Doublethink is a tool of Big Brother — and the Democrat Party.
In his classic novel “1984,” George Orwell described the phenomenon of a tyrannical state demanding that people believe contradictory things and never assess propaganda based on logic and reality. Orwell, of course, was criticizing socialism and Communism in his novel, but the critiques are uncomfortably applicable to the Democrat Party.
As a matter of fact, the reason the Democrats so readily adopted Communist policies in the 20th and 21st centuries, the reason they were and are so enamored of Communist countries, is because they believed many of the base tenets of Marxism even before Marxism began to infiltrate our institutions. From the very inception of the Democrat Party, it divided people by class and race, it believed in political violence and fraud, it assiduously accused its opponents of its own crimes, it restricted liberty, and it ran a successful propaganda machine. When Communism became powerful globally, it found a ready-made ally in the Democrat Party.
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Thus, when we read Orwell’s description of “doublethink,” we find it is shockingly accurate about the ideology and censorship regime of the modern Democrats:
To know and not to know, to be conscious of complete truthfulness while telling carefully constructed lies, to hold simultaneously two opinions which cancelled out, knowing them to be contradictory and believing in both of them, to use logic against logic, to repudiate morality while laying claim to it, to believe that democracy was impossible and that the Party was the guardian of democracy, to forget whatever it was necessary to forget, then to draw it back into memory again at the moment when it was needed, and then promptly to forget it again: and above all, to apply the same process to the process itself.
That was the ultimate subtlety: consciously to induce unconsciousness, and then, once again, to become unconscious of the act of hypnosis you had just performed. Even to understand the word ‘doublethink’ involved the use of doublethink.
Winston’s job in “1984” is to rewrite history on behalf of the Party. Of course the Democrats rewrite history also. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, they covered up their heinous war crimes during the Civil War. Then later, they worked to redefine themselves — the party of slavery, which fought civil rights for a century — as the party of racial equality. Now they are busily rewriting all of our history to frame every hero of the past as evil. As Orwell put it, “Day by day and almost minute by minute the past was brought up to date.”
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Big Brother is not mere fiction. He — or it — is a very real threat to America. The Party, the Democrat Party, is by no means dead; it still has too much power and influence. The mantras bombard us. Men can be women, democracy requires election fraud, censorship secures free speech, race-baiting is anti-racist, abortion is healthcare, rioting is peaceful, war is peace, and freedom is slavery.
But of course, we should expect no more from the Democrat Party. Whatever they say this week is as dishonest as what they said last week, and last year, and last century. It’s all one continuum. As Orwell said, “It was merely the substitution of one piece of nonsense for another. Most of the material that you were dealing with had no connexion with anything in the real world.” What a perfect description of Democrat propaganda.
