Personally I think it is our duty as reality based information devotees to spread the truth as far as wide as possible. In fact the future of our country may depend on it.
By the way somebody on Reddit posted this rather helpful guide to help translate Right Wing rhetoric into English:
Freedom = Tax Cuts for the rich; viewing the planet as a profit opportunity; having the unrestricted right to own guns; not having to contemplate other people's offensive lifestyles
Oppression = no Tax Cuts for the rich; failure of government to enforce the Laws of Jesus
Laws of Jesus = ask Glenn Beck
Rights = Tax Cuts for the rich; federal benefits for Real Americans
Socialism = no Tax Cuts for the rich; other people's federal benefits
Communism = having to buy health insurance from for-profit businesses
Tyranny = no Tax Cuts for the rich with a black President
Freedom of Speech = The right to make offensive comments without consequences
Life = a short period of exalted human value beginning at conception, ending at birth, and returning when someone wants to die
Liberty = Tax Cuts for the rich; enforced conformity to 1950s social norms
Pursuit of Happiness = crusading for Tax Cuts for the rich; accumulating stuff; firing guns; feeling superior to someone
Big Spending = money spent on things they don't profit from
Legitimate Government = money spent on things they profit from
Deficit = really big number used to scare voters; irrelevant when Republican is President; existential threat when Democrat is President
Tax Cuts = magic engine of prosperity and growth; signal to job producers to make more jobs; certainly not about the rich getting richer; reduction in federal revenue irrelevant to National Debt
National Debt = bad; a black hole destined to destroy everything good in the world that mysteriously loses its power and significance when Republicans are in control of the budget; result of Democrat Big Spending.
Private Debt = good; a mechanism by which the rich get richer and the poor get poorer
Class Warfare = a discussion of wealth that might be heard by members of the middle class; mentioning growing wealth gap
National Defense = see Legitimate Government.
National Security = secret activities that would otherwise be illegal
Homeland Security = secret Legitimate Government
Nation Building = Democrat foreign wars
Defense of Freedom = Republican foreign wars
Government Waste = see Big
SpendingJobs = something voters want that becomes significant around elections
Job Creators = future aristocrats
Small Business = Koch Industries
Growth = increasing corporate profits and capital gains
Privatization = turning public functions into profit opportunities
Voter Fraud = Democrat victory
Fair Election = long lines only in cities; working class people losing a day’s pay in order to vote
Racism = historical social problem that ended in 1968
Reverse Racism = belief that Racism still exists
Justice = to be defined
Judicial Activism = court decisions they don't like
Judicial Restraint = court decisions they like
Constitution = piece of paper sometimes useful for Judicial Restraint; source of 2nd Amendment and a bunch of words
States’ Rights = justification for returning programs, regulations and the enforcement of civil rights to states
Return to States = eliminate
Illegal Alien = brown people who have recently come to America
Immigrant = white people whose grandparents came to America
Real American = white people who don't know how they got here; Republican
Those People = descendants of slaves who don’t vote Republican
Morality = Laws of Jesus as applied to other people
Abstinence = the practice of every sexual act except one in order to remain a virgin (women); a cover story for closet cases (men)
Jesus = someone really powerful who loves them no matter what they do and who will someday punish people they don't like
Lip Service = all Jesus asks of us; see also Abstinence
You know the truly frightening part of this list is that most of it is NOT tongue in cheek but rather a completely accurate description.
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