Lie to me

[It is the language that frames the debate.] As I write these words, I create the argument. Dormant in my head, or perhaps only silent, my ideas have no voice until I speak them. My words seek reference with my thoughts, with the world. My words are not simulations; I "mean" them to carry value.
To the extent which debate is politicized, "meaning" loses value. Polemic is based on the stage of the disingenuous, the ideological cheapens words, twisting their meanings, accenting the phonetic at the expense of accuracy. "Spin" or "lie"? These words carry differing connotations, yet the terms differ only in spelling.
The purpose of this deliberate obfuscation, this threshold of deceit, is the creation of doubt in the audience and the acquisition of ill-gotten credibility. No surprise the political players of the day are concerned with "talking points" and "sending letters to elected officials". By framing the debate, the language they use can become even more opaque, a cycle empowering a lie in ascendancy. Language as warfare, words as bullets, manifesto of verbal landmines that serve to limit political thinking is the earmark of our age.
To the poet it is a game; to the philosopher it is tenure; to the dictator it is everything.
The success of reactionary politics is based on the Big Lie, resurgent and dressed up, but as severe and dangerous as ever before. To start a war based on a lie is nothing new, but our institutions ostensibly exist to prohibit these tendencies.
By controlling the language of the debate, the debate proceeds along and within the boundaries the framer has designed. The efficacy of this strategy is evident in the collapse of civil democratic debate. Screaming at the top of one's lungs so that no rational argument can be set forth by one's opponent, is the essence of contemporary reactionary politics by all appearances. Shouting one's opponents down is not an intellectual triumph; no argument has been debated, no conclusions can be drawn. Human nature, in it's animal/emotional sense has simply beaten down the faculty of reasoning and consideration...