The left always tells you what it fears the most. Not content with dominating the media and education, the two organs that generate the linguistic framing of politics in our society, the left wants to delegitimize political terms that reflect realities it would rather avoid. This we have the venerable New Republic, recently acquired by Chris Hughes, a founder of Facebook who recently failed to purchase a congressional seat for his homosexual partner, publishing an article that calls for eliminating the word “taxpayer” from our political rhetoric. Tom Johnson of Newsbusters spotted the attempt to brainwash the public out of the notion that money spent by the government was taken by force from the people who earned it. You don’t have to be Frank Luntz or George Lakoff to know that linguistic framing matters a great deal in politics. Sometimes, however, nuance is in the eye of the beholder. The New Republic’s Elizabeth Stoker Bruenig, for example,...(Read Full Post)