The forbidden words are “vulnerable,” “entitlement,” “diversity,” “transgender,” “fetus,” “evidence-based” and “science-based.”
This administration is using 1984 as a how-to manual.
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This administration is using 1984 as a how-to manual.
Obama spent ever day of his tenure at war and bombing people with drones. Bill Clinton was very anti-immigration. Web and Rupert revealed how the CIA was funneling cocaine into the US from South and Central America.
This has been happening a long time. President Twitter's idiocy is just batshit insane enough that people yell about it now, but it's all there to make us angry and mad at one another. This is just another thing to make us angry. We are in the 24/7 hate.
For example - some people view borders as an institutional immorality. Nancy Pelosi has said that America goes from the 'Rocky Mountains down the Andes' and Hillary Clinton as openly called for a borderless North American society.
This represents an absolute and fundamental shift in view of citizenry, nationalism and identity.
Such views should be allowed in America surely - but should we allow people with 'extremist' agendas to integrate them subtly into our government documents etc.?
Those words are banned because they might be used to further a specific political agenda.
One could argue it's 'defence' instead of 'offence'.
Anyhow - I don't like it and I don't want to defend Trump ... but I do prefer efforts to keep things generally neutral.
They're not, but the Trump administration has been allowed to get to where it is through the abuse of an increasingly broken system.
Every administration puts policies into place that will last longer than the administration itself. For every administration you trust, that enables potential abuse, you have to ask yourself "Maybe I trust the current administration, but what about the next one?".
This is a point that I, and many others, tried to make during the Obama era. Unfortunately, few listened. Politicians themselves didn't care. Obama did a lot of wonderful things for the US, but he also centralized a lot of power into the White House, and look how that's turning out.
People are so easily tricked into believing the government forever has their best interest at heart, as long as the current person "in charge" is affiliated with their party. Democrats, in years past, enabled today's abuses of power. Republicans today, enabling the abuses of power for the years to come. It's as if the majority of voting citizens have zero ability to predict consequences.
djsumdog is right, the system has been broken for a long time. America is just coming to terms with the cultural shock of seeing it all play out at high speed instead of it being a slow boil. I am optimistic however, that this shock will end up being the wake-up call the US needed to start seriously fixing itself, so hope is not lost.
Neither of these are good options, but if I were president, I would view my primary job as keeping the government well functioning. Without congress doing there job, this means increasing the scope of the executive branch.