How Progressives Twist Words to Hide What They’re Doing

[Revmitchell]

Throughout history, language has been used to manipulate, to help, to inspire and to control. In the political arena, language and communication are crucial to shaping a message and winning elections.

In the 20th and 21st centuries, we’ve seen the Left hijack and manipulate language to win their battles. Saul Alinsky dedicated an entire chapter in his “Rules for Radicals” to communication. He wrote about how communication is the most important tool a radical activist must possess to be successful.

“It does not matter what you know about anything if you cannot communicate to your people,” Alinsky wrote.

Alinsky taught his followers to focus on human experiences and how to twist words to achieve that focus.


“In mass organization, you can’t go outside of people’s actual experience. I’ve been asked, for example, why I never talk to a Catholic priest or a Protestant minister or a rabbi in terms of the Judeo-Christian ethic or the Ten Commandments or the Sermon on the Mount. I never talk in those terms. Instead I approach them on the basis of their own self-interest, the welfare of their Church, even its physical property,” Alinsky wrote. “Communication on a general basis without being fractured into specifics of experience becomes rhetoric and it carries a very limited meaning.”

Organizers on the Left have mastered the skill not only of communication but of manipulating language and thoughts to communicate a message.

“Is this manipulation? Certainly, just as a teacher manipulates, and no less, even a Socrates,” Alinsky wrote.

There are a few powerful words the Left has distorted in recent decades which have not only changed the political landscape but, more importantly, the culture.

Moving into the 20th century, the true definition of liberalism was hijacked by progressives. Hillsdale College Professor of the American Constitution Ronald Pestritto explains how the Left manipulated the term liberal for political purposes in his book “American Progressivism.”


Using the term liberal, progressives like Franklin Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson were able to fundamentally change the role of government in American society by expanding it under the guise that more regulation meant more freedom. The opposite was true, and they knew it.

The same can be said today. Modernday liberals claim to be open to freedom of expression and ideas, but in practice, they are not. Liberals love speech zones, regulation, Big Government and snuffing out dissent.

http://www.thefederalistpapers.org/us/how-progressives-twist-words-to-hide-what-theyre-doing

 

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A former intelligence analyst, Stella Morabito, who grew up in a left-wing family and calls herself a “realist,” is speaking out about mass manipulation, political correctness and the transgender agenda.

Her writings at The Federalist got the attention of Rush Limbaugh back in June when he seemed fascinated by her piece on mass delusion. A subsequentrelated piece is here.

In this exclusive video interview with the Daily Caller News Foundation, she details how the left uses mass manipulation techniques to confuse Americans and grab power. She condemns conservatives for not even realizing the behavior modification techniques being employed in the political square, such as those encouraged by liberals such as Cass Sunstein, who wrote the book “Nudge” or George Lakoff.

It was a project of cultural Marxists to capture the mediating institutions in our culture for ideological gain – the media, Hollywood, pop culture, academia and more. “If you push an agenda to centralize power, you need mass ignorance and effective propaganda.”

Continue . . . http://dailycaller.com/2015/10/10/f...s-a-manipulative-tool-for-centralizing-power/

 

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