So, the media is really mad that conservatives publicized how a hospital that admitted – hell, that proudly put on its website – how it mutilates kids to conform them to their (or their Munchausen mommies’) gender delusions actually mutilates kids to conform them to their (or their Munchausen mommies’) gender delusions. No, it didn’t, we were told. But it did. Moreover, telling the truth – again, a truth the hospital admitted and even kind of bragged about – was actual, literal violence. Yes, stating what the abattoir masquerading as a hospital said it did publicly was terrorism or something because normal people were naturally repelled at this hideous continuing atrocity.
The truth is problematic because it contradicts the narrative which, in this case, is “Of course we don’t chop up children to make them into bizarre simulacrums of the opposite gender.” But the narrative doesn’t stop there – no, the narrative is also “And it’s a good thing to chop up children to make them into bizarre simulacrums of the opposite gender. Shut up, transphobes.”
See, they deny doing it even though they also think it’s a groovy thing to do. Then they tell you that you are evil for speaking the truth. It’s like the whole CRT shell game. “CRT? Why, that’s a graduate school theory that is not taught in schools despite those documents we prepared stating that we are teaching CRT. Also, CRT cannot be removed from schools because it is a good thing that we must teach. Shut up racists.”
And let’s not forget the delightful euphemism of late-term abortion. “Why no, no one ever aborts a fetus at eight months, three weeks. Also, it’s vital to women’s health to kill babies at eight months, three weeks. Why do you hate women?”
The truth hurts, so the left just sort of hand waves the truth into oblivion and accuses you for bringing it up. Why allow bourgeois concepts like objective truth to get in the way of the Official Approved Narrative?
Well, because the truth matters.
The truth will out, eventually. This nonsense has, to some extent, worked so far because normal people are just baffled by this. They get lied to, sure, but not to their faces like this. In the real world, normal people do not have others – often people in prestigious positions in politics or the media – so shamelessly lie to them about something right in front of their faces. It’s like walking out to a parking lot and, as you hit the UNLOCK button on your Ford, someone else says, “That’s my car.” You immediately think it’s a misunderstanding. “No, it’s my car.” But the other guy doesn’t back off. He insists that it’s his car. Okay, fine. You open the glove compartment and get out the registration. “Here, look, it’s my car,” you say. “No,” he says. “It says it’s my car. And you are a bad person for insisting it’s yours.”
What do you do? Because reason has stopped being the means of resolving the dispute. You cannot talk out an issue where the other side simply refuses to defer to objective, demonstrable reality and is accusing you for bringing up the truth. That leaves you two options.
Option One – Hand him the keys.
Option Two – Kick his butt and drive home.
Our society depends completely on the ability to demonstrate truth with objective evidence. You prove who you are with a driver’s license. You show you paid for merchandise with a receipt. You get the honors due a graduate by showing your University of College degree in Pansexual Interpretive Dance. We all rely on the deference of others to the objective truth, truth reinforced by evidence. And, in the past, we did not impugn others character for pointing to evidence. But this is a whole new level of chutzpah. This tactic undermines the very idea that there is truth, and that truth can be ascertained with relative certainty.
So, how does a democracy – and we all have heard a whole lot from the left about how important defending our democracy from the threat of selfie-takers is – operate where institutions can place themselves beyond accountability by denying what they are manifestly doing wrong and then attacking those who try to hold them to account? Keep in mind that they could not get away with this without the fellow traveling of the regime media that nods along with this obtuse denial of what everyone sees is true. You would expect the news media to point out the truth – or you would if you have not paid any attention to the regime media in the last couple decades.
We keep hearing about how democracy can’t function with basic facts in dispute, but this is something else – the deliberate lie that the facts are not what everyone knows they are, which the deniers actually alternatively admit are both true and good things as well, coupled with the attempt to levy social sanctions on truthtellers.
Kind of damaging to the discourse, huh?
And discourse is something that we need, because without discourse and debate – the things this in-your-face lie ploy make impossible – what is there left? How else do you determine who wins if you can’t possibly win because the other side simply denies indisputable evidence and obvious facts it knows to be true?
Well, there’s power.
And power is likely to manifest in a backlash. We saw it in Virginia. We saw it at the school boards. We see it in the Latinx pivot to the GOP. We see it with Ron DeSantis pushing back in the Free State of Florida. And, hopefully, we will see it in November.
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