Opus 2024-378: Label Alergy

I like labels.  I find them very helpful if used properly and with awareness.  If someone is a Calvinist, tell me.  Don’t be afraid of it.  If someone is a Progressive, admit it.  I won’t say it is nothing to be ashamed of but it is an honest evaluation of who you are.  If someone is a Rino on eight out of ten topics then call him a Rino.  It is close enough.  

After you affix the label be courteous enough to listen to their defense.  It could be that what they mean by “Progressive” has nothing to do with the history of the word.  They may not know that the Progressive agenda, before they became “liberals”, before they became “Progressives” again was based on euthanasia of the low lifes of America.  For Margaret Sanger, founder of Planned Parenthood, that meant killing off black Americans.  Maybe they don’t know.  Tell them.  Then it is on their shoulders.

Use labels.  I am trying to fix a label on the mysterious cabal that is running the United States government from the shadows.  “Administrative state” is loaded and accurate but almost totally misunderstood.  “Shadow government” is again accurate but seems like the imagination of a fantasy writer.  I am ready to go with “Deep State”.  Whoever these people are they have a lot of power that was not given to them by the Constitution.  

Use labels.  Stop fixating on whether it is your favorite and go with what the person meant.  We need to stop wasting our energy and and sacrificing our unity on definitions of something that cannot be defined.  

The Deep State is the enemy not the person who prefers to call them the unelected elites.

If someone is on our side and uses a term you don’t like then give them the benefit of the doubt, buy them a cup of coffee and when you are finished planning the next get-out-the-vote drive talk about labels.  Plan on doing a lot of listening and laughing.

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