TUMPED OVER

Homeowners can be upside down in their mortgages, but did you know that words can be turned upside down, too?

There is some serious redefinition going on across the American landscape as words take on new meaning.

INSURANCE.
Say I'm from Colorado and last month my house was swept away in the flood.  So today I made a call to buy flood insurance.  Would it be "insurance" that I wanted?  No, I would be looking for reimbursement.

On the other hand, "insurance" is buying into a pool of people against the day of disaster.  Companies who cover that possibility calculate their risk and figure a mathematical model that works.  That's business.

Now the word "insurance" means something else when you order companies to cover pre-existing conditions.  No matter how worthy the intent, it is no longer "insurance", but rather an unprofitable gamble.  Surely everyone realizes this will drive insurance companies out of business and therefore complete the goal of making Uncle Sam the single payer.  Is that the nirvana that we want?

EXTREMISTS.
There was a time when extremists were enemies whose destructive ideology was reason-prohibitive.  There was therefore no point in talking, but now apparently we can reason with Iranians...just not Republicans.

Neville Chamberlain tried to reason with Hitler and we know how that ended.  In a swell of arrogance, we think we can visit with the "softer" Iranian President and just by the strength of our charisma, he will drop all that he believes and act nice.  Decades of barbarity will fall away like snow in the sun.

Well, extremists come in lots of flavors, but they are NOT countrymen whose opposition is born of a conviction that our country is being taken to the abyss by spending, dissolution of capitalism, and making nice with REAL extremists.

CONSTITUTIONALITY.

Some may think the Supremes said Obamacare was a constitutional healthcare plan that allowed government to require adherence.  Nope.  The high court said it was ONLY constitutional if we redefine it as a tax.

But we had read the proponent's lips.  All along he said it WASN'T a tax.
So when the high court says we can be ordered to comply as long as it's a tax, we cheered "HOORAY!  We get to tax ourselves!"

And constitutionality takes it on the chin.

LAW OF THE LAND.
This term is a piece of cake to tump over.  Don't like the law?  Ignore it.  What do you do with DOMA (Defense of Marriage Act)?  We just don't defend it or enforce it.  Immigration law?  Just order agents to ignore/release illegals.  What about sending guns to Mexican drug cartels...or prosecuting voter abuse...or any number of issues?  No worries.  But on the other hand, be sure to sue individual states like Arizona (immigration) and North Carolina (voter registration).

Laws aren't effective if you don't keep 'em.  Executive orders come in handy.

TERRORISM.
No brainer.  We already know that's not really terrorism, but really an Overseas Contingency Operation.

RACIST.
Here's the grand PooPah of all redefinitions.  It lassos half the country to call the other half "racist" if they don't align with the administration.  Gather together the height of this illogical thinking that says Republicans are racist:

The Republican Party was founded on an anti-slavery plank to FREE the slaves. 

Republicans initiated, supported, and accomplished the repeal of slavery.

Republicans then wrote/passed legislation to give rights to black citizens... 

the 13th (abolishing slavery), 14th (due process/equal protection under law), 

and 15th (voting rights) amendment.  Democrats fought these.

Republican Abraham Lincoln fought a war to free slaves.  But between the time 

Lincoln was elected/inaugurated, seven Southern Democratic states seceded 

because they knew slavery was about to be over.

Lincoln was killed by John Wilkes Booth, a Democratic activist.

After the war when two black Republicans were elected, it was Democrats 

who founded the KKK and then Democrats who wrote the "Jim Crow" laws.

All the water hoses turned on black peaceful protestors in the South in the 60's 

were Democrats like Lester Maddox, George Wallace, and Bull Connor.

I looked up "sheet anchor".  It means "a source of aid in time of emergency or danger".  This LINK  is to an 8 minute video which articulates this irony of party definition.  

So if word meanings have been turned upside down, is this helpful to the country?

All this CHANGE is sucking the HOPE right out of our future and we are cooperating in our own demise.  America, your country is not your nanny and it cannot provide everything you have a "right" to have...no matter how righteous such a proposition might seem.  In a perfect world people would have healthcare and a bigscreen and truffles to go around, but this is not a perfect world.  And we are NOT all looking to go into Assisted Living...are we?

The ultimate irony is that NO socialistic society has ever been a friend to the poor.  And capitalism (with all her flaws) is still the best way to help the most people advance in a society.