Maitaining Your Integrity

 D. Parker has a must read article at the American Thinker today entitled Lies, Damn Lies, and Democrats. He makes several points. One is that, if it hasn't occured to you yet, the unhinged hate and vitriol of the reaction to Carlson's reporting, both by politicians and the mainstream press, shows everyone that he is over the target. Or, as Parker puts it:

If we didn't know any better, all of this rage from the "ruling class" would bring forth the quote from Shakespeare's Hamlet: "The lady doth protest too much, methinks." But considering all the issues surrounding this soil enhancement storm of the lowest caliber reveals far more about our ruling aristocrats in Washington than we ever wanted to know.

These people were exposed as liars, and yet rather than apologize, they doubled down. And that yields the second point, that Tucker Carlson's reporting exposed: that the two parties are in fact on the same side, and against We the People. I am not sure I believed fully in the idea of a Uniparty. But I was listening to Glenn Beck's interview with Tucker Carlson yesterday where Carlson discussed the fact of the Majority and Minority leaders acting in concert to attack Carlson. He also mentioned McConnell's getting wealthy off of Chinese money, which explains a lot. It truly is, as Angelo Codevilla wrote in The ruling Class, the Ruling Class against the Country Party.

The third point Parker makes is one I have made continuously, that by forcing you to call things that you know are untrue "the truth," they effectively demoralize you. If they can get you to tell lies that you know to be lies, they can make you do anything.

It hearkens back to a key moment in what to our horror has become the instruction manual for the fascist far left these days, George Orwell's 1984, where the protagonist is being tortured ("re-educated") in the Ministry of Love, and he has to accept that two plus two equals five. That's not like what we've been battered to accept these days, such as that men can get pregnant or there are 57 genders, but that was the start.

In accepting that lie, he was able to make "progress" in his "treatment":

He set to work to exercise himself in crimestop. He presented himself with propositions — 'the Party says the earth is flat', 'the party says that ice is heavier than water' — and trained himself in not seeing or not understanding the arguments that contradicted them. It was not easy. It needed great powers of reasoning and improvisation. The arithmetical problems raised, for instance, by such a statement as 'two and two make five' were beyond his intellectual grasp. It needed also a sort of athleticism of mind, an ability at one moment to make the most delicate use of logic and at the next to be unconscious of the crudest logical errors. Stupidity was as necessary as intelligence, and as difficult to attain.

Just as Winston Smith had to train himself to accept the lies without question, we're being put through the same process en masse. You could almost imagine Orwell toying with the proposition that men can get pregnant and then rejecting it outright as too absurd.

But we've trained ourselves not to notice the absurdities unless they are staring at us right in the face. That leads us to the truly disturbing revelation of what the ruling aristocrats think of the rest of us.

Why not let the people decide?

To remain free, you must not play this game. If you allow yourself to be demoralized, if you give up your integrity, you weaken yourself, Like the "honey traps" spys must watch out for, you become blackmailable. If you have given up your integrity, then you must confess and then stop it. It won't be pleasant for you, as Tucker Carlson is experiencing, and as Glenn Beck experienced. But such is what our Lord Jesus Christ said would happen.