10 CONSERVATIVE PHRASES RIGHT-WINGERS HAVE NO BUSINESS USING.
We’ve all heard these conservative phrases, like ‘right to life’ and ‘family values,’ But their definitions aren’t very good…
1. Right To Life
What They Mean: People should have a right to survive, so long as they haven’t been born yet.
What It Should Mean: People should have a right to life, so we should enact legislation that ensures people (particularly the ones who’ve already been born) can survive in the world. No more defunding Planned Parenthood or attempting to derail health care legislation. We need true universal health care; a single-payer plan akin to the one proposed by Bernie Sanders. We should declare that the death penalty is cruel and unusual punishment. We should spend less on war and more on helping our citizens out of poverty with programs like SNAP, WIC, etc. We should raise the minimum wage so people working those jobs can survive and not starve in their apartments while the power company shuts their lights off.
2. Take Our Country Back
What They Mean: America should revert back to the way things were in the 1950’s, before evil Kenyan socialists like Barack Obama were even born, and before gays could come out of hiding and publicly express their love for each other.
What It Should Mean: We should take back control of Congress from special interests. We should take America’s labor laws back to a time before the egregious wealth of the billionaire class began stifling the opportunities of the people and laying waste to American ingenuity. We should take our country back to the era where Republicans could agree with Democrats without being labeled a “RINO” and getting shoved under a bus, an era before conservatives became engulfed in a bubble of hyper-partisanship.
3. Class Warfare
What They Mean: Any effort to raise taxes on America’s wealthiest citizens and/ or on corporations, even if by only a smidge, and any effort to enact legislation that America’s millionaires and billionaires aren’t keen on.
What It Should Mean: America’s wealthiest citizens using said wealth to buy congressmen and shuffle around laws so they can personally prosper while everyone else suffers is a declaration of war on the poor and middle class.
4. Family Values
What They Mean: We should discourage homosexuality, marriage equality, and divorce, while shaping our laws in such a way that America becomes a Christian theocracy.
What It Should Mean: We should work on legislation that helps American families with policies that American families would value. Universal health care, universal childcare, public education, a true investment into infrastructure, and either Hillary Clinton’s college tuition proposal or Bernie Sanders’ plan for universal college tuition… all of that would be a good start.
5. Illegal Immigration
What They Mean: A (brown) person who comes to America without adequate paperwork, “taking jobs” that no American citizen actually wants or is wiling to do.
What It Should Mean: An American corporation that moves jobs out of the country and parks massive chunks of their wealth in offshore bank accounts to evade paying taxes, all while expecting to profit off of the American people.
We’ve all heard these conservative phrases, like ‘right to life’ and ‘family values,’ But their definitions aren’t very good…
1. Right To Life
What They Mean: People should have a right to survive, so long as they haven’t been born yet.
What It Should Mean: People should have a right to life, so we should enact legislation that ensures people (particularly the ones who’ve already been born) can survive in the world. No more defunding Planned Parenthood or attempting to derail health care legislation. We need true universal health care; a single-payer plan akin to the one proposed by Bernie Sanders. We should declare that the death penalty is cruel and unusual punishment. We should spend less on war and more on helping our citizens out of poverty with programs like SNAP, WIC, etc. We should raise the minimum wage so people working those jobs can survive and not starve in their apartments while the power company shuts their lights off.
2. Take Our Country Back
What They Mean: America should revert back to the way things were in the 1950’s, before evil Kenyan socialists like Barack Obama were even born, and before gays could come out of hiding and publicly express their love for each other.
What It Should Mean: We should take back control of Congress from special interests. We should take America’s labor laws back to a time before the egregious wealth of the billionaire class began stifling the opportunities of the people and laying waste to American ingenuity. We should take our country back to the era where Republicans could agree with Democrats without being labeled a “RINO” and getting shoved under a bus, an era before conservatives became engulfed in a bubble of hyper-partisanship.
3. Class Warfare
What They Mean: Any effort to raise taxes on America’s wealthiest citizens and/ or on corporations, even if by only a smidge, and any effort to enact legislation that America’s millionaires and billionaires aren’t keen on.
What It Should Mean: America’s wealthiest citizens using said wealth to buy congressmen and shuffle around laws so they can personally prosper while everyone else suffers is a declaration of war on the poor and middle class.
4. Family Values
What They Mean: We should discourage homosexuality, marriage equality, and divorce, while shaping our laws in such a way that America becomes a Christian theocracy.
What It Should Mean: We should work on legislation that helps American families with policies that American families would value. Universal health care, universal childcare, public education, a true investment into infrastructure, and either Hillary Clinton’s college tuition proposal or Bernie Sanders’ plan for universal college tuition… all of that would be a good start.
5. Illegal Immigration
What They Mean: A (brown) person who comes to America without adequate paperwork, “taking jobs” that no American citizen actually wants or is wiling to do.
What It Should Mean: An American corporation that moves jobs out of the country and parks massive chunks of their wealth in offshore bank accounts to evade paying taxes, all while expecting to profit off of the American people.
