Holding 2 contradictory beliefs at the same time, and believing both: Harris and the media

Everytime I hear a George Orwell quote, I am both amazed at his perspicacity and a bit horrified at how accurate he was in describing our current times. Here is one quote from his great novel “1984” that applies well to our current ruling classes: “Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one’s mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.”

We are seeing this notion played out in real time as the press both embraces Kamala Harris’s radicalism while pushing her camp’s many denials of previous statements she made concerning a wide variety of issues.

On one hand, Kamala said she didn’t think illegal immigrants should be guilty of a “crime” and that we should provide all public services to them for free, but on the other her camp is now saying that she would be tough on the border and hire thousands of new border agents, and that Trump and the Republicans are the ones who are weak on border security. To add a third layer of absurdity, the press also assiduously denies that Kamala was ever called the “border czar” or even inhabited that role.

Or how about the fact that her administration (because it is synonymous with Biden’s) helped stoke the worst inflation in 40 years with excessive and wasteful spending bills, which most harmed the poor and working classes she claims to care about, but that now she claims to be a champion of reducing the cost of living. (The fact that she plans to do so by simply implementing price controls and prosecuting “greedy corporations” shows just how Marxist and stupid she is about basic economics.

Price controls always result in higher prices, as does persecution of the businesses that provide the goods and services we need.) Under Trump, inflation was kept below 2% and real wages grew faster than at any time in recent history, especially for the poor and Blacks.

Nevermind that. The press and Democrats now boldly claim that their policies will help the poor and Trump’s will hurt them, even though they have yet to acknowledge the harm done by their policies in the last 4 years.

Perhaps the most egregious example of doublethink in the Biden-Harris camp is their constant drumbeat that Trump is a “threat to democracy” and a secure world order.

This, from the administration who openly and brazenly implemented policies that violated the Constitution (Biden literally bragged about doing so with his fraudulent student loan forgiveness scheme). Who used the DOJ to attack their main political rival. Whose feckless and weak leadership enabled and emboldened Russia to invade Ukraine and Iran/Hamas to launch its gruesome attack on innocent Israeli citizens, including babies and elderly survivors of the Holocaust.

Contrast this to the relative international peace we saw under Trump. Yes, Trump also had his constitutional excesses, but they were aimed at preventing entry of migrants from countries whose terrorist vetting was insufficient, not at buying votes from spoiled college kids.

But the press continues on, insisting that Trump’s policies are authoritarian and dangerous while Biden-Harris’s are models of international harmony and domestic tranquility. Balderdash!

I will give Kamala credit for being consistent on just one issue: abortion. But here too she and most Democrats are guilty of the worst kind of “doublethink.” One on hand, they claim to be protectors of the innocent, the vulnerable, the poor, people of color, etc.

They rail against policies, real or imagined, that result in disproportionate harm to marginal communities. They claim to be champions of women and robust public healthcare. And yet, they rabidly support the intentional killing of the most innocent, most vulnerable among us, unborn children.

They justify their perverse morality by citing “science,” and yet ignore what scientists actually say about the true humanity of even the smallest zygote or embryo. They celebrate and encourage abortion even though it is most prevalent among the poor African-American community.

So while Kamala may have not changed her mind on abortion, she is still guilty of the worst kind of moral crime by advocating for its availability through all 9 months of pregnancy.

If we lived in a normal, decent country, our political leaders at least be questioned about this type of double-thinking and double-speaking, but our press not only doesn’t ask, they enable it by shoving down the memory hole facts that harm their favorite candidates while creating false controversies about the candidates they hate.

Orwell would recognize well this type of cretinous character as being cut from the same cloth as the Marxist monsters of the early and mid 20th century, but he might be surprised of how strongly and quickly they re-emerged after the putative defeat of the Marxist movement in the late 1980s and early 1990s.

He, and we, likely underestimated the power of the university systems and the radicals therein to poison our thinking to the extent they have. They lost the Cold War only to continue the Marxist struggle in our education system, and they succeeded greatly, sad to say.

There is indeed nothing new under the sun, but to quote Orwell again, on a somewhat more optimistic note: “However much you deny the truth, the truth goes on existing.”

Trey Hoffman

Peachtree City, Ga.