| A Democracy Dictionary; Bush Victory, Bush Treason; Must-Add
Dictionary Terms
by Rob Kall opednews.com
This is the third in an occasional series of
articles suggesting new, politically useful words and phrases.
Previous articles are listed at the end of this one.
Move over William Safire. You're not the only one who can talk
language. Ambrose Bierce, close to a century ago, created the Devil's
Dictionary. For example, his definitions include:
- CONSERVATIVE, n. A statesman who is
enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal, who
wishes to replace them with others.
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- HISTORY, n. An account mostly false, of
events mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers mostly
knaves, and soldiers mostly fools.
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- POLITICS, n. A strife of interests
masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs
for private advantage.
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- POLITICIAN, n. An eel in the fundamental
mud upon which the superstructure of organized society is reared. When
we wriggles he mistakes the agitation of his tail for the trembling of
the edifice. As compared with the statesman, he suffers the
disadvantage of being alive.
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But long before Bierce, others took aspects of history and turned them
into terms. For example, A Pyrrhic victory is one in which you win a
battle that costs you the war. It was named after Pyrrhus, a Greek leader
who expended so many resources to win a battle that his forces were too
weakened, and it led to their losing the war.
And so, with history and precedent supporting me, I embark on a journey
of politico-linguistic coinage, Chomsky, forgive me.
A Bush victory n., is one in which you win a war,
then throw away or waste the victory, or turn it into a bigger loss by
stupidity or bad leadership. This is a phrase that deserves to be
entered into the dictionaries and used as a cautionary term to prevent
future Bush victories from occurring-- in world politics, in business, in
personal fortunes. The father's stupid leadership led to the coining of
the term in 1991. The son's moronic, lying leadership and the advice of
his twisted, corrupt radical right advisors cemented the term into the
lexicon.
And here's another one to start to work, another meme-- a concept
intended to work its way through the idea matrix like a virus, so it
bubbles into mass consciousness, iterating and reiterating itself in
different lights, different perspectives-- from the economy and ecology to
the Bush Victory Iraqi democratic debacle, to the California elections to
Enron and the 2003 Blackout, to the florida election theft and the supreme
court whore sellout of the 2000 Election.
Bush treason n. is simple-- the selling out of the
country by a person in power who claims to be acting on behalf of the good
of the country. Ann Coulter calls liberals treasonous. This is a joke. The
worst traitors in American history are in the Whitehouse, selling it off
to the biggest, most dangerous enemy our country has ever faced, the
international megacorporations and the billionaires who run them.
George Bush is a front man for the real perpetrators of the treason I
speak of. It is obvious that he is incapable of articulately or
intelligently responding to a tough, honest media. But that problem was
solved three ways--
-by beating down the majormedia so they would be too afraid to confront
this traitor of a president,
-by making him less available than previous presidents, and
-by structuring media contact so there is no real opportunity for the
media to get answers to tough questions.
Of course, the job Bush and his handlers have done on the media, an
essential system within any healthy democracy, is another example of Bush
Treason. Practically speaking, we could just as well use the term,
right-wing treason, and that may be another useful addition to a
"democracy dictionary."
In my next op-ed, I'll explore the new term "Fox fair and
balanced," which actually, is based on the same principles as the
Bush Victory. it ain't what it claims to be.
Rob
Kall rob@opednews.com
is publisher of progressive news and opinion website www.opednews.com
and organizer of cutting edge meetings that bring together world leaders,
such as the Winter Brain Meeting
and the StoryCon
Summit Meeting on the Art, Science and Application of Story. He is also an
avid collector of dictionaries and related reference works, with his 500
piece collection including books dating back to the 1500's. His quotationscentral.com
offers over 1000 choice quotations. This
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