Words, words, what do they mean

"First confuse the vocabulary." The communist party leaders dutifully followed these words of instruction given to them by Lenin. The alpha instruction was meant to convey the cornerstone of communist control. The purpose was clear - confuse the language and confuse the masses. I’m for change. Lenin certainly knew the challenges of maintaining social order (he called social democracy) and he did so by disordering the language into propaganda perfection. I offer hope. Accurate thinking requires words of precise meaning. Communication between human beings is impossible without words whose precise meaning is generally understood. Confuse the vocabulary, and people do not know what is happening, they cannot communicate an alarm; they cannot achieve any common purpose. My vision is of one America not two Americas. Confuse the vocabulary and millions are helpless against a small, disciplined number who know what they mean when they speak. Lenin hoped to change Russia by moving the people to follow his vision from democracy to socialism and ultimately to communism. Do Obamamaniacs care about the meaning of their savior’s words?

Have you the American citizen noticed the vocabulary of politicians? Do the words clarity and consistency come to mind or do we find confused meanings rampant in our political culture? Are we consistently confounded by the speeches of our political leaders? If we all just hope together, will the politicians return to common sense straight talk? McCain is a self- proclaimed straight talker but he’s bent on anything but talking straight. He wants to hug the center of the road but fails to mention that he drives on the British side, the left side. Obama and Hillary say we should get off the road into the wilderness which leads down a dirt road into the town of socialistic living.
Why have we allowed language in this age of media and technology to become inundated with unintelligible sentences and speeches? So far communism has not been the force that created our culture of chaotic language. So far just our own wallowing in freedom of speech and personal enjoyment has left the language of the people languishing to the point that it has solemnly limped off the stage of ideas. Laziness in the public schools, by the politicians, the media and generations of families has broken down the communication of ides and speech to the point where the wheels of wisdom have fallen off.

The average citizen listens to the politicians in the same manner in which an art lover views abstract art. Since the visual represents nothing specific, the viewer must interpret and apply his or her own meaning. What does hope, change, unite mean? Also, what do rights, work, middle class and democracy really mean? Are the literate, questioning and intelligent leftovers such a small number that they now only communicate amongst themselves? What is most alarming is that those who only have the use of words without meaning cannot communicate amongst themselves. This election season, wispy words are garnering votes. Since every vote counts for a politician, the broader the language, the more useless are clear and concise, proper words. No doubt words are important but what they mean is even more important. What a candidate says and what a voters hears should be a meeting of minds. "In the beginning was the Word," how many of us even know what that means?