On August 10, 2016 at 15:11, Mac Burks (39) said...
Spin what? I am not denying that some of the people in this country are hearing what they want vs whats actually being said.
Trump's speaking style is so unclear that it's often hard to tell what he's actually talking about. That leaves everybody needing to interpret, and anyone with an opinion won't be able to keep from spinning in at least some small way.
On August 10, 2016 at 10:09, Ranger Home said...
Is the word politician based on the latin work lie? :)
RH probably meant word, not work.
Funny you should ask!
www.etymonline says that, around 1580, the word
quickly took on overtones, not typically good ones. Johnson defines it as "A man of artifice; one of deep contrivance."
And it comes from politics...
Politicks is the science of good sense, applied to public affairs, and, as those are forever changing, what is wisdom to-day would be folly and perhaps, ruin to-morrow. Politicks is not a science so properly as a business. It cannot have fixed principles, from which a wise man would never swerve, unless the inconstancy of men's view of interest and the capriciousness of the tempers could be fixed. [Fisher Ames (1758-1808)]
Ultimately, it's based on the word polis, which means city, as in metropolis. And politics is/are affairs of the city, state, that is, government.
