@SABOTEUR That’s part of what bothers me, I should say bothers my ears. The word woke is conjugated incorrectly, or maybe woke is a noun instead of a verb in this case?
Awakening, or becoming enlightened, having an epiphany, opening ones eyes, gaining understanding, all sorts of synonyms to be used that would maybe have a harder time being hijacked by the other political side because they are standard English.
Either Democrats don’t care or they don’t realize how new terms and phrases can easily backfire. Defund the Police is another. That sounded crazy as soon as I heard it even after I understood the explanation it’s still a ridiculous set of words that gave the right ammunition. Actually, luckily, a lot of Democrats did say that isn’t a good choice of words, but the Republicans have no idea prominent Democrats, some who are Black, said that it was a bad choice, because it’s not on their news. Biden has actually increased funding for the police.
Another example, Democratic Socialist or pushing the idea that Socialism is good. Look back at what I wrote 5 even 10 years ago and you’ll see I was trying to get people to stop using the word socialism—going to lose FLORIDA!
Democrats need to stop latching on to every saying and term that more left parts of their party come up with. They need to take some classes in branding and marketing.