What's an award? Why does it matter whether we call someone who breaks the law to enter the country

an illegal alien or an undocumented immigrant? What's the difference between a Christmas tree and a

holiday tree? It's just semantics, right? Yes. And no. It is just semantics, but semantics means

the meaning of words. Words exist so that we might discriminate one thing from another. Without words,

we have chaos. And it starts with the first words. A baby says mama to distinguish mommy from daddy.

Words shape how we think. They color how we view the world. No one understands this better than

the left. They are the masters of words because they know that words matter. The left has a special

gift for euphemisms. Soft words selected to sugarcoat harsh realities so as to make those harsh

realities easier for us to swallow. But these soft words are insidious. Their sole purpose is to

deceive. Race discrimination in hiring and college admissions is refashioned as the much nicer

sounding affirmative action. Who would ever oppose an affirmative action? Global warming, which can

be measured and challenged, has morphed into climate change, which means essentially nothing because

the climate is always changing. When Barack Obama became president, George Bush's war in

Afghanistan suddenly transformed into the far less ominous and threatening overseas contingency

operation. That's one way to try to end a war, just rename it. The examples are endless. There's

a new euphemism every week. In the make-believe world of leftist language, young criminals have

become justice involved to youth. Mandates and taxes are individual-shared responsibility payments.

Government spending becomes an investment. Wanting to keep more of your harder-and-money becomes

greed. Taking more of someone else's money is them paying their fair share. Opposing a

Democrat in the White House is obstruction. Opposing a Republican in the White House resistance.

In the name of diversity, the left enforces intellectual conformity. It censors opposing views

in the name of tolerance. And it labels all non-left views hate speech. Consider the ongoing

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