The language we use

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My Mom (a Repub) sent me a complimentary email regarding an article I wrote called "The So-Called Liberal Media" http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=109&topic_id=22145&mesg_id=22145

She is a typical middle of the road FAUX Repub who still buys the notion that the Pugs stand for smaller gov and lower taxes.
Anyway she did reply that she liked the article but had a problem with giving the Government more "power".
This got me thinking.
I was trying to express how the corporate's control the media and she interpretted my solution as me wanting "more government".
Hummm...now I have an idea for a comeback to all those who say we want "bigger government". We need to state no; we want a "shift of governmental control". Out of the hands of the big corporates and back into the hands of the people, as our founders envisioned.

A citizen controlled Government and far greater citizen control of the media.

"We the people..."

[Comandante_Subzero]

1. The Illusion of American Politics

Sure, the question is always how...we need to unseat the people in power - peacefully if they allow that. But IMO that's what we need to be organising for, not all these subsidiary causes that divide our energies. Not how to vote them out for a while - they always come back - but how to put them out of business for good. How to obtain economic democracy - popular control of the means of production.

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2. 2 sources relevant to this discussion

1. Orwell, "Politics and the English Language"
2. Dye & Zeigler, "The Irony of Democracy"

2 is notable for predicting that any revolution in America would be right wing, racist, and religious fundamentalist, which is consistent with 2000 and afterward.