Leftist Word Salad: When Political Talking Points Become a Meal

Freshly tossed. Heavily seasoned. Nutritional value questionable.

Politics has always had slogans.

But somewhere along the way, politicians discovered something even more useful: string together enough buzzwords, repeat the approved phrases, sprinkle in a little outrage, and you don't necessarily have to answer the question.

At BoldGoodsUSA, we decided that deserved its own product.

Introducing:

LEFTIST WORD SALAD

You've seen bagged lettuce at the grocery store.

We just updated the ingredients.

Inside our satirical bag of political greens you'll find a generous helping of fashionable terminology, recycled talking points, carefully selected buzzwords, and enough verbal dressing to make almost any uncomfortable question disappear.

Just shake vigorously and serve.

What Exactly Is “Word Salad”?

The expression existed long before today's political battles. In everyday usage, however, “word salad” has become shorthand for speech that contains plenty of words but leaves the listener wondering:

What exactly did you just say?

Political language is particularly susceptible to it.

Ask a straightforward question and sometimes the response seems to travel through three talking points, two slogans, a personal anecdote and a philosophical observation before arriving approximately nowhere.

That's when you know the salad has been properly tossed.

Kamala Harris and the “Word Salad” Reputation

Former Vice President Kamala Harris became particularly associated with the phrase among her political critics.

One widely mocked example came during remarks about broadband infrastructure when Harris repeatedly emphasized:

“the significance of the passage of time.”

The larger remarks concerned infrastructure, jobs and the long-term benefits of broadband investment. But the repetitive phrasing was tailor-made for social media.

Another Harris expression became equally famous:

“what can be, unburdened by what has been.”

Supporters heard an optimistic message about overcoming the past.

Critics heard another serving of word salad.

Political satire did what political satire has always done:

It ran with it.

But This Isn't Really About One Politician

Here's where the joke becomes more interesting.

Politicians have always developed ways of speaking that sound meaningful without necessarily committing themselves to much of anything.

Republicans do it.

Democrats do it.

Corporate executives do it.

Government bureaucrats may have perfected it.

Listen long enough and you'll hear familiar ingredients:

Moving forward.

Having important conversations.

Building consensus.

Addressing root causes.

Stakeholders.

Common-sense solutions.

An abundance of caution.

Some of these expressions have legitimate meanings.

Use enough of them together, though, and you've got yourself a salad.

Why BG Put It on a Bag of Lettuce

Because sometimes the simplest satire works best.

Instead of another angry political poster, we took the phrase literally.

WORD SALAD MIX.

Package the talking points like supermarket lettuce.

Make it colorful.

Make it ridiculous.

Let people get the joke before they've finished reading the bag.

That's what BG political satire is supposed to do.

We're not trying to write another campaign speech.

We're trying to make you look twice, laugh once, and maybe think about what's actually being said.

Read the Label

Political language works best when nobody stops to examine the ingredients.

So read the label.

Listen to the entire answer.

Look past the slogan.

Ask what the words actually mean.

And when somebody gives you five minutes of carefully prepared talking points without answering a simple question...

You may have just been served another bag of Leftist Word Salad.

Question everything.

Especially the dressing.

THE BG DISPATCH

Faith. Freedom. America. Satire with a little bite.

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