How liberals perform linguistic gymnastics in order to sway opinions
In George Orwell's book 1984, war is peace, freedom is slavery, and ignorance is strength. Similarly, liberals are famous for their Orwellian tactic of perverting language in order to shape opinions. Here are a few examples:
Their deceptive language | What they really mean and/or truth |
Our democracy | Our party's way. The democrat party's Marxist agenda |
Women's March | Democrat women's anti-Trump march, anti-white, anti-Elon Musk, anti-GOP, etc. |
People's March | Democrats' anti-Trump march |
Climate denier | Assumes that they are right, the debate is over, and The Science™ is settled |
Election denier | Assumes that they are right, there was no election fraud |
We are guided by The Science™ | We are guided by politics, and the ignoring of science |
Climate action | The word 'action' falsely implies that humans can actually affect earth's climate |
Climate change, global weirding | When we had record cold winters, the term 'global warming' became a publicity nightmare. |
Climate crisis | Pure hysteria |
Progressive | Repressive, regressive |
Diversity, inclusion, equity | Discrimination over merit, based on skin pigmentation (usually anti-Caucasian and anti-Asian), gender (anti-men), sexual orientation (anti-straight), etc. |
Empowering | Supporting leftists who want to discriminate or have other bad intentions |
Safe Neighborhoods & Schools Act | Legal to shoplift up to $950 in merchandise. |
Inclusive | Socialism, exclusive, dividing people into categories, anti-conservative, anti-Republican, anti-Trump |
Equity | Discrimination based on skin pigmentation, socialism |
Unity | Shut up and let us democrats get what we want |
Transformative | The radical leftist agenda |
Unhinged, divisive, causing chaos, mentally unstable, etc. | Smears that they use to describe anyone who disagrees with their views, policies, etc |
Immigrants | Illegal immigrants |
Anti-fascist | Pro-fascist |
Anti-racist | Anti-white |
Anti-masker | Smear term. Falsely assumes that masks actually work to stop respiratory viruses. |
Anti-Vaxxer | Smear term. Falsely assumes that getting vaccinated is always the right decision. Also used to falsely smear pro-choice people as anti-vax. |
Build back better | Burn the system down, roll out socialism |
Fundamentally change America | Destroy America |
Unity over division | Falsely casts Republicans as divisive and democrats as unifiers. "Unity" to them conveniently means everyone surrendering to their radical plans. |
Truth over lies | War is peace, freedom is slavery, ignorance is strength. |
A nation divided | Democrats create division, then accuse Republicans of doing the dividing. |
Disinformation, Misinformation, Malinformation | Facts or opinions that contradict their lies and propaganda. False pretense for censorship. |
Medical misinformation | Any truthful facts, studies, or opinions that contradict those of the media and medical establishment regarding masks, lockdowns, asymptomatic spread, etc. |
Bullying | Having differing opinions, presenting inconvenient facts. A false pretext for censorship. |
Misguided | Free-thinking people on the right who have found truth |
Conspiracy theory | Smear term for any account of an event or circumstance that they disagree with |
Disinformation Governance Board | Orwellian "Ministry of Truth" to protect Democrats from truthful information that gets out. The snake watching over the hen house. |
Debunked | Smear term for anything that they disagree with. Certainly not proven false, as the word might suggest. |
Comprehensive | Meaningless gibberish that sounds good |
Has bipartisan support | The only Republican support comes from RINO's like Mitt Romney, Liz Cheney, and Lisa Murkowski. |
Historic | A shield of protection for Ketanji Brown Jackson. Any senator who votes NO to her confirmation is ruining history and is a 'racist'. |
Employment Development Department | Welfare program |
Uncle Tom | Any black who doesn't fall in line with the democrats |
Troll | Someone on the Internet with conservative opinions or inconvenient facts |
Believe women | Guilty until proven innocent (unless a democrat is accused) |
Gun reform | Repeal the 2nd Amendment through incremental bans |
Nazi, dictator, fascist, etc | Names they call anyone who disagrees with them |
Treason, Russian asset | Conservative spreading inconvenient facts or differing opinions |
Hate speech | Facts, or simply conservative speech that they disagree with and want to censor |
Promote healthy discourse, positive speech, safe | Censorship of conservative speech |
Content moderation | Censorship |
Online harrassment | A leftist being presented with inconvenient facts, differing opinions |
Disinformation and the Erosion of Democracy Conference | Democrat Marxists pushing for less democracy through increased censorship of conservatives |
White supremacist, white nationalist | Smear of any Republican, or white person defending businesses from being vandalized and burnt down by BLM rioters. |
Radicalized | Smear term for conservatives | Vigilante | Someone who honorably and lawfully defends businesses from ANTIFA/BLM arsonists/anarchists | Living unsheltered, unhoused resident | Vagrant, homeless |
Xenophobic, Islamophobic | No borders, no country |
Me Too Movement | The democrat party |
The soul of our nation is at stake | The survival of the democrat party is at stake |
Protesters, mostly peaceful protesters | Term used to downplay Democrats, ANTIFA, and/or BLM behaving badly, arson, rioting, vandalising, looting, assaulting, killing |
Action civics, civic engagement, project-based civics, Civics Learning Act of 2021 | Leftist brownshirts protesting, intimidating, and rioting |
Teacher, professor | Groomer, indoctrinator |
Journalist | DNC activist |
Book burning | Smear term comparison to describe conservatives upholding basic civil liberties by removing critical race theory books from school libraries |
Rioters, mob, white supremacists | An attempt to smear all conservatives who protest |
Capitol Hill insurrection | Vastly peaceful Republican protest, nobody has ever been charged with insurrection |
Left-leaning | Rioters, vandals, looters, ANTIFA, BLM |
People of color | Pandering, dog-whistle term to generate votes. We have no idea how this term is not racist, but 'colored people' is racist. |
Alt-right, far-right, extremist | Smear of any middle-of-the-road Republicans or Trump supporters who don't adhere to Democrat groupthink |
Assault weapon (AR-15) | A name that scares liberals, yet hunting rifles are more powerful |
Victims | Anarchist thugs who attacked Kyle Rittenhouse |
Unarmed | Armed with a knife |
Across state lines | Attempt to defame Kyle Rittenhouse as having committed some sort of 'crime' |
Sedition, abuse of power, obstruction of congress | Show me the man (Trump) and I'll show you the crime |
Get out the vote, Rock the vote | People who aren't motivated to vote usually vote (D). People who push these slogans are trying to get more (D) votes. |
Back on the world stage | Globalism, socialism, smearing Trump for being a nationalist, solidarity with world leftists like Angela Merkel, Emmanuel Macron, and Justin Trudeau. |
Trump is coddling dictators | Trump is trying to negotiate peace |
Trump's tax cuts benefit the wealthy | Trump's tax cuts benefit those who pay the most in taxes |
The border challenge | The border crisis |
Reimagine policing, reimagine public safety, redirect funding, police accountability | Defund the police, race-mongering |
Return to Jim Crow | The GOP making voting more secure to help prevent voter fraud |
Expand voter access | Make it easier to vote without an ID -- AKA encourage fraud |
Voter suppression | Election security measures to prevent fraud |
The 'sanctity' of [the FBI, voting process, etc] | An attempt to quash any search for criminality, corruption, etc. The "How dare you" truth supresson technique. |
For the People Act, Voting Rights Bill, Freedom to Vote Act | Strip states of their ability to implement basic election integrity safeguards, such as requiring an ID. Preserve voting system deficiency. |
Existential threat | An actual democrat conspiracy theory |
Fact | Democrat opinion or falsehood |
Fact-check | Truth suppression by a left-wing propaganda outlet, opinion |
Non-partisan | Partisan |
Conservative, Jennifer Rubin | Liberal, Jennifer Rubin |
Pro-choice | Babies don't get to choose |
Holiday crash, deadly crash, Waukesha tragedy | Christmas parade massacre perpetrated by a person of color |
Melee | A word to lessen a mass murder perpetrated by a person of color |
Let's Go Brandon 'right-wing slur', and 'vulgar insult' | But it's perfectly OK for them to insult Trump |
Domestic terrorist | Parent voicing opposition to critical race theory being taught in school, Canadian protester. |
She/her | He/him |
Homophobic "Don't Say Gay" bill | Parental rights bill, protecting kindergarten children from transgenderism indictrination |
Democrat Oversight Committee | Witchhunt army and smear factory |
FBI investigation, search | Raid |
Inflation Reduction Act | Inflation Exacerbation Act |
Not a recession | Recession |
Classified | Unclassified, not classified |
Espionage | Holding on to unclassified/not classified documents |