Republican ideologues, demagogue and “true believers” who have shut down their reasoning to buy the dogma have a tendency to create t3erms which have no inherent meaning, but which sound ominous. Or that other main tactic is to try to derogate denigrate, or attack people who disagree with them or programs they disagree with is to try to falsely attach labels like “socialist” or “communist “ just to disparate without thought.

An example of the former is their creation of the terms “deep state.” They created the term because the governmental structure of loyal governmental employee’s who believe in honoring their oath to defend the U.S. Constitution, in fulfilling their agencies’ function established by law gets in he way of the undemocratic and authorization goals of the political right. The “deep state” implies that there is a hidden conspiracy to undermine the U.S – A DELIBERATE, UTTER FALSEHIOOD!!!!!!!.

The other main tactic of the extreme right is to take terms which already have extremely negative connotations and attach them to people and programs they wish to defeat or silence. As an example, My extremely right wing grand-nephew call me a “communist.” On Facebook. That was a deliberate insult trying to shut me up, and it angered me deeply.

I felt obligated to point out to him that he did not even really know what communism is and is not, but that I DO. Having served in Berlin at the height of the Cold War, I saw what Communism was and did in East Berlin and how it was a threat to freedom and democracy. I also felt that to defeat Communism, one had to study what it said and did in order to find and use its own weakness against it: “Know thy enemy!” I also told him that his disrespect, ignorance, and mean-spiritedness were all offensive and repulsive.!!

My point is this: We MUST expose, intellectually and logically destroy any such attempts of the right to create, and/or attach false labels trying to attack and denigrate us. We must make it clear what they are trying to do and why