Source: Common Sense
by Paul Jacob
“The Democrats lost a presidential election where the biggest issue, shared by both contenders, was The Other Side Is Off-putting, Icky and Crazy. Third Way, a think tank pushing for ‘moderate’ policy, almost acknowledged this in a widely-shared memo: ‘For a party that spends billions of dollars trying to find the perfect language to connect to voters, Democrats and their allies use an awful lot of words and phrases no ordinary person would ever dream of saying.’ So it’s not without reason that Third Way suggests Democrats drop the ‘therapy-speak,’ for example — words like privilege, violence (‘as in ‘environmental violence’’), othering, etc. Also to be nixed? ‘Seminar room language,’ featuring jargon like subverting norms, systems of oppression, heuristic, etc.” (08/27/25)