I believe fundamentally in the power of the spoken word.

Absolutely.

That's why we have a podcast.

Well, it can change hearts and minds.

Words are very important.

Some might say the most important.

Of course.

How else would we communicate our ideas effectively?

How else would you reach people?

Be able to change their minds and affect change.

Better than a thousand empty words is one that brings peace.

Yes. And I think the Democratic Party has been struggling with their words as of late. And this is something that I think

a lot of people have noticed. The Democratic Party has been, as we'll talk about throughout the

episode, hemorrhaging support for a variety of reasons. And there's one faction among the sort of center left in this country that thinks the Democratic Party just needs to say things slightly differently.

And then a landslide is incoming.

Well, yeah, because it's not it's not the core of the message that anyone cares about ever.

It's like the specific one word you change when you talk about that message. It's not the core of the message. It's not the many contradictions that voters clearly see in the way that you talk and the way that you act. It's not the policies that you hold because nobody cares about that, obviously. And it's not the way in which your message is connected to those policies. It is just specific words that make it so voters say, oh, I'm voting for the fascist now. Yep, just, oh, I'm checking out. I want the, I want the ice and the breaking in the suburbs. And as we know, of course, Trump focus groups, everything he says, to make sure the words he says are correct. Of course, today I am referencing the list of blacklisted words that third way, a sort of think tank

organization out of D.C. put out. They have some ideas for what Democrats should cut out from

their vocabulary, quote unquote, woke words. These are the same people that did that centrist

welcome fest a couple months back where they had like Alyssa Slokkin and Richie Torres and the

abundance guys talk about just doing the same thing still.

Yeah, yeah. So among the blacklisted words, according to Third Way, are things like privilege, violence as an environmental violence, dialogueing, triggering, microaggression, holding space, body shaming, subverting norms, systems of oppression,

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