I wish I had a better language with which to communicate in this blog. I must try to avoid all words whose meaning has been too corrupted to be useful. For example, war=peace. Whatever reason our President has for sending troops to the Iraq area at present, and whatever your opinions are regarding those actions, they are unlikely to result in the President's stated objective, peace. So I find it hard to use the words war or peace, when these opposites apparently mean the same thing. And war has been used in such concepts as "war on poverty", "war on (some) drugs" etc. I don't want to kill poor people, nor do I want to kill users of some drugs, so why declare war on them?
As for words which describe political thoughts, such as: right, left, communist, socialist, statist, conservative, neo-conservative, liberal..........; they have also been so twisted and perverted as to be without meaning.
I must, however, continue to use freedom and liberty according to my definitions. In the words of our President, apparently, freedom=slavery. NO! I won't give it up. Freedom, to an American, used to mean a somewhat limited right to live his life as he wished. But after Osama Bin Laden et al took down the world trade towers, our President said that was because Bin Laden hated freedom, so our President outlawed most of our freedoms for the duration of the "war on terror", which the same President said would never end.
As for which political terms I intend to use in this blog, I'll try nanny-state, a government which orders citizens to obey "for their own good" and/or police state, a government which maintains large numbers of people with badges and guns to force citizens to bend to the will of the government, again "for their own good". I may refer to those people with badges and guns as overseers, as this is the proper term for the managers of slaves.
Some last comments on language. "Czar" is a constitutionally prohibited title in America. I will not use it without quotes. "Entitlement" is a government mandated "right" to steal the earnings of one's neighbor. Again I won't use it without quotes.
There are many more words which have been perverted, but I'll start with these.