A key strategy of the traitorous, sedition Left in America and elsewhere is to corrupt and distort the meaning of words and language and employ such distortions in their ad hominem attacks on those who oppose them. Their intent is that the pejorative meaning of the negative terminology they use will rub off on the those they attack, without any critical reference to or examination of the actual meaning of the words they employ or how those words should be correctly applied and understood. Truth and fairness are never their concern.
All one has to do to blow the cover on this kind of deliberate deceit is to insist, first, that those who use such pejorative terms to describe another person or group be required to provide correct and thorough definitions of the words they use, and then, second, explain exactly how that definition applies to or describes the individual or group to whom it is applied.
Take for example the word “fascist” - a term commonly employed these days by the Left and their media propagandists to describe Donald Trump and his MAGA supporters. First, examine carefully the dictionary definitions of the word:
Britannica Dictionary definition of FASCISM
1 Fascism: a way of organizing a society in which a government ruled by a dictator controls the lives of the people and in which people are not allowed to disagree with the government
2: Very harsh control or authority
The stereotypical historical fascists, of course, were Adolf Hitler and his fanatical Nazi supporters:
- and history knows well what horror Nazi fascism perpetrated on the world:
Now, with the dictionary definition at hand and the historical results a matter of record, we know what fascism is - what the word means - and what it does - the horrific results the ideology has been shown to produce - may we now ask their attackers exactly how Donald Trump and his supporters are “fascists”?
What exactly have these people done, propose to do, or what is it they believe that makes them “fascists” as defined by the Britannica Dictionary and appallingly documented in recent history?
In particular, what about me? - a patriotic, law-abiding conservative who defends the Constitution and the rule of law it provides, supports Donald Trump and believes in Making America Great Again (MAGA). What makes me a fascist?
Hear that? It’s the thunderous sound of silence. Because they are intellectually, morally and spiritually corrupt, the Left, who have a perfect knowledge of their fraud, cannot provide honest answers to such a challenge. If there is any Leftist response at all, it will be just a repetition or variations of the same old slanderous ad hominem attacks. That is what they do and all they do.
Of course, those who use this kind of ad hominem attack strategy never expect to have their deceit revealed or directly challenged in this way. They never expect to have to define precisely the words they use or explain how those words apply to those they attack and accuse unjustly. They are in fact not seeking to persuade anyone capable of honest, critical, truth-oriented objective thinking, but are targeting their deceit at their intellectually, morally and spiritually troglodyte useful-idiot base - people they know will mindlessly buy into their lies and calumny and never bring to bear on such slander a single fair-minded, honest, truth-oriented, critical thought.
Needless to say, the slanderous, unsupported and unsupportable label of “fascist” is just one of a catalog of similar terms the Left regularly employs as they seek to defame their conservative opponents while making their appeal to the intellectual, moral and spiritual dregs of American society. Other such labels - all equally without substance and unsupportable in the real world - include “domestic terrorist” - a mother showing up at a school board meeting to protest the racist ideology her child is being taught in school - “threat to democracy”, and “election denier” - fully one-half of all Americans who believe there were irregularities in the 2020 election that need to be fully investigated so as to ensure our electoral process is free and fair.
Again, applying the same rigorous process of reasoning - demanding precise definitions and real-world proof of how the definitions apply to those the Left pins these labels on - will invariably reveal the corrupt, ad hominem nature of the Leftist argument as they continue their obsessive pursuit of absolute, dictatorial power:
The credibility of WHAT you argue is directly a function of HOW you argue.
Find the truth in the methodology of argument. The truth cuts its own way and can be argued for in an honest and open manner that does not insult the intelligence of those it seeks to persuade. Deceit cannot be so argued.
Given the manifest and invariable deceit and lawless corruption of the power-hungry American Left - people who are unbounded by any tradition, decent standard of intellect, morality or spirituality - I believe Jesus’s parable, found in Matthew 7:4-5 provides a perfect description of Leftist corruption:
“Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother’s eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye? How can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ when all the time there is a plank in your own eye? You hypocrite! First take the plank out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother’s eye.”
But the Left have no intention of removing the plank from their collective eye. Because they are corrupt, evil and focused fanatically on power, they do what they do deliberately, not inadvertently. There is not a smidgeon of good intentions or honesty in what they do. Accordingly, when the Left hurls at their adversaries accusations like “fascist!”, “domestic terrorist!”, “threat to our democracy!”, and “election denier”, you can know with certainty - and in the real world can objectively demonstrate - that they are themselves deliberately doing what they pretend to condemn in others.
Right vs. wrong, truth vs. lies, light vs. darkness, liberty vs. tyranny, good vs. evil.
Pick a side.
These are the times that try men’s souls…
Torquemada