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November 16, 2020
Political, Economic and Pop-Culture Terms

Defined here are political, economic and pop-culture terms as I understand them. To understand each other, we must use make an effort to understand the intended meaning of the words used. Would it be too much for people to use words precisely? Probably.
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Term
Intended meaning and to whom
Anarchist

Cancel Culture

New Democrat
This terms means anything the speaker wants. Al From, founder of the Democratic Leadership Council [2000ish] is sometimes referred to as the intellectual godfather of the New Democrats. He emphasizes opportunity, responsibility and community, and serves up phrases like "modernization of liberalism," "forging a third way," and "empowering government over bureaucracy". Paul Begala, a political consultant has said that Clinton offered "modified populism."
Classical Liberal

The Founding Fathers (i.e. Jefferson, Adams, etc.) can be called this.
Note how the term "liberal" has been redefined over time caused the need to differentiate different modern uses of the word liberal.
Communist

Conservative

Simply, a person or group that wants to preserve that which is good.
Also: Slow to change; see {}
Inclusive

Left

Liberal

This word is used in so many ways as to be meaningless unless qualified. In these pages it means "for liberty", freedom of speech and the rights expressed in the US Bill of Rights.

To some, it might mean "open-minded". Be careful to qualify the word if used.

See further thoughts in {Liberal_Meaning}

Nazi - National Socialist party. See also Socialism

Neo-Conservative

Neo-Liberal

What contemporary liberal are. See progressives.

Orwellian

Describes a situation, idea, or condition that George Orwell identified as being inimical to the welfare of a free-society. See his fictional novels, particularly his political novel Nineteen Eighty-Four.

See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orwellian

Progressive
Because the term "liberal" has been given a bad connotations, some contemporary, that is neo-liberals, have started calling themselves progressive.

Paleolithic Liberals

To some, these are people who will stick with the interest groups come hell or high water, as in blind-obedience to unions.

Right

Sobriquet

Socialism

Useful Idiots.

From Wikipedia, the free on-line encyclopedia:

In political jargon, the term "useful idiot" was used during the Cold War by certain anticommunists to describe communists in western countries (particularly in the United States). The implication of the insult was that the communist in question was naïve, and that he or she was being cynically used by the Soviet Union or another Communist state, thus unwittingly being a traitor to his or her home country.

The term is sometimes claimed to have been coined by Vladimir Lenin to describe those western reporters and travelers who would endorse the Soviet Union and its policies in the West. However, no reference to a communist being called a "useful idiot" was made in the United States until 1948, and not until decades later would the attempts to attribute the phrase to Lenin be made. Lenin never wrote it in any published document, no one has claimed to have heard him say it first hand, and it contradicts the opinions expressed in Lenin's published documents in reference to the Comintern.

http://www.teriobrien.com/usefulidiots/default.asp

Values:
What are your values? What do politicians mean when they say "…. values…"? What is important to you? Premise: Values are everything. A person’s values, or lack of, will in large part determine what they do.

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