Linda Gommel – Sloppy thinking, resulting in sloppy speech and muddled ideas, pervades the right’s attempts to communicate clearly. The sloppiness of our conservative commentariat has resulted in severe damage to our side in the battle of ideas being fought in the ongoing war for our culture.
An example: for years, even legendary communicator Rush Limbaugh and others allowed the left to get by with conflating terms like “immigration” and “illegal immigration”, and I would find myself shouting at the radio as we on the Right were smeared as haters, bigots, and anti-immigrant hypernationalists. Only in very recent times has our side finally clarified the difference and refuted the labels, but the damage is done.
The same sort of thing has happened with the use of the term “socialism.” That word is bandied about with little regard for its true meaning. Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez are socialists, it is said, as they push the Green New Deal. The entire Left is sidling up to socialism and turning away from capitalism, appealing to a base of youth victimized by the failure to educate and by the success of leftist indoctrination. The word is intentionally left fuzzy and ill-defined in order to cause confusion. Continue reading
In response to the renewed calls to prevent Trump’s second term in office, Antifa have launched a “Red Army” – armed with guns and funded by Soros.
Charles Hugh Smith – So my little-visited Wikipedia entry was minding its own business, not bothering anyone, until I dared to criticize the Clinton Foundation. The next day, my Wikipedia entry was taken out and shot by a mysterious “editor.” It was just coincidence, right, that my Wikipedia entry had been available for years without offending anyone, and then suddenly it’s deleted the day after I dared to criticize the Clinton Foundation.