Reply #64: 'Freedom' is now used to sell all to the (formerly known as) electorate.

[JohnOneillsMemory]

Here is a great analysis of abusive language in *'s State of the Union speech in 2003.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/opinion/130534_focusecond13.html
(The Power of the Presidency Resides in Language)

One tactic is using puffy rhetoric that doesn't mean much and clouds rational thought.

And the call-it-the-opposite-of-what-it-is ploy works because the repetition of the name (even in criticism) has an absolute value that
wins minds.

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Ha!Almost turned ya into a freeper, hunh?