Thursday, January 13, 2011

Political Language


Follow your leader;
there will be a test, later:

will to power
            spin
                        fear
            subsidy
low intensity conflict
            moral sensibility
                        for us or against us
            cluster bombs
bringing democracy
            full spectrum dominance
                        troll
            compassionate society
collateral damage
            objective failure
                        conformity
            defense of the indefensible
ideology
            disclosure
                        hypocrisy
            family values
doublethink
            disinformation
                        laissez-faire
            capitalism
transparency
            unequivocal
                        outing
            reign of terror
solidarity
            public opinion
                        mendacity
            dying metaphors
 evasions
            absolutism
                        bipartisan
            blowback
oligopoly
            polarization
                        revenue enhancement
            unilateral
talking-head.

What’s this nonsense all about?
The freedom to be controlled.

© 2011 by Elisabeth T. Eliassen