How the left performs linguistic gymnastics in order to confuse, shame, sway opinions, exert control, etc.
In George Orwell's book 1984, war is peace, freedom is slavery, and ignorance is strength. Similarly, liberals are famous for their Orwellian tactic of perverting language. Here are a few examples:
| Their deceptive language | What they really mean and/or truth |
| Our Democracy™ | The democrat party's way. The democrat party's Marxist agenda dies if you don't vote democrat. Hint: Voting is democracy. |
| Democracy™ is on the ballot | Trump is Hitler. Dog whistle to trigger a democrat brownshirt to go out and assassinate Trump. |
| Trump's assault on American Democracy™ | Pure hysteria |
| The Science™ | The politics. Ignoring of science. |
| The Science™ is settled | Oxymoron statement. Science is never 'settled', especially when it's something as complex as climate change or COVID. |
| Misinformation, disinformation, malinformation, misleading | Terms used as a fascist power/ moral superiority grab. Conveniently subjective terms used as a pretense to censor 1st Amendment-protected information, facts, or opinions that contradict their lies and propaganda. |
| January 6th insurrection, attack | Vastly peaceful Republican protest. Nobody has ever been charged with insurrection. False pretense to stop Trump in 2024. "I know that everyone here will soon be marching over to the Capitol building to peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard." - Donald Trump on Jan 6th |
| Protesters, mostly peaceful protesters, pockets of unrest, just trying to put food on their tables | Term used to downplay democrats, leftists, immigrants, ANTIFA, and/or BLM behaving badly, arson, rioting, vandalizing, looting, assaulting, killing, refusing to accept results of the 2016 election. |
| Shots fired, apparent gunshots rang through the crowd, shooting at rally, loud noises, golf club incident | Assassination attempt on Trump! Prevent Trump from becoming a martyr/hero. |
| Climate denier | Assumes that they are right, the debate is over, and The Science™ is settled |
| Election denier | Assumes that they are right, there was no 2020 election fraud (there was plenty). Ignores Hillary Clinton, Stacey Abrams, and Al Gore election denialism. |
| The 'Big Lie' | Democrats hysterically borrowing from Holocaust denial language |
| Contemporary scientific consensus | Left-wing GroupThink. Cherry-picked, government paid scientists own the science. Fancy language to justify censoring anyone who challenges their unsettled science. |
| Climate action | The word 'action' falsely implies that humans can actually do something to affect earth's climate. The only 'action' happening is the raising of taxes and erosion of our freedoms. |
| Climate change, global weirding | When we had record cold winters, the term 'global warming' became a publicity nightmare. |
| Climate crisis, climate tragedy, climate bomb, global boiling | Just add hyperbolic language, and in a Pavlovian response, the peasants automatically get terrified. Pure hysteria. |
| Climate change denial | The left confessing through projection. The science is not settled. Skepticism is rational. |
| Women's March | Democrat women's anti-Trump march, anti-white, anti-Elon Musk, anti-GOP, etc. |
| People's March | Democrats' anti-Trump march |
| Sustainability | A happy name for Marxism, globalism, less white people, open borders, climate nonsense, LGBTQ tribalism, ESG, etc. |
| Progressive | Repressive, regressive. Also, a happy-sounding name for Marxists, socialists, far-leftists. |
| Diversity, inclusion, equity | DIE!, Division, Incompetence, and Exclusion. A happy-sounding term for replacing white people with non-white people. Flooding wealthy white countries with non-whites, but not non-white countries. Modern day Jim Crow. Racial Fascism. |
| Equitable distribution | Karl Marx, redistribution of wealth |
| Too male, too pale, and too stale | Gender, race, and age discrimination. Violation of the 1964 Civil Rights Act. |
| Southern appearance | Arab-looking terrorist at Diversity Festival. One of Merkel's many marauders. |
| Colonialist | Anti-white slur, xenophobia |
| Diversity is our strength | Less white people. Diversity is our undoing. Diversity unravels cultures and countries. If diversity actually was a strength then they wouldn't have to constantly repeat the phrase. |
| Corporate Social Responsibility | A happy name for corporate discrimination. Woke companies colluding with each other to hire based on race, LGBTQ, and gender over merit. Climate change nonsense, anti-oil, anti-guns, anti-tobacco, etc. Also, penalizing consumers who don't adhere to the woke ideology. |
| Climate justice | White people are to blame for weather and people of color are suffering as a result. |
| _______ justice | Whether it be climate, LGBTQ, social, or anything else, just insert the word 'justice' in order to magically create a Pavlovian response of racial outrage. |
| Representation goals, fostering inclusion, infusing talent, developing leaders, empowering, full authentic seleves | Happy terminology for racist race quotas, reverse discrimination |
| Safe Neighborhoods & Schools Act | Legal to shoplift up to $950 in merchandise. |
| Unity | Shut up and let us democrats get what we want |
| Transformative | The radical leftist agenda |
| Electric, powerful | Coordinated media propaganda to cheer for the DNC |
| Unhinged, divisive, causing chaos, mentally unstable, unfit for office, lacking mental fitness, etc. | Hysterical smear words that they use to describe anyone who disagrees with their leftist views, policies, etc |
| Immigrants | Illegal immigrants |
| Refugees | Economic migrant invasion |
| Cultural enrichment | Destruction of Western culture with immigrants from Syria, Africa, etc. |
| Anti-fascist | Pro-fascist |
| Anti-racist | Anti-white |
| Anti-masker | Smear term. Falsely assumes that masks actually work to stop respiratory viruses. |
| Anti-Vaxxer | Smear term. Falsely assumes that getting vaccinated is the right decision. |
| Directed evolution | Gain of function research |
| Build back better | Burn the system down, roll out socialism |
| Fundamentally change America | Destroy America with socialism |
| Inspire change, it takes all of us, stop hate | The NFL's prisoners running the prison with happy sounding euphemisms for critical race theory, 'social justice', equity of outcome, racial discrimination, dismantling of the justice system. |
| Unity over division | Falsely casts Republicans as divisive and democrats as unifiers. "Unity" to them conveniently means everyone surrendering to their radical plans. |
| Truth over lies | War is peace, freedom is slavery, ignorance is strength. |
| A nation divided, He will not divide us | Democrats and their media create division, then falsely cast Trump as divisive |
| Deep fake, cheap fake, used out of context | Any unedited video of Joe Biden's cognitive decline that the media doesn't want the public to see or believe. |
| Trump's lies | Trump's truth, facts, opinions that we don't like. |
| "Grab them by the p----" | Omitted: "They let you do it" (AKA consent) |
| Medical misinformation | AKA We own The Science™. Any truthful facts, studies, or opinions that contradict those of the media and medical establishment regarding masks, lockdowns, asymptomatic spread, vaccines, etc. |
| Vaccine equity | Prioritizing 'people of color' to be used as guinea pigs to test a rushed out, emergency use vaccine with no long-term safety data and suspicious short-term safety-data. |
| Pandemic of the unvaccinated | Pandemic of the vaccinated |
| Nobody is above the law (Trump or conservatives) | Lawfare, dual system of justice, witch-hunt, election interference, show me the Republican or conservative man and I'll find you the crime. |
| Selective prosecution, miscarriage of justice, Joe Biden's fatherly love of his only living son, the gift of freedom | Hunter Biden is above the law. |
| By a jury of his peers | By a jury of never-Trumpers, presided over by a never-Trumper judge in a rabidly blue city |
| Bullying | Having differing opinions, presenting inconvenient facts. A false pretense for censorship. |
| Microagressions | Censorship gone full-Marxist. Hyper-race-mongering |
| Misguided | Free-thinking people on the right who have found truth. |
| Controversial | Smear term for anyone who presents facts and/or opinions that work against leftist groupthink. This term does not exist in their vocabulary to describe leftists. |
| Conspiracy theory, fringe theory | Smear term for any truth that contradicts their agenda, beliefs, lies, etc. Something that they don't want you to hear, and later quietly admit is true or likely true. |
| Without evidence, no evidence | With evidence [1, 2, 3] |
| Disinformation Governance Board | Orwellian "Ministry of Truth" to protect Democrats from truthful information that gets out. The snake watching over the hen house. |
| Media ethics, media literacy, AB 873 | Orwellian Ministry of Truth brainwashing kids about how to think on climate change, COVID, Jan 6th, etc. |
| Debunked | Smear term for anything that they disagree with. Certainly not proven false, as the word might suggest. |
| Comprehensive, proactive, mindful, meet the moment | Meaningless gibberish words used to pacify |
| Has bipartisan support | The only Republican support comes from RINO's like Mitt Romney, Liz Cheney, and Lisa Murkowski. |
| Historic, make history | A shield of protection for left-wing activist judge, Ketanji Brown Jackson. Any senator who votes NO to her confirmation is a racist who is ruining history. Conversely used to attack people they don't like or praise people they like. A participation trophy for leftists. |
| Employment Development Department | Welfare program |
| Uncle Tom | Any black who doesn't fall in line with the democrats |
| Affirmative action | Discrimination against Caucasions and Asians |
| Troll | Someone with conservative opinions or inconvenient facts |
| Believe women | Guilty until proven innocent (unless a democrat is accused) |
| Gun reform | Repeal the 2nd Amendment through incremental bans |
| Nazi, dictator, fascist, semi-fascist, textbook fascist, Hitler, etc | Names they call anyone they disagree with, especially Trump. |
| Actual Nazi | When constantly calling people you don't like a 'Nazi' gets worn out. |
| Treason, Russian asset | Conservative spreading inconvenient truths or differing opinions |
| Russian disinformation | Truthful information |
| Hate speech, harmful content, “anti-democratic” disinformation. | Facts, or simply conservative speech that they disagree with and want to censor. Crimes without definition. |
| Free-for-all | The gaslighting of free speech. The normalization of censorship. Freedom is slavery. |
| Freedom of speech, but not freedom of reach | Happy name for censoring conservatives and their inconvenient facts and opinions, etc. |
| Promote healthy discourse, positive speech, safe | Censorship of conservative speech |
| Content moderation | Censorship |
| Internet regulators | Communists, tyranical governments snuffing out free speech |
| Pre-bunking | Censorship |
| Online harrassment | A leftist being presented with inconvenient facts, differing opinions |
| Disinformation and the Erosion of Democracy Conference | Democrat Marxists pushing for less democracy through increased censorship of conservatives |
| White supremacist, white nationalist | Critical race theory smear term thrown at any Republican, white person, or anti-globalist. Confession through projection. |
| Radicalized, controversial, far-right [1, 2 , 3], hard-right, white nationalist, etc. | Smear terms for conservatives, centrists, Republicans, populists, nationalists, anyone who disagrees | Vigilante | Someone who honorably and lawfully defends businesses from ANTIFA/BLM arsonists/anarchists | Does not exist in their vocabulary | Living unsheltered, unhoused resident, our unhoused neighbors, experiencing homelessness. | Vagrant, homeless, drug addict |
| Harm reduction | Enabling drug addition, death increase |
| Xenophobic, Islamophobic | No borders, no country |
| Border Extremism | Patriotic citizens protecting the border when government refuses to enforce immigration laws |
| Humanitarian pause | Stop fighting the Hamas terrorists |
| Genocide | Unavoidable collateral damage that happens in war |
| Me Too Movement | The democrat party |
| The soul of our nation is at stake | The survival of the democrat party is at stake |
| Action civics, civic engagement, project-based civics, Civics Learning Act of 2021 | Leftist brownshirts protesting, intimidating, and rioting |
| Teacher, professor | Groomer, indoctrinator |
| Journalist | DNC activist |
| Historically black colleges and universities. HBCUs. | Black colleges and universities. Meanwhile, mostly white colleges and universities are considered racist. |
| Trespassing, breaking the law, blocking traffic | Project Veritas journalist |
| Book burning | Smear term comparison to describe conservatives upholding basic civil liberties by removing critical race theory books from school libraries |
| Rioters, mob, white supremacists | An attempt to smear all conservatives who protest |
| Protests | ANTIFA/BLM riots |
| Left-leaning | Rioters, vandals, looters, ANTIFA, BLM |
| People of color | Pandering, dog-whistle term to generate votes. We have no idea how this term is not racist, but 'colored people' is racist. |
| Whitesplaining | Explaining why things that aren't racist aren't racist. |
| Alt-right, far-right, extremist | Smear of any middle-of-the-road Republicans or Trump supporters who don't adhere to Democrat groupthink |
| Assault weapon (AR-15) | A name that scares liberals, yet hunting rifles are more powerful |
| Victims | Anarchist thugs who attacked Kyle Rittenhouse |
| Unarmed | Armed with a knife |
| Across state lines | Attempt to defame Kyle Rittenhouse as having committed some sort of 'crime' |
| Sedition, abuse of power, obstruction of congress | Show me the man (Trump) and I'll show you the crime |
| Get out the vote, Rock the vote | People who aren't motivated to vote usually vote (D). People who push these slogans are trying to get more (D) votes. |
| Back on the world stage | Globalism, socialism, smearing Trump for being a nationalist, solidarity with world leftists like Angela Merkel, Emmanuel Macron, and Justin Trudeau. Paris Climate Accord nonsense, endless funding for Ukraine, etc. |
| Putin's puppet, a foreign agent | Trump trying to give peace a chance. Tucker Carlson doing journalism in Russia. |
| Trump is coddling dictators | Trump trying to give peace a chance. |
| Trump's tax cuts benefit the wealthy | Trump's tax cuts benefit those who pay the most in taxes |
| The border challenge | The border crisis |
| Reallocate funding, reimagine policing, reimagine public safety, police accountability, diversion program | Defund the police, race-mongering |
| Reimagine Democracy | Socialism, communism, racism |
| Return to Jim Crow | The GOP making voting more secure to help prevent voter fraud |
| They wanna put y'all back in chains, bring back slavery | Anti-GOP hysteria |
| Expand voter access, voting rights | Make it easier to vote without an ID -- AKA encourage fraud, allow illegal immigrants to vote. |
| Voter suppression | Election security measures to prevent fraud |
| The most important election of our lifetime, fragile democracy, this may be our last election | Anti-Trump hysteria |
| The most important election of our lifetime, fragile democracy, this may be our last election | Anti-Trump hysteria |
| Trump is a convicted felon | Convicted by a kangaroo court. So was Nelson Mandela. |
| For the People Act, Voting Rights Bill, Freedom to Vote Act | Strip states of their ability to implement basic election integrity safeguards, such as requiring an ID. Preserve voting system deficiency. |
| Existential threat , unprecedented threat | Hyperbolic hysteria. An actual democrat conspiracy theory. |
| Fact, fact-based | Democrat opinion or falsehood |
| Fact-check, independent fact-checker | Truth suppression by a left-wing propaganda outlet, opinion |
| Missing context | Not enough liberal context |
| Non-partisan | Partisan |
| Conservative, Jennifer Rubin | Liberal, Jennifer Rubin |
| Staunch conservative, Liz Cheney | Trump-hating RINO, Liz Cheney |
| Moderate, Centrist, Tim Walz | Far-leftist, Tim Walz |
| Pro-choice | Babies don't get to choose |
| War on women | War on babies |
| Parade incident, parade crash, parade accident, holiday crash, deadly crash, Waukesha tragedy, tragedy caused by SUV | Terms used to obscure a racially motivated mass murder perpetrated by a person of color |
| Melee | A word to lessen a mass murder perpetrated by a person of color |
| Teens, group of teens, group of looters, crowd stampede, roving teens, mob of teens, hungry teens, flash mob, young people, youth | Violent blacks loot and destroy business. |
| Let's Go Brandon 'right-wing slur', and 'vulgar insult' | But it's perfectly OK for them to insult and defame Trump |
| Domestic terrorist | Parent voicing opposition to critical race theory being taught in school. Canadian protester. |
| Shrinkage, loss prevention | Out of control retail theft in democrat-run city |
| She/her | He/him |
| Gender affirming care | Child castration, gender denial, mental illness denial. |
| Misgender | Gender |
| Homophobic "Don't Say Gay" bill | Parental rights bill, protecting kindergarten children from transgenderism indoctrination |
| White dudes [for Harris] | Effeminate white men pretending to identify as masculine, cool, normal. Democrats are too afraid to shame black men. |
| Democrat Oversight Committee | Witchhunt army and smear factory |
| FBI investigation, search, search warrant on Sheila Kuehl (D) | Minimizing an FBI RAID on a democrat. Nothing to see here. Move along. |
| RAID on Trump (R) | Investigation, search, search warrant executed. Orangeman very bad! |
| Inflation Reduction Act | Inflation Production Act |
| Not a recession | Recession |
| Classified | Unclassified, not classified documents held by Trump. When Biden is caught with classified documents there is nothing to see here -- Move along. Selective outrage. |
| Espionage | Trump holding on to unclassified/not classified documents |
| Hush money | Nondisclosure agreement |
| Constitutional crisis | Pure hysteria when democrats don't get what they want |
| (Republicans are) weaponizing, pouncing, etc. | Republicans are simply pointing out crazy democrat policies, actions, etc. The 'How dare you!' truth suppression technique. |
| Leadership Accelerator Program, BIPOC representation, diverse suppliers | Company discrimination against Whites and Asians |
| The World Economic Forum | Destroy economies |
| Be truthful, but not neutral | Silence conservatives, promote left-wing causes. Don't be objective. Propaganda -- not news. |
| False factual evidence | The term is an oxymoron. Fancy smear-term for inconvenient truthful facts that hurt liberal causes. |
| Baseless claim | Truth |
| Period! Full stop! | We're right. Inconvenient facts don't matter. The debate is over. You can't challenge us. |
