The dystopian state of our body politic is a cogent reminder of the existential threat posed to the democratic Republic by a significant inventory of inadequately educated, reductionist citizens. In a Nation whose aspirational mantra is “Government by and for the People,” the intrinsic characterological quality of its constituent citizens is tautologically vital to such avowed resolve.
The extant Presidential Administration attained the power and celebrity of the historic Oval Office, in large part, by demagogic, “Snake Oil “promises to the perpetually aggrieved populist and by its perpetration of distorted, highjacked terminology, readily incorporated into the sophomoirical vocabulary of the poorly informed American underbelly. It may be useful to compare and contrast the propagandistically accepted context with the legitimately intended lexicon. Three illustratively prominent distortions are: the terms “Socialism,” “Woke,” and “DEI.”
“Socialism” is not an epithet, despite its highjacked use, but, instead, a political-economic theory relative to government ownership and control of commerce and industry. There has, to our knowledge, not been any prominent American candidate for high office in the Nation who supports, or entertains that theory. Nevertheless, at the suggestion of a compassionate or empathetic governmental program, right-wing, MAGA-oriented politicians attempt to derogate them by employing the highjacked epithet, socialist.” Such responsible government programs include social security, disability, health insurance, pregnancy leave, financial support of food programs for poor schoolchildren, and general aid to the needy, which are derogated by the right-wing as being “socialist” and ipso facto objectionable.
Two additional cogent considerations might be considered relative to this bugbear. The first is that such castigated, humanistic relief is needed, availed of, and valued by all recipients, including its detractors. Another is that such programs of compassionate capitalism have empirically discouraged other exotic systems, including socialism and communism, from taking root in our Democratic Republic.
“Woke” and DEI are concepts that have a realistic and valid context in the irrefutably empirical observation that those with other than “white” colored skin observably experience more difficult in gaining admission to institutions, golf clubs, obtaining financing, and employment (viz,. “white privilege.”) The moral effort of DEI to rectify this empirically unAmerican injustice is an appropriately American aspiration for equality, in sync with the avowsed American trasditiion. The hijacking of such terminology by right-wing desecrators of the aspiration for universal National equality is shamefully unjust and a desecration of American tradition.
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