{"id":7095,"date":"2015-06-12T13:48:51","date_gmt":"2015-06-12T13:48:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2015\/06\/12\/on-disenfranchise-and-hillarys-will-to-power\/"},"modified":"2015-06-12T13:48:51","modified_gmt":"2015-06-12T13:48:51","slug":"on-disenfranchise-and-hillarys-will-to-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2015\/06\/12\/on-disenfranchise-and-hillarys-will-to-power\/","title":{"rendered":"On ‘Disenfranchise’ and Hillary’s Will to Power"},"content":{"rendered":"

According to the WSJ<\/a>, Hillary Clinton thinks that Republican-controlled states have \u201csystematically and deliberately\u201d tried to \u201cdisempower and disenfranchise\u201d voters.  <\/span><\/p>\n

Here is another clear example of how leftists distort language for their political advantage.<\/span><\/p>\n

To disenfranchise is to deprive of a right, in particular, the right to vote.  But only some people have the right to vote.  Felons and children do not have the right to vote, nor do non-citizens.  Not yet, anyway.  You do not have the right to vote in a certain geographical area simply because you are a sentient being residing in that area.  Otherwise, my cats would have the right to vote. Now a requirement that one prove that one has the right to vote is not to be confused with a denial of the right to vote.<\/span><\/p>\n

My right to vote is one thing, my ability to prove I have the right another.  If, on a given occasion, I cannot prove that I am who I claim to be, then I won't be able to exercise my right to vote on that occasion; but that is not to say that I have been 'disenfranchised.'  For I haven't be deprived of my right to vote; I have merely been prevented from exercising my right on that occasion due to my inability do prove my identity.<\/span><\/p>\n

But for a leftist, the end justifies the means; all's fair in love and war; and politics is war.  This explains why they have no scruples about hijacking the English language.<\/span><\/p>\n

It is not that Hillary does not know what 'disenfranchise' means; it is that she will do anything to win, including destroying what ought to be a neutral framework within which to conduct our debates.<\/span><\/p>\n

Language matters<\/a> because he who controls the language controls the debate.<\/span><\/p>\n

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According to the WSJ, Hillary Clinton thinks that Republican-controlled states have \u201csystematically and deliberately\u201d tried to \u201cdisempower and disenfranchise\u201d voters.  Here is another clear example of how leftists distort language for their political advantage. To disenfranchise is to deprive of a right, in particular, the right to vote.  But only some people have the right … Continue reading “On ‘Disenfranchise’ and Hillary’s Will to Power”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-language-matters","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7095","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7095"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7095\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}