American political discourse has long revolved around a non-stop labeling game that often does more to obscure political realities than to elucidate them. Is it possible to explode the game?
The current struggle for control of the Democratic Party is intimately bound up with the labeling process. How it is resolved will affect the future of the nation.
Senator Bernie Sanders needs to address the most fundamentally divisive vocabulary of all, namely the twin dualities of “left vs. right” and “liberal vs. conservative.”
We have reached linguistic gridlock, in which bipartisan dialogue has been replaced by competing efforts to manipulate voters with loaded vocabularies. Nothing will change so long as Americans remain passive consumers of these vocabularies.
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