ﾠ“Youth Catching Their Breath”? … The Left’s ‘Republic of Word Games’

[Choice Times=Joo-Hyun Park, Guest Editorial Writer (CEO of Jaedam Entertainment)]

Politics is said to be conducted through words, but when one looks at the terms pouring out of the left these days, it feels less like politics and more like a presentation by a pyramid scheme. George Orwell’s1984was supposed to be a dystopian novel, but for them it seems to have become a practical sales manual they read every morning before heading to work.

Their method is simple and grotesque. Wherever there is a painful reality to confront or a place where their own dreadful incompetence has been exposed, they stuff in soft, romantic, cotton-candy-like words. No matter how much makeup they put on language, the stench of rot does not disappear, yet they shamelessly keep relabeling the package.

Young people who cannot find jobs and are shut away in their rooms are now called “youth catching their breath.” What a chilling sleeping pill of a phrase. The state’s incompetence, which has erased the very track on which young people were supposed to run, is neatly omitted, and their despair is instead packaged as if it were some poetic pause in the middle of a marathon.

They scatter tax-funded jobs that amount to little more than convenience-store part-time work of less than 15 hours a week, then massage the statistics and call it “public job creation.” The gaunt reality of real jobs drying up and dying is perfectly concealed behind this pretty phrase.

During the COVID lockdown years, when self-employed business owners were being driven to starvation, the term they pulled out was another work of art: “good landlord.” It was the government’s forced business restrictions that destroyed commercial districts, yet the burden of compensation was conveniently shifted onto private landlords. If you lowered the rent, you were a “good” person; if you were too buried in bank debt to do so, you were a greedy villain. It was a vicious frame that transformed responsibility the state should have borne into a private morality battle between individuals.

If anyone so much as suggests fixing the inheritance tax, they are immediately slapped with the brain-dead label of “tax cuts for the rich” and silenced. Yet when the government borrows money and sprays cash around, it gets dressed up in luxurious labels like “basic income” and “universal welfare,” as if they were some kind of sacred human right. What they never mention is the filthy bill their children will spend a lifetime paying to sustain those “basics.”

But the grand finale of all this wordplay—the most grotesque comedy of all—is the so-called “crime of legal distortion” that has now spread into the judiciary.

What a breathtakingly clever name. A law that claims to punish judges if they “distort the law” in their rulings. On the surface, it sounds like plausible judicial reform. But what is the real purpose hiding behind the phrase? It is to legally beat down and tame judges who dare hand guilty verdicts to their supreme leader or other politically important figures.

Indeed, in courtrooms right now, defendants unhappy with their trials are openly threatening judges, saying, “I’ll have you thrown in under the crime of legal distortion.” Judges who are supposed to defend the separation of powers are now being pushed into writing rulings while glancing nervously over their shoulders at the police. This is not judicial reform. It is thugs using state power to sew shut the mouth of a referee who dared pull out a red card against their boss. And all of it is being wrapped in the polished phrase of “preventing distortion” and rammed through with a massive parliamentary majority.

A society ruled by pretty words is a sick society. Pleasant rhetoric does not fix structural contradictions by even a single millimeter. Changing the wrapper does not turn trash into gold. We must tear off, without mercy, the glamorous linguistic blindfolds that political power keeps placing over our eyes. If we fail to stare directly at the ugly reality of taxes, debt, regulation, and the destruction of the judiciary, we will remain fools forever—people whose wallets are picked clean while we are distracted by their word games.

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