Maggie's Farm

Along the same topic of pomo multiculti pc, the USA Dep't of Homeland Security has writ itself a memo (yer tax dollars at work & play):

(snip frm Bret Stephens' WSJ article -- bolding mine)

''In its most eye-catching recommendation (which goes strangely unmentioned in an Associated Press story about the memo), the DHS authors explain their preference for the word "progress" over "liberty."

"The struggle is for 'progress,' over which no nation has a monopoly," reads the memo. "The experts we consulted debated the word 'liberty,' but rejected it because many around the world would discount the term as a buzzword for American hegemony. But all people want to support 'progress,' which emphasizes that there is a path for building strong families and prosperity among the current dislocations of globalization and change. And progress is precisely what the terrorists oppose through their violent tactics and through their efforts to impose a totalitarian world view."

It seems to have escaped the authors' notice that the most formidable totalitarian movement of the 20th century – communism – was, by its own lights, "progressive." It seems to have escaped their notice that the essence of a totalitarian system is the denial of liberty (often in the name of progress). It seems to have escaped their notice that "progress" is a word that signifies nothing. Exactly what is one progressing to?''

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121184599077421311.html?mod=todays_columnists

(more - bolding mine))

''And while it is not a statement of official policy, it neatly captures the sophisticated government thinking about its rhetorical strategies for what used to be called the "*Global War on Terror*."

Now, thanks to the DHS brain trust, we are offered a "*Global Struggle for Security and Progress*." Perhaps with further moral and intellectual refinement, we can someday embark on a *General Effort Against Negativity and Ungoodness*.

In "1984," George Orwell famously created Newspeak, "the only language in the world whose vocabulary gets smaller every year." How things haven't changed. The Homeland Security memo begins by declaring that "Words matter," whereupon it proceeds to suggest that *some words matter so much it's best not to use them at all*. Instead, the memo proposes a "strategic terminology" to dictate the utterances of public officials regarding the so-called Global Struggle.''

the tragedy is, you could never explain it to her. How far off the right path she has strayed, how little she knows it.

John Kerry said something similar, not long after he'd lost the election -- the topic was the press, specifically the right wing press, and he said that there ought to be some sort of governing authority that could control this "problem" -- some sort of "board of professionals" who "understand the industry".

Hopeless -- those people are just flat hopeless. Ignorant of history, ignorant of human nature, and as a result smiley-face proto-fascists all the way.