ORWELLIAN DOUBLESPEAK becomes the official language of DU

[ClericJohnPreston]

When it's members prove themselves so malleable, they actually fall before the illogic and manipulations of "SPIN".

I thought "1984" Orwellian "Doublespeak" was a nightmare vision of a fictional Totalitarian regime. Yet, it is alive and well here at the DU forums.

Are you all so desperate to win at all costs, that you actually now spin what a "win" means?

I thought Bush's , "WAR IS PEACE" and "KNOWLEDGE IS IGNORANCE" rhetoric was just a part of his Republican foisted nightmare. Now, I find that partisans on this board have accepted this pretzel logic in preference to truth.

The moment you have sunken to Orwellian politics and doublespeak, your "win" is a pyrrhic victory.

Being an Edwards supporter, I can honestly say that sometimes it is better to fight and lose, than never to have tried at all. It is only after some of these "victories", that anyone with perspective can see how we all have lost, if winning means we become what we hate.

Sorry, but in my proud VERY left Progressive view of the world, we have all lost when you are reduced to DOUBLESPEAK in order to claim a "WIN".

Sad, very sad.......