Opinion
On the upside, the left’s bloodless coup, wielding as its weapon nightmare visions of “insurrection” never charged, much less proven in court, has failed … at least for now.
On the downside, the leftist lie that the Supreme Court somehow saddled us with a divided “5-4” decision will become embedded in the public consciousness along with other “factoids,” further dividing the nation and adding inertia to schemes of “packing” the Court with nascent Marxists.
Oh, you didn’t hear? It wasn’t a unanimous 9-0 decision to end “blue” state plots to preempt who you can vote for. No, no. The SCOTUS decision was a profoundly divided “danger to democracy” by an overreaching, partisan Court.
Newsbusters’ compendium of the “mainstream” media meltdown is quite a spectacle, featuring news outlets like MSNBC and CNN sputtering that if you just “scratch the surface,” it was really a divided SCOTUS decision driven by those nasty conservative justices to benefit an “oath-breaking insurrectionist.”
Better legal minds than mine can analyze the impact of SCOTUS limiting enforcement of Section 3 of the Fourteenth Amendment solely to Congress. What I’d like to discuss are the political dynamics involved.
First, anyone who has promoted the line that our Constitution is a “living document,” the interpretation of which must shift like sand with political winds, should understand that they are now tasting the fruits of their labors. Once you start “reinterpreting” foundational documents, corresponding reinterpretation of underlying concepts such as liberty and democracy can’t be far behind.
“Doublethink” was the word George Orwell used in 1984, to describe the ability to simultaneously hold – and exercise – two or more utterly contradictory ideas; to speak obvious lies as truth.
And doublethink is exactly what the left is displaying as it attempts to interfere with elections (under the banner of preventing “insurrection,” of course) while simultaneously denouncing the SCOTUS decision to stop the interference as, itself, interference.
I’ve long said that we’ve reached a point in American political debate where facts don’t matter. But the leftist tantrum over the recent Supreme Court decision illustrates something far, far worse: We have reached a point at which it is no longer possible to speak truth.
If you ask Google whether men can become pregnant, it will answer “yes;” if you promote race-blind admission policies at universities, you are “racist;” if you oppose sexually explicit materials for Third Graders, you are “homophobic;” if you point out election irregularities (e.g. 2000 Mules), you are an “election denier;” if you oppose the invasion by millions of illegal aliens, you are a “great replacement” conspiracy theorist; and yes, if you oppose arbitrary removal of conservative candidates from the presidential ballot, you are “insurrectionist.”
I fear that with generations now brainwashed with doublethink, it might be impossible to stop our slide toward societal self-immolation. But I’ve never been one to give up without a fight, and I suggest you do the same.
Amid the media frenzy over the SCOTUS decision, an interview with one leftist “intellectual,” Larry Sabato of the University of Virginia, inadvertently let spill the greatest doublethink lie of all when he lamented, “You can’t save the people from themselves.”
You see, that is the lie that underpins all the others: That you can’t even be trusted to run your own life, much less to make decisions for the future of your country.
About Paul Valone
Author F. Paul Valone has been kicking leftist tail for twenty-eight years. Alarmed by the U.S. House passage of the “assault weapon” ban in 1994, he decided to take action. Finding no suitable organization, he organized a rally leading to the creation of a 501(c)(4) organization, Grass Roots North Carolina (GRNC), which remains North Carolina’s primary and most successful gun rights group to this day.
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