“Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none.” Thomas Jefferson, First Inaugural Address.
George Orwell once wrote that if “thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.” He derided his contemporaries for how their use and abuse of the term fascism emptied the word of any meaning. The subsequent inability to define fascism degraded it “to the level of a swearword,” and a slur for use against anyone or anything deemed undesirable.
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