Over the course of my life so far it has come to my attention that words have a tendency to change meaning over time. That does not cause me concern in itself, but the manner in which some transitions are facilitated does.
The method I am refering to is when a behavior, ideal, philosophy, or lifestyle that is generally not considdered by society as acceptable is attempted to be propped up by applying a word to it that has a strong positive meaning. Unfortunately they only seem to demean and corrupt the meaning of such words for those who are not willing to go accept what they had previously considdered unacceptable simply due to a new window dressing.
Some of the words I have seen partially or completely corrupted so far are life, choice, gay, queer, rainbow, diversity, tolerance. Now in this election year it seems that some politicians are now trying to add the word HOPE to that list.
I find it rediculous that they would take such a meaningful and needed word and apply it to a mere political banner flag.
Thus, in addition to asking your opinion on this issue. I also ask when will they realize that they are not binging themselves up, but instead dragging other things down?