Men have long understood the special connection between words and the transcendent. Historians like John Lukacs have noted that virtually all of our reality is words. Novelists like George Orwell saw only too well how the mutilation of words by monsters could send reality into a hopeless downward spiral. Leftists understand how well words fight evil, but the concept of evil is abhorrent to Leftists. People are "sick" or "ignorant" or "foolish" or "unlucky" but never evil (except, of course, anyone who ever notes that evil exists.) It is small wonder that the Left also wages war on words.