In other news, we find out that the Patriot Act pushed through after 9/11 wasn’t very patriotic. The Moral Majority was neither. The Holy Roman Empire wasn’t holy, Roman, or even much of an empire.

When I recently objected to one leftist’s “fascistification” of the world and asked for a definition, she pointed me to an essay about 11 characteristics of fascism. But none of it was about Mussolini’s economic plan. I said it sounded like Fascists were just anybody Marxists don’t agree with. She said no, Marxist is a well-defined technical word. Could have fooled me, there, for Marx himself laughed about being a Marxist.

Most of this attempt at expansion was in trying to convince me that Nazis are fascists, even though (last I checked) they actually have their own word. As do bigots, nationalists, jingoists, chauvinists, nativists, superpatriots, xenophobes, conservatives, racists, curmudgeons, libertarians, hippies and Trekkies.

English may be the richest language of all. Why then take such a marvelous tool for thought and dismantle it into impoverished Newspeak goo, so that all thinking comes out as blunt instrument? Next thing you know, we’ll all be asserting that war is peace, freedom is slavery, and ignorance is strength. And lost our sense of irony because we will have misdefined and lost what “irony” is.