There is a midterm election coming in 6 months. Inflation is at 40 year highs and gasoline and groceries prices are crushing middle class and poor people. Illegal immigrants are pouring across our southern border at a record pace. We are losing Americans at a pace of 8 to 9 thousand a month to drug overdoses, mostly Fentanyl related. Our children have been hurt by keeping them out of their classrooms, and masked when in the classroom. While in their public school classrooms they are increasingly being indoctrinated with racist philosophies like Critical Race Theory. Democrats believe boys who identify as girls have a right to shower with girls and participate on girls athletic teams. More than 30 Democrat incumbents are retiring at the end of this term. President Biden’s polling hit a new low. What do you do if you are the leaders of the Democrat Party?
Two months ago the leaders weren’t happy, but they were relatively sanguine. They were comforted in the fact they had virtual control of the mainstream media and complete control of social media. They were able to manipulate the political narrative. Then it happened. The unthinkable. The richest man in the world decided to purchase Twitter. And he is NOT a member of the Progressive Left. He is an uncontrollable free thinker who believes in freedom of speech. From coast to coast Democrats went into their best Chicken Little imitation. All of a sudden it became clear to them that lying to the people just got increasingly more complicated. They believe they will maintain control of the Senate. They know they are going to lose some seats in, and perhaps control of, the House. No problem. They could reassure their base that this always happens in the first midterm after electing a new President. It had nothing to do with their terrible mismanagement, or misguided policies. It was just history. They could depend on a slavish media to corroborate their comments. The thought of losing control of the narrative terrifies them more than losing an election. People, and political parties, make bad decisions when they are frightened. You see a lot of ready, fire, aim, decisions.
Last week, during a meeting with members of the U.S. House, DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas informed members that he had started a new Disinformation Governance Board. Some are calling it the Ministry of Truth (MOT), right out of George Orwell’s novel, 1984. The MOT is charged with deciding what information is accurate and what is disinformation. (Perhaps its first assignment should be to check out the veracity of Mayorkas’ statement that his department has “operational control of the southern border).” Democrats didn’t feel the need for an MOT when they had control of the media. In fact, a legitimate MOT could do nothing but get in their way. Once Elon Musk announced his interest in buying Twitter the Left started scrambling into action. President Obama, one of the great purveyors of misinformation, began telling of its threats. In a speech he warned that people were dying because of it. He told us that, for our own good, we needed more government regulations. More government is never good for the people.
To give the new department credibility you’d expect to see a retired judge, or federal prosecutor to be named as its leader. The Biden administration chose to go in a different direction. They chose an unserious young woman by the name of Nina Jankowicz. She arrives at her new assignment with a less than glorious resume where misinformation is concerned. She said the Trump/Russian collusion was legitimate, and the Hunter Biden computer report was Russian misinformation. That makes her 0 for 2 as she arrives at her new job. She worked for the far left Wilson Center which is heavily funded by the Biden administration. Isn’t it a confidence builder to know that the leader of the MOT comes from the Left and has ties directly to the Biden administration? She can hardly be expected to render unbiased decisions. It is unlikely she will be trusted by many of us. But she may prove effective in running interference for the Democrats.
Thanks to Elon Musk’s purchase of Twitter, the formation of the MOT is but the first sign of changes to come. It is a negative change. There could be a few positive ones. If Twitter is the loose cannon it could turn out to be, it will have a direct impact on the other social media sites, and ultimately the main stream media. If it promotes free speech it will put pressure on other members of social media to do the same. Ultimately, that could force other forms of media to begin reporting the truth.
History has ample examples of the terrible consequences that have followed regimes who established Ministries of Truth. In nearly every case they are formed to silence people who disagree with the government. The Democratic Party finds itself in dire straits as we move to the midterms. They have continually denied their slide toward socialism. with the announcement of the MOT, there is no hiding it anymore. Now that Twitter is out of their control it will be more difficult for them to gaslight Americans. Losing control of the narrative puts them in desperate times. And desperate times call for desperate measures.