Makes sense when \u201cdemocracy\u201d\u00a0 means demoncraps are in charge<\/p>\n
The Twitter files: leftism requires censorship.<\/a><\/p>\n One of the funny (although not \u2018funny ha-ha\u2019) things about all of this is that these same people bleat on about \u2018democracy\u2019 and its great value and worth. And yet they think of the public as unable to sort out the wheat from the chaff, as children in need of control from \u2013 yes \u2013 Big Brother Twitter. And they\u2019re not the least bit ashamed about it. They had to do it to save democracy.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n America\u2019s Ruling Regime Doesn\u2019t Fear Disinformation. It Fears Truth.<\/a><\/p>\n In Joe Biden’s America, attempting to cancel Joe Rogan is just counter-terror policy.<\/p>\n This is because our ruling class\u2014in the name of “defending democracy”\u2014classifies those who question the regime on\u00a0any matter of consequence<\/a>\u00a0as a threat to the homeland, and pledges to pursue them accordingly.<\/p>\n Our ruling elites have\u00a0engaged<\/a>\u00a0in an overt\u00a0war on wrongthink<\/a>\u00a0masquerading as a domestic counter-terror mission since at least January 6, 2021.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n As part of this effort, the\u00a0Department of Homeland Security\u00a0(DHS) recently issued a speech-chilling\u00a0National Terrorism Advisory System Bulletin<\/a>. It claims the United States is in a “heightened threat environment fueled by several factors, including an online environment filled with false or misleading narratives and conspiracy theories, and other forms of\u00a0mis- dis- and mal-information<\/a>.”<\/p>\n Among the greatest contributors to the current “threat environment,” according to the bulletin, is the “widespread online proliferation of false or misleading narratives regarding…COVID-19.”<\/p>\n It would appear the Biden administration considers the ivermectin-hocking, tequila-swigging,\u00a0Bernie Sanders-supporting Rogan to be public enemy number one on this issue.<\/p>\n Shortly after hosting dissenters from COVID orthodoxy including Drs. Peter McCullough and the then-recently deplatformed Robert Malone on his podcast, Rogan found himself the subject of a cancel campaign contrived by washed-up musicians, non-medical doctors and corporate media whose ratings he has crushed.<\/p>\n But it wasn’t just these parties out for blood.<\/p>\n No less than the\u00a0president of the United States<\/a>, his\u00a0press secretary<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0surgeon general<\/a>\u00a0contributed to the anti-Rogan jihad, calling for war on COVID “misinformation and disinformation.”<\/p>\n This effort was, to put it mildly, disingenuous. We know how seriously to take the administration’s views on COVID “misinformation and disinformation” because by its own standards the White House, and its media mouthpieces, have been the most powerful and prolific purveyors of “misinformation.”<\/p>\n The administration has flip-flopped on\u00a0virtually every aspect<\/a>\u00a0of the coronavirus to positions that its social media adjuncts used to ban people over. It did so not because “the science” has changed, but because the politics have changed.<\/p>\n Biden’s White House says its critics are dangerous\u2014not to the public, but to its rule, as if that rule is equivalent to America or democracy itself, as Dr.\u00a0Anthony Fauci\u00a0is to science.<\/p>\n As the DHS bulletin notes, the first key driver of the “heightened threat environment” is the “proliferation of false or misleading narratives, which sow discord or undermine public trust in U.S. government institutions.”<\/p>\n Never mind what those government institutions themselves have done to sow discord or undermine public trust, like, say, calling for\u00a0Twitter\u00a0and\u00a0Facebook\u00a0to censor people.<\/p>\n It’s the critics, the dissenters\u2014those with no monopoly on force or multi-trillion-dollar budgets\u2014who are the real scourge.<\/p>\n The bulletin lists as another potential threat “false or misleading narratives regarding unsubstantiated widespread election fraud”\u2014perpetuating the narrative of “insurrection<\/a>” so central to the effort to persecute wrongthinkers, while eliding that\u00a0Democrats’ own election integrity-eroding measures destroyed confidence in the system.<\/p>\n Previous Biden-era bulletins<\/a>\u00a0similarly focused on COVID-19 and election integrity, but the latest one\u2014in a new twist\u2014also claims that calls for violence have been tied to anger over “the evacuation and resettlement of Afghan nationals following the\u00a0U.S. military\u00a0withdrawal from Afghanistan.”<\/p>\n So it’s not just questioning the merits of mask and vaccine mandates, or skepticism over the security of mass mail-in elections, but doubts about the wisdom of dropping unvetted refugees from a terror-dominated backwater into the middle of your town that could get you in trouble with the security state.<\/p>\n This threat bulletin, like its no less disturbing predecessors, flows naturally from the Biden administration’s first-of-its-kind\u00a0National Strategy for Countering Domestic Terrorism<\/a>.<\/p>\n That strategy calls for confronting long-term contributors to domestic terrorism, including:<\/p>\n enhancing faith in government and addressing the extreme polarization, fueled by a crisis of disinformation and misinformation…. We will work toward finding ways to counter the influence and impact of dangerous conspiracy theories that can provide a gateway to terrorist violence.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Linking speech that does not comport with regime orthodoxy to terror, and using that pretext to police thought\u2014with an armed Ministry of Truth operating out of our national security and law enforcement apparatus\u2014therefore manifestly is “counter-terror” policy.<\/p>\n Casting critics as terrorists and threatening to sic the most powerful, pervasive and sophisticated security state in the history of the world on them is of course not about defending democracy or protecting the truth, but intimidating democratic opposition into silence and submission to an official narrative.<\/p>\n The regime evidently believes it must maintain a monopoly over the American mind to maintain a monopoly on power.<\/p>\n