BARK's Yelps

Clinton was replaced by an ultra-conservative? Who, pray tell?
Bush is not an ultra-conservative by any stretch of the imagination, young whipper-snapper. He's a neo-con, a globalist and a fascist, but I most certainly would not sully the name of "conservative" by including his in the roll call.
That said, good luck kid: my generation said the same thing when we were your age.

Hey Bayou Vixen,
I appreciate your comments and understand what you are saying. I have already posted a thing about neo cons and conservatives.

Political dialogue is so garbled by rhetoric today that speaking clearly is almost impossible. Our words are near meaningless today.

I suppose in this context I mean ultra realist more properly.

This is true, but also think of a word like Patriot. Screw asking people what a patriot is, ask them who some were. Lacking knowledge of what a patriot really is is via lacking understanding of the word.

Now politicians and spin doctors get a hold of it and the word means nothing what it did before, however it still has the same emotive weight.

To continue with patriot. I forget but I think it was Adams in this instance. Someone asked him why a policy must be enacted if it was going to bring hard times. He said that it offered a brighter future. The guy replied back that they will be dead by then. This struck our founding father as one of the most unpatriotic things ever.

To say to hell with the future is to damn our own nation. Policies which show brutish resolution at the expense of future relations is, by the standards the idea 'patriotism' enveloped at our founding, unpatriotic.

Now, how does the word itself jive with the modern application as we have today?

Defense department.
Foreign services.
Iraqi Freedom.

Our most sucessful and influential people today are whom?

What did Orwell say was being removed for the newest Ingsoc dictionary?

Verbs. Why? An idea is just an idea until it is put into practice. With no verbs to practice the idea then the aplication to the real world dies. The idea only lives in the minds of a few.

If we remove the practices that ensure liberty ie. privacy then PR can redefine it.

It is liberty as long as you are doing right. Isn't that what they say. So what if they tap your phones if you got nothing to hide

I have written this before, but it was a lot longer. Shortening this down sucks some sap out. What it really forms out to be is that the old ideas of xenophobia are dying out. alot due to the internet. The young people in Iran made a move that was anti-xenophobic. If that is fair to use as a word here. The young people voted for reform.

Young people here are voting for reform as we speak.

Now did the greatest generation change the world...

Yes.

It did.

Bayou, you said, "That said, good luck kid: my generation said the same thing when we were your age."

And you did. Black people can vote. Women are free to become sex objects or presidents. You shook the consciousness of this nation and changed the rules, laws, and morals. What more were you hoping for?