Political correctness is a fascinating expression, since it seems to sum up all that is weak, cowardly and lazy in human beings when they are considering how to exercise their right to vote. To be politically correct means that we do not judge any political proposition, but refer instead to what we are led to believe is currently popular.
It is weak in that, in going along with what is proposed, we are too feeble to make up our own mind on whatever point it may be, but prefer to go along with what is put about as being generally accepted. It is cowardly in that we thereby allow others to decide for us, often on vital matters where we should stand up for such principles as justice and democracy. It is lazy in that acceptance also means that we have not taken the trouble to think about what any such course of action might mean and what its effects might be.
Political correctness is a terrible disease which afflicts most democracies, as well as all tyrannies, and it is our bounden duty to fight against it. Just because large numbers of our fellow citizens are willing to be weak, cowardly and lazy not only does not mean that we should allow ourselves to be infected, but also that we should do what we can to bring uncomfortable facts to the notice of our said fellow citizens.
The general effect of political correctness is to hand over our minds and our future to the most powerful (usually because best financed) propagandists. Vast sums are squandered on campaigns to persuade us that 'black is white', that 'war is peace' and (more insidiously and more dangerously) that 'might is right' as is constantly trumpeted by the imperialist Bush régime (and many of its predecessors) and its Zionist backers.
Such propagandists have made huge numbers of ill-educated folk across the USA believe that their country (even under such dishonest rulers) is a beacon of virtue and that its values must be forced upon a reluctant world whatever it may genuinely want and/or need. These same citizens of the USA are also led to believe that their corrupt rulers are constantly doing everything that they can for the ultimate good of those whom they are oppressing and whom they are trying to turn into slavish clones of their own down-trodden subjects.
Our own electorate here in France fell for the blandishments of Mr Sarkozy when he separately (and contradictorily) promised its heart's desire to each of so many individual sectors of the population during his election campaign, and large numbers of voters are now bitterly regretting their choice. They never had the excuse that clear warnings were not given by many voices, from otherwise sharply differing and even discordant groups of critics. This now makes it hard to resist the temptation to say "I told you so" to those who have finally come to complain about some of his worst (and entirely predictable) 'reforms'.
All this arose from a passive (and pathetic) acceptance of what was set out as being politically correct, and it is sickening to hear candidates in any electoral contest misusing key words, such as 'freedom' and 'democracy' while their intentions are very obviously to ignore and trample on our modern understanding of such concepts.
We all know the expression caveat emptor which warns us that if we buy something we are the loser if we buy something which does not live up to what we expect of it, and we should adopt a new warning for voters, which we could call caveat elector. Promises are easy to make, but often much harder to enforce, and every voter should be sufficiently strong, courageous and willing to make the effort to subject everything offered by any candidate to his or her individual analysis. Without this democracy is an empty concept whereby it becomes a commodity which can be bought by the wealthiest using false money to rob the voters of their rights.
We all have to be aware that political correctness is often used as a useful tool to enable the unscrupulous to lead us to throw away our rights to their advantage, and that no political proposal can ever serve as the premise to any argument unless fully proven.
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