Thursday, September 05, 2013

Syria, Obama, and Democrat Double-Speak

By Douglas V. Gibbs

I have a saying regarding the Democrat Party.  What is the answer to the question?  Any question.  It doesn't matter what the question is.  If it is posed to a member of the Democrat Party, what is the answer to the question?

Whatever benefits the Democrat Party the most. . . even if it is an obvious contradiction.

In the minds of the liberal leftist progressives, love is hate, war is peace, and freedom is slavery.  The slavery of entitlements is freedom, getting what you can (and more) out of the treasury in government handouts is fairness, and pursuing opportunity to make a better life for yourself is greedy.  It is wrong to force your beliefs upon others, unless that belief fits the leftist agenda, then it must be embedded in the school curriculum and any opposition to such a belief must be made criminal.  If the belief is elevated to the point that it is considered a civil right, the law will be used to silence all opposition, and even refusing to bake a cake or refusing to go against your religious beliefs becomes a criminal offense.  Voter fraud is fairness, and voter ID is racism.  Inanimate objects kill people, Muslim terrorism is workplace violence, TEA Party rallies are domestic terrorism, and Hispanics are suddenly white racists if the victim is black, but black on white crime is simply boys being boys.  An open border is security, and following immigration laws is criminal, and may result in a State being taken to court for daring to do so.

Troops on the ground in a war is not troops on the ground at all, unless the Commander in Chief is a Republican, then it is an illegal war.  George W. Bush didn't check with Congress before going to Iraq, even though he did, but Obama doesn't have to, and even though he decided to, he can go to war regardless of the vote from Congress.  When the leader of the party, in this case the President of the United States, sets a red line, he really didn't.  The world did.  And when President Barack Obama's credibility is on the line, it really isn't - the credibility of the republicans in Congress is.

George Orwell's society in his book, 1984, is ruled over by a government not unlike the utopia the democrats are trying to force on America through manipulation, tactics akin to methods taught by such radicals as Saul Alinsky and Josef Stalin, and a whole lot of doublespeak.

If one can control the language, the opposition will no longer be able to fight back.

One of the challenges I hear from conservatives and patriot groups is that we have to repackage our ideology because the language we use has been turned into a negative.  Liberty is now a racist term, and "TEA Party" is considered anti-government (and therefore to the leftists, anti-American).  If we celebrate America, we are celebrating slavery, and if we push for slavery through dependency upon government (food stamps, welfare) we are promoting freedom and the American Way.

It is enough to make someone's head spin.

I, for one, refuse to fall for the doublespeak, or play along with the propaganda.  I say things as they are and ignore the liberal left attacks.

For those of you not sure about what doublespeak is, it is language that deliberately disguises, distorts, or reverses the meaning of words, and if used often enough, and long enough, can actually change the public opinion regarding things that were previously acceptable, or not acceptable.  An increase in taxes is now an investment, as is government spending.  Illegal aliens are undocumented immigrants, and patriotism is now anti-government.  War used to be hell, but now with Syria it is humanitarian, and in Libya it was a kinetic military action.

Doublespeak allows the government to lie to you, and in return you accept it as a new normal, a truth even though it is a lie, and if used effectively, the doublespeak can even get you to agree with what you disagreed with before.

One wonders where all of the anti-war activists that shouted at President George W. Bush at every turn have gone off to, now that the Nobel Peace Prize winner is prepared to launch yet another non-war war, with or without the blessing of Congress - something that is constitutionally necessary, according to the democrats, when a republican is in office.

The Democrats are trying to rush through the vote this week for their planned war in Syria before the opposition has a chance to mount a complaint, doing as they do with everything they write, filling the resolution with loopholes and open-ended opportunities that can be manipulated at the discretion of the democrats.  Like with Obamacare, where Barry promised you could keep your own doctor, and insurance rates wouldn't go up, the statement he made about no boots being on the ground in Syria is a lie, like it was in Libya and Tunisia.  In fact, according to the democrat's own war resolution, though boots on the ground are not allowed "for combat operations," if the democrats decide that 75,000 troops are needed to secure Syria's chemical weapons facilities, that would be fine, because the democrats will use their doublespeak once gain, explaining, "the troops are not needed for combat operations.  They are needed to secure the facilities."
The real problem goes beyond the democrats, however.  With the obvious hypocrisy by the democrats slapping everyone in the face, the republicans refuse to mount any form of opposition.  They refuse to say, "The President is wrong."  They refuse to say or do anything that resembles the words or actions of an opposition party.  They don't point out ridiculousnous, like how a democrat (I heard this on the radio, so I don't remember the name of the Congresswoman) said she was against going into Syria, but she would vote in favor of the resolution in order to support Obama.

All hail liberal leftists collectivism!

What about her principles?  Is Obama king?  Is everything he does so golden to the democrats that even when it is wrong, it is right?

Rhetorical questions.  You know the answer, and the answer is frightening.

The ultimate doublespeak: Obama is always right, even when he is wrong.

In reality, he wants the Middle East to erupt into flames.  Like former Iranian leader Ahmadinejad, Obama wants the Middle East engulfed in chaos.  Along Rahm Emanuel's thinking, it is amazing what the democrats will be able to do with a good international crisis in place.

Don't forget, the democrats love crisis, and they don't dare let a good crisis go to waste.

You never let a serious crisis go to waste. And what I mean by that it's an opportunity to do things you think you could not do before. - Rahm Emanuel, former Obama advisor

-- Political Pistachio Conservative News and Commentary



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