From "death tax" to "job creators," the public has been saturated with prefabricated words and phrases that reshapes the thinking of millions of people in an Orwellian way. Teachers, police, bus drivers and firefighters became "special interests" while mega-corporations became "people" who were being "deprived of their rights."
But something was different this year. This was the year that the people came up with some words of their own, outside the corporate- and billionaire-funded think tanks of conservatism. For the first time in many years, the right-wing warriors of language ran into heavy resistance. That's an important development that should be celebrated - and repeated.
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