Political Language

There is no excuse for not discovering and understanding things like logical axioms, introspective epistemology, the basic existence of consciousness (in the sense of realizing that it is an objectively existing, absolutely certain thing and not in the sense of passively experiencing consciousness while never realizing these truths about it) no matter what words one is familiar with or whether one even knows words at all.  No one needs to know words like logic, truth, consciousness, and knowledge to actually know what each of these things is.  They are already relying on them even if they do not recognize it.  For other matters, though, social experience will likely be needed to prompt awareness of the topics so that logical truths about them can be identified, but some people, especially in arenas like politics, might conflate words with ideas and thus misunderstand both.

Liberals can be among the absolute most stupid people when it comes to naming concepts, regularly giving objectively misleading names to philosophical ideas that their opponents will rage against even when, in select cases, they might actually agree.  People who are too irrationalistic to themselves distinguish words, their perceptions of words, and the ideas behind them are of course fools, but to intentionally or neglectfully continue to assign words that seem to be communicating something other than the intended concepts is also idiotic.  There are times where the proposed definition of something as described by certain liberals might be invalid, such as when they say that stereotyping or singling out men for mistreatment is not sexism (when even the slightest stereotyping of anyone on the basis of gender is sexism, no matter who they are), but in such cases, the words might not be problematic at all--sexism suggests that it is dealing with all gender-based discrimination as opposed to just that directed towards women.

For words that are misleading as oppose to just commonly misunderstood, like sexism, one would be able to find multiple examples from the past few years alone.  What at least the less irrational liberals mean by "defund the police," a phrase popularized in 2020, is not to remove all funding from the police so that there are no more active police officers, but to lessen their funding so that more resources can go towards other measures that might more directly help people.  On its own, the phrase is unclear as to whether it refers to total defunding or just a shift of emphasis to other services to help communities, which would only entail a lesser defunding.  Another example is how some liberals might be proponents of anti-work philosophy, which sounds like it is a philosophy of the literal glorification of laziness even when the phrase is only being used to refer to something else: opposition to contemporary American capitalism with all of its problems.

However, the same conservatives who might laugh or become enraged at a word like "anti-work" might complain about how their boss underappreciates them or does not pay them in a way that matches their tenure or skill.  In one context they might lash out at the words to make themselves look "conservative enough" in public just because a liberal uttered them, and in another context they might understand or embrace some of the same concepts, such as workplace reform throughout America.  Like plenty of liberals, plenty of conservatives are too irrational to look past words to the ideas that are true or false no matter.  They look for trigger words or phrases in accordance to what other conservatives warn them about and then pounce.  Either they are making assumptions about concepts based upon the arbitrary words assigned to them or they are emotionalistically ignoring what they have already realized for the sake of political or personal zeal.

All of these examples are only from the political subcategory of language, part of a broader trend where non-rationalists look to words instead of directly to reason and the concepts reason governs.  Words are random constructs to communicate these things, not the things themselves.  Words can seem strange even when the thing they refer to is intimately familiar or accessible to all people.  Politics is not the very foundation of all things despite being treated as it was by many people, and in their emotionalistic haste and stupor, they sometimes make the most asinine kind of mistakes when it comes to confusing words for ideas and only using words to inflame someone against another group of people that is also doing the same thing.  Conservatives and liberals have lots of the same types of irrationalism in common.  Their use of language exemplifies this as do many other things.