Terms of Endearment? What's in a Politically Correct Word?

There are many terms thrown around our political landscape in the United States that many people have just accepted. I will attempt to define some of these terms as I see them. In defining terms we must remember that words are ever evolving and what once meant one thing can eventually mean something else. This is called the stipulated meaning. Let’s look at a few of these. 

1. Politically Correct: this is the big one because all the others fall under it. What do these two words mean when joined? They mean the acceptable way of stating what could be seen as an undesirable thing by covering up the true meaning and thus minimizing the offensiveness.
2. Abortion: the killing of an innocent, defenseless human being.
3. Pro Choice: one who condones the killing of an innocent, defenseless human being because it is inconvenient for the mother.
4. Pro Life: one who defends the right to life of the innocent, defenseless human being even if it does inconvenience the life of the mother.
5. Judicial Activist: a judge who could care less what the Constitution of the United States says or what the people want and makes new laws base on his opinion or international law. A judges job is to interpret law not make it.
6. His/Her: this is how we grammatically don’t offend women.
7. ----- Challenged: when you find a word in front of this word you know that the person is really skirting the issue. A vertically challenged person is really just short. A mentally challenged person is dumb and so forth.
8. Progressive: one who believes in bigger government and higher taxes along with segregation of the races by use of the term multi-culturalism, morality is relative. Left-wing.
9. Multi-culturalism: the acceptance of all cultures and cultural practices as morally equal. This is in contrast with assimilation or social integration.
10. Assimilation or Social Integration: out of many one.
11. Conservative: one who believes in smaller government and lower taxes along with more individual liberty to make moral choice accepting that all moral choices are not equal and have consequences. Right-wing
12. Independent: one who is not sure what they think politically and are open to being convinced.
13. Libertarian: one who is for very small government, lower taxes and allowing for moral choice without personal consequences no matter what happens to society as a whole. Extreme Right-wing
14. Socialist: one who wants the government to be involved in insuring that all people live at the same level of comfort regardless of their efforts, higher taxes and distribution of wealth. Most socialist hide behind the term Progressive. Extreme Left-wing
15. Main Stream Media: information originating from a left-wing point-of-view. The larger media outlets such as most major TV networks.
16. Right-Wing Media: talk radio and Fox News. Notice there is no Left-Wing Media this is due to the fact that they hide behind the term Main Stream Media.

These are just some of the political terms we use when discussing politics in America. This is by no means exhaustive and I am sure that many of you will disagree with my definitions, just consider me definitionally challenged.