Political Slang

 Are you comfortable with political conversations in your family reunion or in a get-together with friends? Talking about one's political stance or viewpoints could be the fastest way to create a crevice in your relationships with them. Well, like it or not, let us go over a couple of political expressions/ slang today. 

Political Slang

 

1.  to comey or to pull a comey: to flipflop back and forth to the point of absurdity/ to be indecisive or bungling something at the last minute (based on the former FBI director James Comey who turned into a backstabber.) You can use “comey” as a noun or an adjective as well.

 

2.  Blue Lives Matter: Blue Lives Matter is an organization created to support the police and to stand against violence against police officers. In recent times it has been a topic of controversy due to the number of recent police brutality incidents.

 

3.  a hit dog: A person acting sensitive, mad, or butt hurt as if something said applied to them (hit home)

Someone who responds defensively to a general statement, meaning they clearly took it personal

 

4.  Jexodus: the fake departure of American Jews from Democratic party (the name of a right-wing political effort to encourage Jewish Democrats to leave (as an exodus) and join the Republican party due to the left's supposed anti-Semitic, anti-Israel policies)

 

5.  Proud Boys: white supremacist group whose members are pro-gun rights, against feminism and gender equality, and take a libertarian stance on issues such as welfare

 

6.  middle-of-the-road: neutral/ less severe than far left (or progressive) or far right (conservative) positions on the political spectrum

 

Let’s recap what you’ve learned by practicing!

    1.  Jeremy always calls himself a ______________________ politician, but anyone who knows him thinks he belongs to the far right political group and has been secretly supporting ___________ Boys.

 

    2.  Samuel Porter Jones, who was a lawyer-turned pastor and preacher said “Throw a stone into a crowd of dogs, and the ________ dog will holler”

 

 

    3.  Republicans are insisting there is a sizable and growing movement among American Jews — especially younger ones — to abandon the Democratic Party for supposedly embracing anti-Semitism, or at least anti-Israel positions. They call this ____________________, which is not based on truth.

 

    4.  I saw the protesters in front of the police station, holding the sign that said “_______________________________” which is the pro-police term coined in response to “Black Lives Matter”.

 

    5.  Everyone hoped the new FBI director will be a steadfast, respectable, trustworthy, and dignified leader versus being a total _________________.

 

 

Answer Keys

    1.  middle-of-the-road, Proud

    2.  hit

    3.  Jexodus

    4.  Blue Lives Matter

    5.  Comey

(picture source: https://clocktower.ucollege.edu/articles/2020/political-slang-defined-based-politics)