{"id":1571042,"date":"2022-07-26T08:06:08","date_gmt":"2022-07-26T12:06:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1571042"},"modified":"2022-07-26T08:06:45","modified_gmt":"2022-07-26T12:06:45","slug":"the-lefts-response-to-failure-is-to-redefine-it-as-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-lefts-response-to-failure-is-to-redefine-it-as-success\/","title":{"rendered":"The Left\u2019s Response To Failure Is To Redefine It As Success"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fthe-lefts-response-to-failure-is-to-redefine-it-as-success%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1571042&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>In preparation for the close of the year\u2019s second economic quarter, the White House Council of Economic Advisers has already started the spin: We\u2019re not in a recession if we just redefine what a recession is.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile some maintain that two consecutive quarters of falling real GDP constitute a recession, that is neither the official definition nor the way economists evaluate the state of the business cycle,\u201d the supposedly nonpartisan group said in a blog <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/cea\/written-materials\/2022\/07\/21\/how-do-economists-determine-whether-the-economy-is-in-a-recession\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">post<\/a> on Thursday. <\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s doubtful the verbal smoke and mirrors will persuade the average Americans whose grocery bills keep growing as fast as their gas tanks empty. A <strong>recession <\/strong>is a sustained downturn in economic activity, and many Americans can feel it without knowing what the Q2 numbers are. But it\u2019s far from the first concept the left has simply redefined to deflect the consequences of their failed policies and ideas. <\/p>\n<p>One of their favorite words to redefine, apparently as \u201cfull and unchallenged political control,\u201d is <strong>democracy<\/strong>. When actual democratic processes are at work \u2014 such as when an elected majority votes not to pass a pet piece of legislation, or when issues such as abortion law are left to elected representatives of the people at the state level \u2014 leftists scream their favorite catchphrase and call it a \u201cthreat to democracy.\u201d They\u2019ve <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/01\/06\/actual-democracy-and-4-other-things-the-left-called-a-threat-to-democracy-besides-jan-6\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">levied<\/a> that smear at everything from our bicameral legislature to the Supreme Court to the other party in our two-party system. It\u2019s obvious they\u2019re not really talking about democracy in any honest sense of the word. When democracy is a threat to their power, it simply gets redefined.<\/p>\n<p>Another word that\u2019s undergone a 180-degree redefinition is <strong>racism<\/strong>. No longer is it considered racist to treat someone differently based on his or her skin color, and not racist to value all human beings equally. Instead, if you\u2019re not promoting theories that \u201cremedy \u2026 past discrimination [with] present discrimination,\u201d as critical race theorist Ibram X. Kendi <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2021\/01\/29\/netflix-sponsored-antiracist-grifter-ibram-kendi-supports-totalitarian-government\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">suggests<\/a>, you are clearly a racist according to the left\u2019s new dictionary. Do you believe in meritocracy? Racist. Think people are responsible for their own choices, and it\u2019s neither possible nor beneficial for the government to dole out equivalent outcomes to everyone by force? Doubly racist. The new liturgy says that true equality lies in teaching some children that they\u2019re part of a hopelessly oppressive system and other children that they\u2019re hopelessly oppressed.<\/p>\n<p>On the subject of pitting people against each other, the term \u201c<strong>vaccine<\/strong>\u201d has been ridiculously redefined to cover for the incompetence of the people who profit from them. After the shot that was promised to protect people from Covid transmission and infection failed to ward off either, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention simply changed the definition of \u201cvaccine\u201d to fit the narrative. \u201cA product that stimulates a person\u2019s immune system to produce immunity to a specific disease\u201d was quietly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.miamiherald.com\/news\/coronavirus\/article254111268.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">altered<\/a> to \u201ca preparation that is used to stimulate the body\u2019s immune response against diseases.\u201d Barely a week later, Merriam-Webster followed suit by <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2021\/10\/08\/merriam-webster-thought-police-just-changed-the-definition-of-anti-vaxxer-to-attack-opponents-of-government-mandates\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">changing<\/a> the definition of \u201canti-vaxxer\u201d from someone who opposes vaccines to someone who doesn\u2019t believe the government should mandate Covid shots.<\/p>\n<p>Just last week, as part of the trans-crazed campaign to redefine what a <strong>woman <\/strong>is, Merriam-Webster <a href=\"https:\/\/www.merriam-webster.com\/dictionary\/female\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">added<\/a> \u201chaving a gender identity that is the opposite of male\u201d to its definition of \u201cfemale.\u201d Categories such as \u201cmen\u201d and \u201cwomen\u201d that are based in biological reality don\u2019t suit the agenda that seeks to abolish those realities from minds and bodies. So rather than advocate their agenda within the bounds of reality, the left simply attempts to redefine reality itself. It\u2019s apparent in the push to call women by the objectifying terms \u201cpregnant persons,\u201d \u201cmenstruating people,\u201d etc. We saw it when then-Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson told Congress she couldn\u2019t define what a woman is, and it\u2019s obvious in the attempts to put confused men in women\u2019s prisons, shelters, and bathrooms. The reality of <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/06\/15\/there-is-one-pro-women-camp-in-american-politics-and-its-the-right\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">womanhood<\/a> is in the way, so it\u2019s being redefined out of existence.<\/p>\n<p>And while abortion advocates lately have been willing to defend the act of killing a baby in the womb <em>even <\/em>with the understanding that it takes a human life, for years they\u2019ve pushed their agenda by redefining an unborn <strong>baby <\/strong>as a \u201cclump of cells\u201d or some other dehumanizing description.<\/p>\n<p>On any of those topics and more, leftists and their allies in Big Tech also persistently redefine any dissenting opinions or perspectives as <strong>disinformation<\/strong>,<strong><em> <\/em><\/strong>using that disingenuous label to erase opposition from channels of discourse. <\/p>\n<p>Of course, many people who hear them prattle about \u201cdisinformation,\u201d \u201cbirthing persons,\u201d \u201canti-racism,\u201d \u201cthreats to democracy,\u201d and their host of other buzzwords know those words are nonsense. We can tell, as George Orwell <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2021\/04\/19\/10-politically-correct-but-factually-false-words-and-phrases-to-stop-using-immediately\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">wrote<\/a> in 1946, that \u201cpolitical language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>But, as he noted, \u201cthe worst thing one can do with words is to surrender them.\u201d The danger is in allowing these redefinitions of reality to be said, unchallenged, until enough people forget they could ever be challenged at all. <\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n<p>\n  Elle Reynolds is an assistant editor at The Federalist, and received her B.A. in government from Patrick Henry College with a minor in journalism. 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