Whatever you want to call it

Whatever you want to call it, it's a common phrase in Gabriela Saucedo Mercer's vocabulary, but it isn't a phrase unique to her. "whatever you want to call it" is something that comes in real handy when conservatives are too lazy to do the research it takes to come up with verifiable facts. They use it all the time in conjunction with other phrase du jours such as "some people say", a device used to insert opinion where fact should be. Mercer uses "whatever you want to call it" here and here and here as well as here:

“Most of the Latinos that I’ve talked to, Hispanics, Latinos, Mexican-Americans, whatever you want to call it, they don’t like it (illegal immigration) because they say, ‘Wait, illegal immigration is a problem in our country,’” Saucedo Mercer said. “We need to secure the border, we need to take control of it because it is killing our industry, and it is killing our country.”

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"... I would like to see the same excitement when I post quotes about ... why we are losing our Republic to mostly foreign ideology as it is Communism, Marxism or Socialism, whatever you want to call it ..."

-From Gabriela Saucedo Mercer's Facebook page.

It would probably help a bit if she knew the difference before running for Congress, don't you think?

so·cial·ism [soh-shuh-liz-uhm] noun
1.a theory or system of social organization that advocates the vesting of the ownership and control of the means of production and distribution, of capital, land, etc., in the community as a whole.
2. procedure or practice in accordance with this theory.
3.(in Marxist theory) the stage following capitalism in the transition of a society to communism, characterized by the imperfect implementation of collectivist principles.

com·mu·nism [kom-yuh-niz-uhm] noun
1. a theory or system of social organization based on the holding of all property in common, actual ownership being ascribed to the community as a whole or to the state.
2.( often initial capital letter ) a system of social organization in which all economic and social activity is controlled by a totalitarian state dominated by a single and self-perpetuating political party.
3.( initial capital letter ) the principles and practices of the Communist party.
4.communalism. 

In order for us to lose our Republic to socialism or Marxism "or whatever you want to call it", we would have to see evidence of nationalization of industry ... the United States Government would have to take over the oil industry, the coal industry, the railroads, the weapons complex ... but in reality just the opposite is happening. The government is being run by donations to legislators from the oil industry, the casinos, the coal, gas, and railroads industries ... the insurance companies, and lets not forget the banks.

Why don't we just call it what it is ... a Corporatocracy. A government run by the special interests, not the other way around, as Ms. Mercer sees it. If she was standing up against big business in politics and legislation, in special interests influencing policy, in everything that is against a democratic society and if she was capable of discerning between the types of governmental systems she is so tragically and pathologically afraid of, then she might be worthy of consideration as a legislator. But Arizona is already awash in illogical, irrational, maniacal legislators. Does it really need another one?


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Opinion: Latinos have become conservatives’ newest generation of scapegoats - NBC Latino