Wordsmiths And The Delusional

[Joanne98]

For OpEdNews: Michael Roberts - Writer

These days the art of political spin includes the technique of creating and disseminating carefully chosen words and phrases. By themselves they appear harmless but their subliminal message is dangerous and sinister. Trouble is ordinary Americans and the unsophisticated are consistently duped and brainwashed by these clever catch phrases, slogans and buzzwords. This skill is not the domain of ordinary mortals and is sometimes like linguistic sorcery.

Normally reserved for the wizards of Madison Avenue where advertising mavens and their acolytes churn out the most snazzy catching words and phrases these doctors of spin are the true modern masters of this art. In the end they string together words and phrases that reflect America's ultra-conservative bent. Their work finds eager customers in the functional delusional and those who believe that politics in 2010 is a poison in America that they are chosen to eradicate.

When the nascent Tea Party Movement shouted that "I Want My Country Back" like some snotty-nosed pre-teen brat crying for a swiped lollypop, the immediate suggestion was that somehow a group of people had taken America away from this tiny group of mostly white, male and Republican "movement" that feel that America belong s only to them. It never dawned on these rutting pseudo-patriots that America is fast becoming a multi-racial, multi-cultural nation that will take this great country into another direction.

Maybe it never dawned on these "Tea Wind-Baggers" that uttering mankind's most atavistic proclamation of rabid selfishness "I Want" would so aptly describe the group and its patrons. From the earliest age of mankind what "I Want" superseded "What I Need." The "I" is individualistic, self-serving, selfish and wholly without sensitivity for the "Us" the "We" as in "We The People" the eloquent phrasing of America's Founding Fathers who saw the unselfishness of "We as a nation." That of course, is lost on both the Tea Partiers and their supporters.

Also, the "I Want My Country Back" is also laced with racism. When elements of the Republican Party utter this statement that is simultaneously echoed by its bastard child the underlying inference is that Barack Obama (a Black man) has to give the country back to this uber-delusional clique of (white males) who believe fervently that America is their choice piece of real estate.

http://www.opednews.com/articles/Wordsmiths-And-The-Delusio-by-Michael-Roberts-100522-830.html

[flamin lib]

1. Words have power and the Republicans are damn good at using them.

For them, everything can be boiled down to a bumper sticker.

No new taxes.

Just say no.

It's your money.

Just cut spending.

Unfortunately, a real answer to the multitude of slings and arrows assailing us takes more than a bumper sticker.

[Festivito]

2. The wordsmithing further separates us from information already denied us.

I see it as a symptom of the problem that stems from being alienated from our government and governance.