How Language is Being Twisted by Power — and Why It Matters

 📝 Euphemisms at War:

 How Language is Failing Us from Both Ends

Surreal digital painting of red and blue figures tearing apart the word 'TRUTH' in a foggy battlefield.

Everyone loves to drag the other side for their lies.
“The Right’s full of propaganda!”
“The Left’s allergic to reality!”

And you know what?
They’re not equally guilty — but they’re both making a mess of the language.

Because while one side’s out here calling book bans “freedom,”
the other’s decided “dead” is too upsetting,
so now we’re saying ‘unalived’ like we’re whispering about Voldemort in a middle school cafeteria.

But here’s the real difference:
 One side lies to control you.
The other lies because they’re afraid of upsetting you.
And neither one brings us closer to the truth.

This isn’t about partisan balance.
It’s about the death of clarity — and how we’re all paying the price.

🟥 The Right: Cruelty with a Smile

Let’s be blunt: the modern GOP doesn’t lie to spare your feelings.
They lie to protect power — and they’ve mastered the art of euphemism as a weapon.

  • “Entitlement reform” — actually means cutting Social Security and Medicare.

  • “School choice” — translates to defunding public education and funneling kids into privatized, often religious alternatives.

  • “Election integrity” — means fewer voters and more excuses.

  • “Family values” — means their definition of family, your loss of autonomy.

  • “Protecting children” — increasingly means censorship, surveillance, and repression.

This is rebranded authoritarianism:
Take something cruel, name it something nice, and repeat it until people forget what it used to mean.

 

🟦 The Left: Soft Serve Denial

Now let’s not pretend the Left gets a free pass here.

They’re not spreading authoritarianism — but they are undermining clarity, often in the name of compassion. The result? A growing fog where meaning used to be.

  • “Unalived” — death, filtered through TikTok terms-of-service trauma.

  • “Neurodivergent moment” — sometimes used to excuse bad behavior, not explain it.

  • “Lived experience” — powerful, but increasingly used to shut down discussion, not deepen it.

  • “BIPOC” — meant to center, but often collapses nuance and flattens real differences.

  • “Emotional labor” — once a feminist concept, now used to describe literally anything annoying.

  • “Unsheltered” — the post-post-“homeless” euphemism that sounds polite while people freeze on the street.

Here’s a wild thought:
Maybe people in these situations don’t need a new name.
 Maybe they just need help.

The Left keeps softening the language as if that’ll soften the crisis.
But let’s be real:

Facts don’t care about your feelings.
Not just your feelings — anybody’s.
And that includes the Right, who love that phrase… right up until the facts hurt their own delicate myths.

These aren’t euphemisms for truth — they’re avoidance rituals.

 Because facing reality is hard.
But calling it something cuter doesn’t make it go away.

 

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