The Canard Movement

A canard is essentially French, and inserts itself unnecessarily into otherwise intelligent discussion to distract one's attention from the situation at hand.

A canard is quite literally a duck in French, a duck that has been carried over from the French to the English to mean baseless report or rumor, and then transported from the English to the Americas to mean not what it means but something other than it means. The word socialist, for instance, applied to a man who has served as a US Senator for 14 years and before that as a member of the US House of Representatives for 16 years, is a canard.

A man is more likely to be a canard than a woman and, as such, men are more susceptible to canard appeals from The Right and The Left whether they be made by men or by women.

Mike Bloomberg is a canard as Donald Trump was a canard. Elizabeth Warren and Amy Klobuchar, endorsed by the canardian daily newspaper of record, The New York Times, for President and Vice-President, serve as canards, unwitting perhaps but canards nevertheless.

A third party canard has yet to emerge, but be forewarned; the canardian instinct is primal and may presently be searching for canard replacement parts to scuttle any and all plans for actual systemic canard reform.

In American politics a canard is something or someone posing as an alternative pallative to what has already proved itself powerful, healthy and on the side of the people. 

And then there's the anti-canard right in front of us, plain as daylight, having been there now for some time.

Senator Bernard Sanders (I-Vermont) yesterday, February 17, 2020, in Richmond, Ca. Photo by author.