The Stupid Establishment’s Lies Will Be Its Undoing

The coming vaccine fiasco is going to be yet another example of our idiotic ruling class’ utter incompetence and total paucity of wisdom. It is clear that there is going to be a huge backlash in the form of people refusing to take the vaccine. The vaccine may actually be quite good – real doctors (not fake doctors like Lady McBiden) have told me it is. I have no dog in the fight, since my bloodstream surges with powerful antibodies that have already defeated the puny COVID virus and render me invulnerable to its .05 percent death rate for my demographic. But other people could use a vaccine, and yet tens of millions of them won’t believe the vaccines are safe and/or effective entirely because the Establishment is stupid.

Here’s how the Establishment is stupid. It decided that we citizens were stupid and acted accordingly.

The Establishment decided that instead of having a vigorous debate and discussion over the safety and efficacy of these prophylactic potions, they would just short circuit the whole messy truth determination process that Western civilization has relied upon for a millennium – argument, debate, and eventually consensus after everything is fully and freely hashed-out – and move right to the Official Truth. All the smart set decided that the Official Truth would be that these vaccines were all perfect and necessary and that we needed to stamp out any hint of dissent lest people pause and think for themselves and thereby disrupt the plan by raising unapproved notions. And the tech overlords would do their part by ensuring that any info, ideas, or interplay that was not inline with the narrative would be suppressed.

It’s so much more efficient, you know, to tell people what they think than to take the time to convince them and refute counter-arguments.

Not everyone was foolish. It was very smart and good leadership for Mike Pence to take the shot in public in front of cameras. That a couple of tentacles didn’t sprout out of his clavicles was reassuring. That’s leadership, and that’s what our leaders should be doing. But most of our ruling class instead thinks that if they lie to us and suppress our debates and call us stupid enough, we’ll fall into line.

Here’s the thing – there are going to be side effects. We’re already seeing reports of them. No one’s spontaneously combusted like a Spinal Tap percussionist, but every medicine and every vaccine generates some negative reactions in some people. That’s a fact. That’s science, which we are constantly informed we are to believe in. Yet the blackout on dissent, the suppression of debate, in favor of the mandatory thumbs-up narrative, hides this truth. What the leaders should do is confront it. Speak the truth – yeah, it’s a good vaccine but some people will have issues – and let the debate commence. And then participate in the debate with moves like VP Pence’s: show themselves putting their immune systems where their mouth is.

But now, because they are hiding stuff, people think they are hiding stuff. And people hiding stuff do not get the presumption of good faith.

By refusing to level with us, and refusing to allow people to bring up the problems, then presenting counter-arguments and evidence, by trying to skip this inconvenient process and go right to an Official Truth that isn’t necessarily true, they basically Jerry Nadlered all over their own credibility.

Great job, folks. Another epic fail by the leadership class that brought us Taylor Swift and Grindr.

As an inevitable result of this folly, there are going to be a significant number of people out there who will resist what is probably a pretty safe and effective set of vaccines all because they justifiably don’t trust our elite. And our elite is going to then contend that these people are somehow dumb for not trusting the elite when the elite itself ensured people were not going to trust it.

It is now telling us that those ubiquitous anonymous Trump advisors are fretting that the president is going to do something sinister to not turn power over to President-Suspect Asterisk, then inevitably that won’t happen either. And, like all of these examples, there’ll be no accountability, no reckoning for lying to us. The same journo-hacks who spewed this nonsense will keep their jobs and probably get awards, all after being wrong wrong wrong.

But hey, we’re the knuckle-draggers for not trusting them and their narratives!

We hear our ruling caste bemoan that Americans believe in conspiracy theories which presume elite malice, but exactly how has the elite performed its cultural and societal duties in the last couple decades in a manner such that it has a right to expect a presumption of good faith?

For years, we heard nothing but about how Trump’s alleged foreign entanglements compromised him. That turned out to be baloney. Yet when actual evidence of Hoover Biden snorting up Chi-Com cash, among other racketeering, with a wink and a nod from his proud, crusty daddy, the Establishment did not merely ignore it. It decreed that the truth could not even be spoken and launched a campaign to prevent you from hearing about it. And it largely worked. It certainly helped Grandpa Badfinger that the anti-Woodward and Bernsteins of our glorious news media ensured that our democracy was kept in darkness.

The Establishment Deep Throats of today warn reporters, “Don’t follow the money,” and the reporters are happy to obey. After all, suppressing the news gets you those MSNBC hits.

The bad news is that our ruling class is composed of unaccomplished idiots bereft of the wisdom to effectively run our society. But the good news is likewise that our ruling class is composed of unaccomplished idiots bereft of the wisdom to effectively run our society. These people are stupid. Their own unblemished track record of lie after lie is so egregious that they are undercutting their own moral authority to govern better than we ever could.

Every day more people get woke to the fact that our betters are much worse. Every lie they tell trying to hold onto their power, position, and prestige in the short-term helps guarantee their long-term defeat. Some of us patriots worry that we are doomed to be ruled by them forever. I don’t worry about that. Our would-be masters are too stupid to rule us for long.

I don't imagine I am the first to see the parallel, but this jumps out at me and makes me think of "Fahrenheit 451"

Have another...

Eerily familiar...

Party ownership of the print media
made it easy to manipulate public opinion,
and the film and radio carried the process further.

16. Ministry Of Truth

.......

The Ministry of Truth, Winston's place of work, contained, it was said, three thousand rooms above ground level, and corresponding ramifications below.

The Ministry of Truth concerned itself with Lies. Party ownership of the print media made it easy to manipulate public opinion, and the film and radio carried the process further.

The primary job of the Ministry of Truth was to supply the citizens of Oceania with newspapers, films, textbooks, telescreen programmes, plays, novels - with every conceivable kind of information, instruction, or entertainment, from a statue to a slogan, from a lyric poem to a biological treatise, and from a child's spelling-book to a Newspeak dictionary.

Winston worked in the RECORDS DEPARTMENT (a single branch of the Ministry of Truth) editing and writing for The Times. He dictated into a machine called a speakwrite. Winston would receive articles or news-items which for one reason or another it was thought necessary to alter, or, in Newspeak, rectify. If, for example, the Ministry of Plenty forecast a surplus, and in reality the result was grossly less, Winston's job was to change previous versions so the old version would agree with the new one. This process of continuous alteration was applied not only to newspapers, but to books, periodicals, pamphlets, posters, leaflets, films, sound-tracks, cartoons, photographs - to every kind of literature or documentation which might conceivably hold any political or ideological significance.

When his day's work started, Winston pulled the speakwrite towards him, blew the dust from its mouthpiece, and put on his spectacles. He dialed 'back numbers' on the telescreen and called for the appropriate issues of The Times, which slid out of the pneumatic tube after only a few minutes' delay. The messages he had received referred to articles or news-items which for one reason or another it was thought necessary to rectify.

In the walls of the cubicle there were three orifices. To the right of the speakwrite, a small pneumatic tube for written messages; to the left, a larger one for newspapers; and on the side wall, within easy reach of Winston's arm, a large oblong slit protected by a wire grating. This last was for the disposal of waste paper. Similar slits existed in thousands or tens of thousands throughout the building, not only in every room but at short intervals in every corridor. For some reason they were nicknamed memory holes. When one knew that any document was due for destruction, or even when one saw a scrap of waste paper lying about, it was an automatic action to lift the flap of the nearest memory hole and drop it in, whereupon it would be whirled away on a current of warm air to the enormous furnaces which were hidden somewhere in the recesses of the building.

As soon as Winston had dealt with each of the messages, he clipped his speakwritten corrections to the appropriate copy of The Times and pushed them into the pneumatic tube. Then, with a movement which was as nearly as possible unconscious, he crumpled up the original message and any notes that he himself had made, and dropped them into the memory hole to be devoured by the flames.

What happened in the unseen labyrinth to which the tubes led, he did not know in detail, but he did know in general terms. As soon as all the corrections which happened to be necessary in any particular number of The Times had been assembled and collated, that number would be reprinted, the original copy destroyed, and the corrected copy placed on the files in its stead.

In the cubicle next to him the little woman with sandy hair toiled day in day out, simply at tracking down and deleting from the Press the names of people who had been vaporized and were therefore considered never to have existed. And this hall, with its fifty workers or thereabouts, was only one-sub-section, a single cell, as it were, in the huge complexity of the Records Department. Beyond, above, below, were other swarms of workers engaged in an unimaginable multitude of jobs.

There were huge printing-shops and their sub editors, their typography experts, and their elaborately equipped studios for the faking of photographs. There was the tele-programmes section with its engineers, its producers and its teams of actors specially chosen for their skill in imitating voices; clerks whose job was simply to draw up lists of books and periodicals which were due for recall; vast repositories where the corrected documents were stored; and the hidden furnaces where the original copies were destroyed.

And somewhere or other, quite anonymous, there were the directing brains who co-ordinated the whole effort and laid down the lines of policy which made it necessary that this fragment of the past should be preserved, that one falsified, and the other rubbed out of existence.

It has been working for at least 50 years.

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How long did the Soviet Union last?

They had secret police, and spies, and the entire establishment set up to tell lies to the people with very stiff penalties for not believing the lies.

We are currently like the frogs in a pot as the water slowly heats up. The left have been so careful to make their changes in our society by calling it “for the children”, or it is only fair, “if you like your doctor you can keep your doctor”.

With control over the media, universities and with bribes to the big corporations it was easy for them to make changes that if put to a vote would not be made (and in many cases were put to a vote and when they lost simply go to a court to get the changes anyway.)

So it is true they seem to be winning at the moment, but are they?

The left’s fatal mistake (for them) is they have removed the safety valve (of free speech, and free assembly) from the pot and when the pressure builds up it will explode.

The only question is will it be an American Revolution type explosion or a French Revolution type explosion (where the French peasants killed everyone elite they could find).

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