Shrugging Off the Liberal 'Resistance'
American tourists in foreign countries once had the reputation of believing that if they shouted loud enough the dumb foreigner standing there with a puzzled look on his face would somehow understand what they were saying. A stereotype that Liberals are now mindlessly acting out with the American people with their 24/7 rabid denunciations of President Trump.
Some of their words make sense but simply don't compute, as when the Liberals describe President Trump as a “failed billionaire.” The man flew everywhere in his own 757, he owned golf courses and hotels all over the world and before he moved into 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, lived in in a gold-encrusted four-story penthouse atop the gleaming skyscraper he owned overlooking Central Park.
So just what does “failed” billionaire mean? And how do I become one?
But most of their stuff is shouted out in language which doesn’t mean much to the natives of Brooklyn, Peoria or Biloxi. Not because they don’t know the definition of the words they’re hearing but because they rarely, very rarely, use them. I spent thirty years in manufacturing, I go to gun club meetings, American Legion meetings, I chat at the post office in the morning, I go to church and church affairs and have friends. But in all these years of mixing, I’ve only heard the word 'fascist' used by a man railing against his wife. Ditto for 'misogynist,' 'xenophobe,' 'Islamophobe' or 'homophobe.' Even the word 'Nazi' is rarely used to describe a bigot; usually just a very dogmatic person, as when my son-in-law humorously described (out of her hearing of course) a certain nutritionist almost comically opposed to sodium as a “salt-Nazi.” For that matter, you don’t hear the word 'racist' very much, either. In fact, as I sit here I cannot recall a single recent instance when someone I knew called someone else they knew a racist.
Instead, they tend to use the simple sins defined in the Ten Commandments, in anti-patriotic terms or in remarks about intelligence to label people they don’t like. And mostly in simple Anglo-Saxon/Middle English: liar, thief, fool, half-wit, nut-case, a__hole, retarded, corrupt, pervert, mental midget, idiot (often f___king idiot) and so on.
You see where this going. The simple Anglo-Saxon terms Donald Trump used to describe Hillary – “liar,” “corrupt,” “crooked,” “nasty,” resonated with middle America where the East and West Coast Liberal inside-the-bubble-talk that Hillary and her advocates used to describe Trump drew a blank. And so went the election.
But the media and political Liberals cannot stop themselves from continuing to rage on to the nation in the same stupid fashion because calling Trump’s America a dystopia helps reassure them that they’re smarter than people living in cow country. Besides, it’s the language of the narrow East Coast–West Coast very unhappy world in which they get rewarded.
They should know better, especially with the superior education they’re always claiming, because it’s an adage in writing or speaking in English that you should never use a long word when a shorter one will do, never a compound or foreign one when there is a simple Anglo-Saxon word you can substitute. Not if you’re trying to make your point the best way.
And in truth using big words, especially Latin and Greek compounds, don’t make you sound any smarter.
Indeed the opposite is true. Churchill taught us that. Told that he wasn’t considered smart enough for Eton with its Latin and Greek, he was instead was bundled off to Harrow where along with other lacklusters he was forced to study the simple Anglo-Saxon/Middle English sentence. And so as it turned out he wound up sounding smarter than anybody else because he could always get his ideas across.
Indeed, the man mesmerized the world with his oratory, with his command of the infinite possibilities which those simple Anglo-Saxon constructions offered.
The point being that maybe we conservatives should relax a tad because the ridiculous liberal vituperation, their so-called “resistance” can’t amount to much in terms of moving the mass of the American people. Not so long as they insist upon shouting at them in what amounts to a foreign language, dripping with condescension. And while President Trump has nowhere near the mastery of the language of someone like Churchill or Reagan, he’s brilliant in keeping his message simple and Anglo-Saxon: bad, good, amazing, huge, sad, great, jobs, deal, wall.
And so connects with his friends.
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Some of their words make sense but simply don't compute, as when the Liberals describe President Trump as a “failed billionaire.” The man flew everywhere in his own 757, he owned golf courses and hotels all over the world and before he moved into 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, lived in in a gold-encrusted four-story penthouse atop the gleaming skyscraper he owned overlooking Central Park.
So just what does “failed” billionaire mean? And how do I become one?
But most of their stuff is shouted out in language which doesn’t mean much to the natives of Brooklyn, Peoria or Biloxi. Not because they don’t know the definition of the words they’re hearing but because they rarely, very rarely, use them. I spent thirty years in manufacturing, I go to gun club meetings, American Legion meetings, I chat at the post office in the morning, I go to church and church affairs and have friends. But in all these years of mixing, I’ve only heard the word 'fascist' used by a man railing against his wife. Ditto for 'misogynist,' 'xenophobe,' 'Islamophobe' or 'homophobe.' Even the word 'Nazi' is rarely used to describe a bigot; usually just a very dogmatic person, as when my son-in-law humorously described (out of her hearing of course) a certain nutritionist almost comically opposed to sodium as a “salt-Nazi.” For that matter, you don’t hear the word 'racist' very much, either. In fact, as I sit here I cannot recall a single recent instance when someone I knew called someone else they knew a racist.
Instead, they tend to use the simple sins defined in the Ten Commandments, in anti-patriotic terms or in remarks about intelligence to label people they don’t like. And mostly in simple Anglo-Saxon/Middle English: liar, thief, fool, half-wit, nut-case, a__hole, retarded, corrupt, pervert, mental midget, idiot (often f___king idiot) and so on.
You see where this going. The simple Anglo-Saxon terms Donald Trump used to describe Hillary – “liar,” “corrupt,” “crooked,” “nasty,” resonated with middle America where the East and West Coast Liberal inside-the-bubble-talk that Hillary and her advocates used to describe Trump drew a blank. And so went the election.
But the media and political Liberals cannot stop themselves from continuing to rage on to the nation in the same stupid fashion because calling Trump’s America a dystopia helps reassure them that they’re smarter than people living in cow country. Besides, it’s the language of the narrow East Coast–West Coast very unhappy world in which they get rewarded.
They should know better, especially with the superior education they’re always claiming, because it’s an adage in writing or speaking in English that you should never use a long word when a shorter one will do, never a compound or foreign one when there is a simple Anglo-Saxon word you can substitute. Not if you’re trying to make your point the best way.
And in truth using big words, especially Latin and Greek compounds, don’t make you sound any smarter.
Indeed the opposite is true. Churchill taught us that. Told that he wasn’t considered smart enough for Eton with its Latin and Greek, he was instead was bundled off to Harrow where along with other lacklusters he was forced to study the simple Anglo-Saxon/Middle English sentence. And so as it turned out he wound up sounding smarter than anybody else because he could always get his ideas across.
Indeed, the man mesmerized the world with his oratory, with his command of the infinite possibilities which those simple Anglo-Saxon constructions offered.
The point being that maybe we conservatives should relax a tad because the ridiculous liberal vituperation, their so-called “resistance” can’t amount to much in terms of moving the mass of the American people. Not so long as they insist upon shouting at them in what amounts to a foreign language, dripping with condescension. And while President Trump has nowhere near the mastery of the language of someone like Churchill or Reagan, he’s brilliant in keeping his message simple and Anglo-Saxon: bad, good, amazing, huge, sad, great, jobs, deal, wall.
And so connects with his friends.
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"But most of their stuff is shouted out in language which doesn’t mean much to the natives of Brooklyn, Peoria or Biloxi. Not because they don’t know the definition of the words they’re hearing but because they rarely, very rarely, use them. I spent thirty years in manufacturing, I go to gun club meetings, American Legion meetings, I chat at the post office in the morning, I go to church and church affairs and have friends. But in all these years of mixing, I’ve only heard the word 'fascist' used by a man railing against his wife. Ditto for 'misogynist,' 'xenophobe,' 'Islamophobe' or 'homophobe.' Even the word 'Nazi' is rarely used to describe a bigot; usually just a very dogmatic person, as when my son-in-law humorously described (out of her hearing of course) a certain nutritionist almost comically opposed to sodium as a “salt-Nazi.” For that matter, you don’t hear the word 'racist' very much, either. In fact, as I sit here I cannot recall a single recent instance when someone I knew called someone else they knew a racist.
Instead, they tend to use the simple sins defined in the Ten Commandments, in anti-patriotic terms or in remarks about intelligence to label people they don’t like. And mostly in simple Anglo-Saxon/Middle English: liar, thief, fool, half-wit, nut-case, a__hole, retarded, corrupt, pervert, mental midget, idiot (often f___king idiot) and so on.
You see where this going. The simple Anglo-Saxon terms Donald Trump used to describe Hillary – “liar,” “corrupt,” “crooked,” “nasty,” resonated with middle America where the East and West Coast Liberal inside-the-bubble-talk that Hillary and her advocates used to describe Trump drew a blank. And so went the election.
But the media and political Liberals cannot stop themselves from continuing to rage on to the nation in the same stupid fashion because calling Trump’s America a dystopia helps reassure them that they’re smarter than people living in cow country. Besides, it’s the language of the narrow East Coast–West Coast very unhappy world in which they get rewarded."
Another well thought out, kindergarten cut and paste, in whole from the American Stinker. Academically above your standards, personally beneath my less then stellar expectations of you, XX.
You won, XX. The election is over. You can move on.
I doubt if it's possible for him to move on...He's seems to be stuck in the magical kingdom of Jefferson. Where delusions are accepted as fact.
The problem is that he's not alone. I think NT is kinda representative of the country. Conservatives have spent eight years doing nothing but attack, including using imaginary "facts"...
Now they're supposed to actually do something. But they don't know how.
So they continue to attack... becoming more and more absurd.
It's happening that's why you hear the loud screaming socialist snowflakes crying in the streets. First it's ridding ourselves of this Obamacare disaster then on to tax reform and cuts. The chainsaws are already running and the spending cuts are in the works. It's all going smoothly. Just yesterday he signed some deregulatory executive orders that should help kickstart the Xl pipeline.
It's all going smoothly.
The travel ban has been canned.
The border wall has been stalled.
The trump care is up in the air.
Is America great yet ?
Actually America has been great for a long time.
Definition of snowflake:
Exactly. They have nothing to offer but deflection.
With all branches of the government at their finger tips and they're still fighting with the ghosts of past administrations and former adversaries.
I'm not sure they realize what they are doing.
They have spent so much time attacking, for so long, that they literally don't know know how to do anything else. They don't see what they're doing.
The article makes a lot of sense to me, because the advice therein contributed to my success in whatever professions I followed. Although I majored in English literature in university, giving me an advantage over many whose use of English was somewhat limited, I have always known that making myself clearly understood "trumped" trying to impress others with my command of the language.
Where it has placed me in the greatest stead has been here in China where I teach English. When I came to China having been hired by a superior private high school I was retained for 6 years, whereas the schools here usually let foreign teachers go after no more than two years. Why? Because the students, whose English vocabulary was rarely extensive, found it easy to learn from me when I did not speak "over their heads" by always seeking out the simplest language to use to explain what they needed to know.
So, from successful experiences, I can vouch for that article and the lesson to be learned from it.