The Pew Research Center for the People & the Press recently surveyed a sampling of American folks on their reactions to a variety of popular buzzwords in the political space of late.
Which came first, the disdain for socialism or the Republican campaign to brand everything Obama proposes as socialist? It’s a bit re-assuring, though, to see that the term “progressive” so well received.
But how strange that Republicans have such a positive opinion of the phrase “civil liberties,” given that Republican leadership is up in arms that alleged, attempted terrorist Faisal Shahzad was read his Miranda Rights, and Faux-publican Joe Lieberman is trying to strip citizenship from people found to be palling around with foreign terrorist organizations. Civil liberties are an all or nothing proposition; you can’t grant them to some but not all.
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