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  The Importance of Language... There’s a reason we use the language we do. And it’s more important than ever. Ben Meiselas and MeidasTouch Network Oct 21 One of the things we talk about in our new book, WTF America?! , is the importance of language. It is critically important that the words we use actually capture what we’re experiencing. Let me give you an example. I don’t think calling what’s taking place in the Trump regime “corruption” does it justice. Corruption, in my view, is a word that describes a sickness inside a broader body politic. In the past, I thought of corruption in the United States as a virus, an ailment within a generally healthy body. You identify it, you target it, you purge it, and you hold people accountable, the same way you’d identify a cancer and go after it. But what happens when the body politic itself becomes the corruption? Then just saying “corruption” doesn’t cut it. Every day, a hundred stories come out about Trump corruption. A Venezuelan bil...