Just Sayin' Author:Godfrey Harris Euphemisms have always been a civil, sometimes humorous, way to blunt the truth and make the inevitable more palatable, but U.S. politicians, lobbyists, and civil servants have tended to use euphemisms to mask the reality of government actions and policies to shield themselves and their patrons from a divided and distrustful electorate who have ... more »come to doubt that their government is any longer of, by and for the people.« less