A List of Republican Code Words

it's ironic really. to be progressive means to be forward thinking, for anyone to be described as progressive in a bad way seems pretty ludicrous considering there is so much wrong with our system that anyone who thinks that 'conserving the norm' so to speak has to be bordering on insanity. that said in republican speak progressive is just a blanket word to mean a bad person with nasty intentions, there's little more to it than that.

when people hear the word progressive they think of the words socialism and communism and we all know how the american mind is incapable of hearing such words without developing such hatred, anger and disliking of whatever is being proposed or whoever is talking (generally pretty much regardless of exactly WHAT is being said) that the term progressive is a perfect play on peoples emotions and it works incredibly well.

there was a thread recently about increasing government influence over what videos are allowed to be uploaded to the net in italy and one poor guy suggested that because the italians were increasing internet powers that they must surely be a communist country. for the record they couldn't be less relevant things to one another and one has no relationship or bearing with the other. yet just like with the word progressive communism and socialism are now words which in america simply mean bad or 'things which we don't like regardless of any blatant hypocrisy in our point of view.

and yes it was predictable that that guy in this thread was refusing to say exactly what progressive means. of course to do so would be to either admit that he doesnt know or that it doesn't have any legitimate meaning based on anything of any particular importance or validity.

naturally i come out of this post looking like a democrat, but whilst i think the democrats are the SLIGHTLY lesser of two evils, both parties are quite evidently working for the same people and couldn't care less about the people. people will argue against whichever is the opposition party regardless of the fact that their own party is at least similarly as bad if not worse and i find it oh so tiresome to hear people act as though both parties are so different. to put your system in perspective, if you took the 'progressive liberal communist socialist bla bla' democrats and put them here in the uk, they would be considered right wing and conservative. in fact even our conservative party is more liberal- and they're nothing remotely close to a socialist party, they are in fact the main opposition! as for our 'socialist' labour party, they are at best centre and can hardly be described as that left wing these days and yet they are 10x more socialist than the democrats in america without even being considered a socialist party over here anymore.

but what can you expect from an america so laden with propaganda? it makes the uk look good in comparison (thats REALLY saying something). republicans dont like it when obama takes away your rights, spends stupid money on endless wars tries to bail out banks with tax-payers money and works for corporate america and has the media on his side and is war mongering with a middleeast country- yet the EXACT same was true of bush. all obama is doing is furthering bushs presidency and chucking in a hugely watered down health care system to try and add at least something to distinguish him, when all it is is a watered down plan to suit big pharma. i am not saying that bush is worse because he did these bad things first, im saying that if you can't see that they are both just puppets furthering the lobbyist agenda and working for the corporations then you are missing something badly. consider how obama talked of major environmental policies and yet his watered down policies are a joke to behold.

whilst i prefer the democrats for being a TINY bit more liberal i am only disappointed in myself for believing that obama was going to change things and so will those be who think a republican will change it

I find it funny that the people who preach tolerance tend to be the least tolerent of other people views that differ from theirs.

It's really all right-wing, conservative name calling.

To ANY of the conservative commentators the words socialist, marxist, communist, fascist, liberal, progressive, democrat are all meshed together to invoke fear. Fear of change and fear of the unkown. All of these words essentially mean the same thing to someone speaking them. Listen to ANY conservative commentator(Beck, Limbaugh, Savage, Hannity, Cunningham, etc.) for 10 minutes and you'll probably hear one of these words.

All of these words are used, by conservative commentators, to describe someone who feels that there are problems with our society and seek to rectify them thus progressing society to, hopefully, bigger and better things.

New words used as synonyms for the above: SEIU, ACLU, ACORN, and a few others that I can't think of right now. I know they're not 'new' words but they're starting to be lumped together.

Everything the president proposes is socialist and radical leftist and, as such, we get a newspeak (thanks Orwell) root word to invoke fear of socialism and 'change'; Obamacare, Obama-nomics, etc.

Personally, I feel that the right and conservatives that fear tyranny and totalitarinism should read 1984 and then look, not to their liberal/progressive counterparts, but to the GOP and conservative commentators for hints of newspeak and doublespeak. Where terrorist and enemy combatant are the same, where socialist and fascist are the same.

hey we can forget about the the good ol REDNECK DICTIONARY

I found this for y'all all daw way frum CanaDUH!

RATS - noun. Entitled power or privilege.
Usage: "We Southerners are willing to fight for out rats."
(Today's Southern Word comes from a school teacher in America's
southern most state: Hawaii. As part of her class' study of the
"War of Northern Aggression" (known to Yankees at the "Civil War"),
she showed her class the movie Gettysburg. The students wondered why
the Confederacy was fighting for their "rats." The answer, of course,
is obvious: Southerners have very friendly rats ... in fact, you
could almost say that we have some downright civil rats.)

Mayonaise: Mayonaise a lot of people here tunight!


Aorta: Aorta cut that grass down der buh the bawl field!

Initiate: My wife ate two hamburgers initiate 2 racks uh ribs.

WINK!!!

reply to post by FortAnthem


So I guess the obvious question (to me), is what did all those words that mean 'black' now, mean before Obama was president? That was the whole point right? 'Cause you know, all them communists can't all be black...

Chrono

reply to post by endisnighe


LOL. Wow man, just wow. You still do not get it. I tried to get you to just read the list but you refuse. OK. If you really want to look stupid by calling it a liberal list without even reading it, go for it. If you want to use big fonts and pictures to highlight that, EVEN BETTER.

Some day you might accidentally read the list and you are going to feel incredibly stupid. It is ok. It happens to people like you from time to time.

reply to post by Lillydale


Obviously you are the one not getting it... and the more you laugh the dumber you look because you can't even understand it when it is being pointed at you....

wow...just wow... i wonder how much longer it wil take for her to get it....

BTW, I was born in a Communist country and experienced Communism, and Communist is NOT a code word for black man....

BTW, in case you didn't know, and you obviously didn't, the U.S.A. is a REPUBLIC.... Republican is an advocate of the Republic.

BTW, if you know someone who experienced Communism, and wasn't part of the Communist elitists, they will tell you what "Progressive" means... A Progressive is a Socialist or Communist who doesn't want to call himself/herself a Socialist or Communist. Although not all Liberals are completely Socialist, or Communist they do tend to advocate Socialist, and even Communist programs, and goals. But of course to them the word "Republican" is a bad word... Obviously they haven't read much about the history of the U.S., or even read the Constitution of the U.S.


[edit on 26-1-2010 by ElectricUniverse]

Originally posted by ElectricUniverse
reply to post by Lillydale

 

Obviously you are the one not getting it... and the more you laugh the dumber you look because you can't even understand it when it is being pointed at you....

wow...just wow... i wonder how much longer it wil take for her to get it....

BTW, I was born in a Communist country and experienced Communism, and Communist is NOT a code word for black man....

BTW, in case you didn't know, and you obviously didn't, the U.S.A. is a REPUBLIC.... Republican is an advocate of the Republic.

BTW, if you know someone who experienced Communism, and wasn't part of the Communist elitists, they will tell you what "Progressive" means... A Progressive is a Socialist or Communist who doesn't want to call himself/herself a Socialist or Communist. Although not all Liberals are completely Socialist, or Communist they do tend to advocate Socialist, and even Communist programs, and goals. But of course to them the word "Republican" is a bad word...

Obviously they haven't read much about the history of the U.S., or even read the Constitution of the U.S.


[edit on 26-1-2010 by ElectricUniverse]

LOL and yet another opinion from someone who DID NOT READ THE ACTUAL LIST. Laugh it up and call me whatever you like but ranting about communism when I clearly pointed out a very ANTI-LIBERAL term at the top of the list, just makes you look crazy. Whatever makes you all laugh. Sorry if I went after the list instead of where it linked from or whatever you are babbling about.

Originally posted by ElectricUniverse
reply to post by Lillydale

 

Obviously you are the one not getting it... and the more you laugh the dumber you look because you can't even understand it when it is being pointed at you....

wow...just wow... i wonder how much longer it wil take for her to get it....

I think she's arguing that it's a list about republican words, not liberals. She's missed the whole point that it is just that, but was written by a liberal.

BTW, I was born in a Communist country and experienced Communism, and Communist is NOT a code word for black man....

BTW, in case you didn't know, and you obviously didn't, the U.S.A. is a REPUBLIC.... Republican is an advocate of the Republic.

According to the 17th amendment of the U.S. constitution we're a democratic republic.

BTW, if you know someone who experienced Communism, and wasn't part of the Communist elitists, they will tell you what "Progressive" means... A Progressive is a Socialist or Communist who doesn't want to call himself/herself a Socialist or Communist. Although not all Liberals are completely Socialist, or Communist they do tend to advocate Socialist, and even Communist programs, and goals. But of course to them the word "Republican" is a bad word...

Obviously they haven't read much about the history of the U.S., or even read the Constitution of the U.S.

So if a progressive was considered a communist/socialist, what would be the appropriate label for an anti-communist? Liberal?

Edit: Misuse of quoted reference.

[edit on 26-1-2010 by links234]

'communist' is slang for black?

hmm, well now I understand why lenin was always referring to stalin as 'my n!gher'

Star and Flag! Nice find. It is in the proper forum, political madness. It is a really complete list, they even covered the word 'thoughtful'. Whoever wrote the list, I hope they were joking, if they weren't, they truly are bonkers.

reply to post by FortAnthem


I think your post is a bad one because it fails to attack Democrats, who are openly fascist. Openly, because most of their funding comes from corporations, and most of their time of the day goes to listening to what corporate representatives have to say. Many of the bills they vote for are written by a for-profit corporation. When the first bill that was written by a for-profit corporation was placed up for vote that was the time to get out the pitchforks and torches. We're past the point of action, people. Not that I'm saying we should get violent but clearly we MUST act or we'll suffer through the terror of completely fascist state at some point in most of our life-times.

Being a former Republican I could go off and rail just as hard against Democrats. Why bother? They are both stale old news ready for the trash bin. In some states, Independents now outnumber the Republicans and Democrats, because of the attitude of "only popular candidates can win" belief. I get the feeling people in MA state will continue to vote R & D down to the point where only 25% of the population boxes them self in as a red Hitler(Republican) or a blue Stalin(Democrat). Oh, you've got to vote for Stalin because he is so much better than Hitler. No no, you've got to vote for Hitler because he is so much better than Stalin. Umm... how about voting NO?

From here on out I pledge never to attack or talk bad about Republicans without making at least an effort to talk equally bad about Democrats. I generally attack the Dems more being a former Republican, so I'll focus on the point that most Republicans spend their time reading what a for-profit corporation has suggested they write in the law books and therefore they are point-blank fascists and its a crime against morality to vote for them. I also pledge to correct people when they attack one party without attacking the other. And I'll hope that attitude not only spreads on ATS but beyond.

Personally I find I get a warm reception when I tell just about anyone "I'll never vote for either Republican or Democrat because I think they are both corrupt." I can't go around saying 9/11 was an inside job but I can tell everyday friends and co-workers about the evils of the 2-party monster.

It's a great example of the left wing hate machine running in full panic mode. This and the fabricated Ellie Light letters should tell you exactly who rolls astroturf.

reply to post by links234


"According to the 17th amendment of the U.S. constitution we're a democratic republic. "

The United States is a Republic. The democratic part means we vote in our Republic.

Trying to suggest that a democratic Republic is more of a "democratic" than a "Republic" is like trying to suggest that a jelly doughnut is more of a "jelly" than a "doughnut."

Ben Franklin gave this analogy: In a Democracy two wolves and a sheep vote on what's for dinner, in a Republic the sheep has a gun.

I want to say that Republicans and Democrats are full of crap. Neither of them have the best interest of the nation or the people in heart.

That being said, those words make no sense. When I say Obama is a socialist, it has nothing to do with the color of his sking, but his agenda.

I also feel that the Dems. are the most racist party that we have in government. They believe that the black community is not capable of working and providing for themselves, so they try to buy them with additional welfare and food stamps.

Originally posted by Renegade Bison
it's ironic really. to be progressive means to be forward thinking, for anyone to be described as progressive in a bad way seems pretty ludicrous considering there is so much wrong with our system that anyone who thinks that 'conserving the norm' so to speak has to be bordering on insanity. that said in republican speak progressive is just a blanket word to mean a bad person with nasty intentions, there's little more to it than that.

when people hear the word progressive they think of the words socialism and communism and we all know how the american mind is incapable of hearing such words without developing such hatred, anger and disliking of whatever is being proposed or whoever is talking (generally pretty much regardless of exactly WHAT is being said) that the term progressive is a perfect play on peoples emotions and it works incredibly well.

there was a thread recently about increasing government influence over what videos are allowed to be uploaded to the net in italy and one poor guy suggested that because the italians were increasing internet powers that they must surely be a communist country. for the record they couldn't be less relevant things to one another and one has no relationship or bearing with the other. yet just like with the word progressive communism and socialism are now words which in america simply mean bad or 'things which we don't like regardless of any blatant hypocrisy in our point of view.

and yes it was predictable that that guy in this thread was refusing to say exactly what progressive means. of course to do so would be to either admit that he doesnt know or that it doesn't have any legitimate meaning based on anything of any particular importance or validity.

naturally i come out of this post looking like a democrat, but whilst i think the democrats are the SLIGHTLY lesser of two evils, both parties are quite evidently working for the same people and couldn't care less about the people. people will argue against whichever is the opposition party regardless of the fact that their own party is at least similarly as bad if not worse and i find it oh so tiresome to hear people act as though both parties are so different. to put your system in perspective, if you took the 'progressive liberal communist socialist bla bla' democrats and put them here in the uk, they would be considered right wing and conservative. in fact even our conservative party is more liberal- and they're nothing remotely close to a socialist party, they are in fact the main opposition! as for our 'socialist' labour party, they are at best centre and can hardly be described as that left wing these days and yet they are 10x more socialist than the democrats in america without even being considered a socialist party over here anymore.

but what can you expect from an america so laden with propaganda? it makes the uk look good in comparison (thats REALLY saying something). republicans dont like it when obama takes away your rights, spends stupid money on endless wars tries to bail out banks with tax-payers money and works for corporate america and has the media on his side and is war mongering with a middleeast country- yet the EXACT same was true of bush. all obama is doing is furthering bushs presidency and chucking in a hugely watered down health care system to try and add at least something to distinguish him, when all it is is a watered down plan to suit big pharma. i am not saying that bush is worse because he did these bad things first, im saying that if you can't see that they are both just puppets furthering the lobbyist agenda and working for the corporations then you are missing something badly. consider how obama talked of major environmental policies and yet his watered down policies are a joke to behold.

whilst i prefer the democrats for being a TINY bit more liberal i am only disappointed in myself for believing that obama was going to change things and so will those be who think a republican will change it

what is so ironic is the fact that you are looking at it after 60 years of destruction has happened.

to be progressive DOES mean to be forward looking. Looking forward to the day that everyone can be a government agent with no face, no responsibilities, and no life of their own.

to conserve the norm as you put it, would actually be to conserve the norm from Before progressives such as roosevelt and the likes had their way with our country and fundamentally changed its outlook on our "ROLE IN THE WORLD"

conservatives want small government (dont we all? big government has been proven to be a mess), and no one in their way to tell them what to do.

apparently progressives need a nanny....

theres a reason why socialism and communism are bad words.... LOOK AT EVERY EXAMPLE OF THAT SYSTEM, and truthfully tell me you want to live that way. instead of changing our system, which lead us to be the most powerful countries in the shortest amount of time EVER, just move to one with failing socialist government.

and italy democratic republic, run by...
"Giorgio Napolitano is the President of the Italian Republic, whilst Silvio Berlusconi is the nation's Prime Minister (President of the Council of Ministers)."

and it just so happens to be that Giorgio Napolitano (en.wikipedia.org...) is in the en.wikipedia.org... thats right... a communist....

i agree with you about why he wouldnt say what a progressive is. hes scared to admit it. just like im sure a lot of people are scared to admit that the communist party in america is behind the "green" movement. makes sense about all the world control stuff coming from conspiracy on climate change now doesnt it.

everything else you say i whole heartedly agree with

Good times brother!

edit to change that i am a little more republican. i think kids should be home schooled, prisoners should be hung or in work camps (violent offenders should be the only ones in prison too), government should not have anything to do with business, federal government isnt our boss and the states are in charge with the voice of their majority, and politicians shouldnt be career, guns should be a right to every person, and the us government isnt the worlds police or nanny, yet abortions are the womans decision and why cant gays do what everyone else can.

its your life, do what you want with it.

no where in that did i say, slavery is good (its abhorrent), or white people are the best

[edit on 1/26/2010 by mahtoosacks]

You Fail.

Still haven't realized that there's no difference in Democrats or Republicans, huh? At least, not on the topics that REALLY matter.

I can't remember the last time gun rights or abortion affected my daily life. Yet, people still huddle around these ideas (and even argue about them, LMAO) as if they really effect their lives.

Meanwhile both parties are out there voting for corporate bailouts, their own wage increases, and cuts in health care and social security ... and numerous other things that ACTUALLY effect daily lives for thousands of Americans.

But, spending TRILLIONS of dollars on wars of aggression in foreign countries just isn't as important to some people as whether or not same sex marriages are legal or illegal.

Get over it. The Red v Blue argument is dead. And good luck convincing anyone that Democrats or Republican are any better than the other.

No star. No flag.

[edit on 26-1-2010 by tyranny22]

Originally posted by russ212
I want to say that Republicans and Democrats are full of crap. Neither of them have the best interest of the nation or the people in heart.

That being said, those words make no sense. When I say Obama is a socialist, it has nothing to do with the color of his sking, but his agenda.

I also feel that the Dems. are the most racist party that we have in government. They believe that the black community is not capable of working and providing for themselves, so they try to buy them with additional welfare and food stamps.

i think you are meaning to say that when it comes to senators and officials are full of crap.

the republican and democrat people really do want what they think is best.

both do.

no one wants to destroy our nation. maybe some anarchists do, but who counts them anyways

what is happening though, is the people are being played against each other with crap such as the OP showed. this stuff is just a manual on how to fit in with your clique!

and i am just about tired of people (dems) calling every white person racist because we dont like obama's policies. IT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH HIM BEING BLACK DAMN! get over it.

you just have nothing else to say, so you try to say that.

the cliques are tearing apart the country. both sides are racist (its human nature). hating the majority is exactly the same as hating the minority. saying right wing nut job, or pinko-commie wanna be are just attempts to discredit someone by name calling.

wake the f up people

Originally posted by tyranny22
You Fail.

Still haven't realized that there's no difference in Democrats or Republicans, huh? At least, not on the topics that REALLY matter.

I can't remember the last time gun rights or abortion affected my daily life. Yet, people still huddle around these ideas (and even argue about them, LMAO) as if they really effect their lives.

Meanwhile both parties are out there voting for corporate bailouts, their own wage increases, and cuts in health care and social security ... and numerous other things that ACTUALLY effect daily lives for thousands of Americans.

But, spending BILLIONS of dollars on wars of aggression in foreign countries just isn't as important to some people as whether or not same sex marriages are legal or illegal.

Get over it. The Red v Blue argument is dead. And good luck convincing anyone that Democrats or Republican are any better than the other.

No star. No flag.

[edit on 26-1-2010 by tyranny22]

star to you sir.

except gun rights do matter

lose that one and see what happens. you wont want to

Originally posted by desert
Actually, I was expecting to see Newt Gingrich's 1996 GOPAC memo

It's a serious list. Words to use when describing oneself or fellow Republicans, and words to use when describing opponents. Seems to have worked.

Interesting. "Activist" back then was positive .... I guess prior to "activist judges". Word usage certainly does change. And "greed" applied to the opponent.

Nice contribution, there...and not actually addressed by the Rabid Right on this thread. I had to laugh going through the posts...it's like somebody kicked an ant hill!