation. In his book 1984, Orwell described a society that controls what people think by the propagandistic use of a language called Newspeak.
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We have all become familiar, of course, with the transformation of our language by political elites who habitually invoke the name of "the people" while governing in an arbitrary and dictatorial fashion. In an excellent article for the National Taxpayers Union, Mark Schmidt cites a few examples of this phenomenon and concludes that if the Orwellian trend in American politics continues, "our language will ultimately be useless to express the ideas that form the basis of rational political discourse in a healthy republic."
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Yet, as alarming as Orwellian language manipulation is in politics and religion, it is even more insidious in the American education system. For at least thirty years, the education elite has been manipulating words, textbooks, and course curricula in order to fabricate a "narrative" that will reshape the thinking of American students in ways that the elite considers more acceptable. In the process, the education establishment has produced millions of supposedly well-educated citizens who lack a critical understanding of the significance of Western civilization in general and American history in particular.
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Horrowitz, one of the intellectual luminaries of what used to be known as the New Left, provides valuable insight into the culture war being waged against America. He correctly observes that

"It is culture that is the crucial factor in shaping the American identity, not ethnicity or race ...The left's multicultural offensive is an attack on America's national culture, not on its racial or ethnic composition. ‘Inclusion' and ‘diversity' are not the real agendas of the left ... [Their] agenda is the deconstruction of America's national identity and culture and particularly the American narrative of inclusion and freedom. The multiculturalism narrative is not about the assimilation of minorities into the crucible of American freedom, but their liberation from American ‘oppression.'" [Emphasis added.]

In describing the agenda of the radical left as the "deconstruction of America's national identity and culture," Horrowitz exposes the real purpose of the Orwellian language manipulation we are seeing in our country today. But the end game of the radical left isn't just the deconstruction of traditional America; it is the reconstruction of America according to the precepts of a radical left totalitarian ideology. In a speech entitled "The Origins of Political Correctness," Bill Lind traces how traditional economic Marxism morphed into the "cultural Marxism" that drives the radical left's attempt to transform America today. In his speech, Lind notes that economic Marxism and cultural Marxism both:

• Give special status and power to certain people at the expense of other members of society, not because they have earned it by their own merit, but because they are members of a "victim" group. In economic Marxism, it is the "workers" who are seen as victims and therefore entitled to wrest power from the "capitalists" and the "bourgeoisie." In cultural Marxism, it is blacks, Hispanics, feminists, homosexual activists, and similar "victim" groups who are entitled to take power from "white society." In both economic and cultural Marxism, anyone who objects to the totalitarian tactics used by the members of a victim group must be ridiculed, "reeducated" and punished.[7]
• Look at history through the prism of a single-factor explanation. In economic Marxism, history is seen as being determined by who owns the means of production. Cultural Marxism says that history is determined by which group - defined in terms of race, sex, etc. - has power over which other group. Thus, "Deconstruction essentially takes any text, removes all meaning from it and re-inserts any meaning desired. So we find, for example, that all of Shakespeare is about the suppression of women, or the Bible is really about race and gender."
• Rely on expropriation of wealth to empower members of the "victim" group. In Russia, for example, "... they expropriated the bourgeoisie, they took away their property.[8] In America, "when the cultural Marxists take over a university campus, they expropriate through things like quotas for admissions." In fact, "affirmative action in our whole society today is a system of expropriation."

Lind concluded his article by observing that although cultural Marxism is on the rise in America, "we don't recognize it because we call it Political Correctness ..."

He leaves his readers with this grim warning about political correctness:

"[I]t's growing and it will eventually destroy ... our freedom and our culture."

The good news?

The cultural Marxists also know that Truth is their enemy, but they do not understand that truth is more than a mere inconvenience -- something to be suppressed whenever they think it is expedient to do so. What they don't grasp is that Truth is a palpable reality, an actual force in the Universe; and it is far more powerful than the ideology of cultural Marxism. Unbeknownst to the cultural Marxists, Truth carries a unique resonance in the human heart, and regardless of how long it takes the conscious mind to receive the messages of the heart, anything less than the Truth will ultimately be perceived as dissonant and rejected by the human spirit.

Read it all here.

This is why we have to stop being cowed by fear of being labeled one of the "-ist's" when we call something what it is. No one likes to be labeled a bad person, but its not as bad as living in the dystopia they are building will be if we don't stand up, stand our ground and call them on their bullshit.