is a love of euphemism. When people are constantly renaming something, it generally tells me they are shady and very likely liars. So, for instance, the constant goal-post moving that lies behind global warming<\/s> climate change<\/s> global climate disruption tells me that a swindle is in progress. Similarly, the BS behind rebranding torture as \u201cenhanced interrogation\u201d tells you all you need to know about the filthy liars who authorized it. Not unlike the BS by which Soviets rebranded \u201cmurder\u201d as \u201cliquidation\u201d.<\/p>\n
Sometimes, a euphemism will break down and simply become another synonym for the reality it was meant to befog. So, for instance, \u201cabortion\u201d was intended as a sort of gleaming scientific euphemism for what used to be \u201cchild murder\u201d. Now it just means \u201cchild murder\u201d again. \u201cWaterboarding\u201d was meant to sanitize the more blunt \u201csimulated drowning\u201d. Now they are having to call it \u201cdunking\u201d because \u201cwaterboarding\u201d is recognized to mean \u201csimulated drowning\u201d and \u201cdrowning\u201d means \u201ctorture\u201d not \u201cenhanced interrogation\u201d.<\/p>\n
In a similar vein, the shady utopians called Neoconservatives are busily scurrying like roaches from a kitchen light and trying to pretend that there is no such thing <\/a>as a neoconservative<\/a>. That whole big political movement of the past decade that launched a war to End Evil and remake the Middle East with the salvific power of democratic capitalism at the point of a gun? The one that spawned books <\/a>by and about self-described neoconservatives telling you all about their glorious Project for a New American Century?<\/p>\n Funny thing that. Once the whole thing led to disaster and the Gods of the Copybook Headings <\/a>with terror and slaughter returned, all of a sudden the old standard bearers for neoconservatism want you to believe they never existed. The ongoing disaster of our wars of empire. The ineptitude of the \u201cdeficits don\u2019t matter\u201d crowd. It never happened and they didn\u2019t cause it during the eight years they were running the show. Of course, they don\u2019t want you to stop supporting their ideas or making excuses for their disastrous failure. In fact, they very much want you to cheer for them as they continue to present those ideas (under some new brand name) via the newly elected Bourbon GOP, which remembers everything and learns nothing.<\/p>\n The point is, you can trust them.<\/p>\n Recommended reading: Politics and the English Language<\/a>.<\/p>\n