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froggtongue Well said.
We have reached a point where a lot of political wrangling is merely hurling words at each other without the slightest care for meaning - let alone respect for anyone holding opposing views.
In the end the words become as meaningless as "woke" has become; a mere cliche. As vacuous as a 1980s company "mission statement" but worse that that, because if given any meaning at all, it is only what its user wants it to mean, and usually as a cheap insult.
There is nothing new in that misuse of language, of course. I've a vague memory Lewis Carroll lampoons it in his 19C novel
Alice in Wonderland, with Humpty-Dumpty telling Alice that words mean whatever he (H-D) wants them to mean.
Though it's probably not helped by political parties using their concepts as their party names....
