I understand it is a political definition...

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FrankC — 11/28/2012 1:18:52 AM (archived)

and I am being somewhat ocd to take it any further, but why would the word reactionary come to describe radical right wing without having any contextual relationship to the root word react? For all the relationship the word has to react, reactionary could just as easily been chosen to describe a music lover and taxionary could be the right wing radical.

Or so it seems to me...yes, no?

And, this is a total hijacking of the original post but since I posted it I guess it is permissable

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Interesting chart on political views - FrankC - 11/27/2012 7:39:14 PM
- Fog - TB - 11/28/2012 1:31:31 AM
- Reactionary as I learned it in school was not perjorative. - alcaray - 11/27/2012 10:36:55 PM
  - I found the site looking up the word reactionary - FrankC - 11/27/2012 10:52:44 PM
    - "Reactionary" is a political definition. - ER - 11/27/2012 11:37:08 PM
      - I understand it is a political definition... - FrankC - 11/28/2012 1:18:52 AM
        
        I don't know exactly how the term originated, but I bet it was something like this. - ER - 11/28/2012 3:22:01 AM
        
        Re: I understand it is a political definition... - Jody - 11/28/2012 1:36:36 AM
- I think these people wrote the polls for Romney. - bowser - 11/27/2012 8:50:03 PM
- "The foremost triplets of modern day deceit are Marxist collectivism, Darwinian atheism and Freudian self-indulgence." - ER - 11/27/2012 8:35:05 PM

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