Approaching the O'Brien Point

If, as Marx said, religion is the opiate of the masses, statism is the fentanyl of the deluded horde.

I find it mind boggling that for the past decade, on every controversial issue, there is ZERO intellectual diversity within the Democrat Party. Take the recent GOP House bill to protect women's sports by requiring athletes to compete in the category of their birth sex, there were ZERO Democrats defecting on something so clearly logical, scientific, and necessary.

For decades, the progressive, postmodernist mindset has been stretching the boundaries of reason and logic to fit square pegs in round holes, so much so that every Democrat is now a postmodernist, post-truth, transhumanist progressive.

Every. Single. One.

Even if they don't know why.

Call it mass mass delusion or mass formation psychosis, it leads to a mindless monolithic collective, a unthinking political amoeba that only responds to stimuli.

And due to this journey into madness we have reached a point where taking positions on issues have become binary - if the GOP is for it, the Democrats must oppose it even if opposition is clearly irrational and illogical.

So much of what progressive, postmodernist Democrats believe is simply so contradictory, it cannot exist without support from other forced delusions. They turn to laws to force people to behave as if they believe ridiculous things, even if we don't believe it. The time is near when, in true Orwellian O'Brien vs. Winston Smith form, just saying 2+2=5 will not be enough, they will try to force us to BELIEVE it.

But that has been the Democrat playbook for decades - getting people to believe things that are not true. All the way up until today, when things get tight, they always resort to the same tropes - Republicans are warmongers, hate minorities and the poor, want to starve your grandparents, will end Social Security and Medicare, and generally hate anyone who isn't rich.

It's all provable as male bovine fecal matter.

RFK Jr. is not my candidate, nor would I ever endorse or vote for him, but he does harken back to a day when these radical progressive Democrats were at least liberals who could apply reason and understand there are some lines that simply cannot be crossed just for political advantage. At least he is a lone voice in the wilderness calling to rank and file Democrats to abandon their delusions and come back to reality.

I graduated from college in 1982, during Reagan's first term. I was just becoming politically aware and the thing that interested me was how the Democrat Party was already beginning to condition their voters to believe things about President Reagan that were obviously and factually untrue.

Even then I was interested in how the human mind could be trained to believe things that were obviously untrue.

I took classes in marketing, but I also took several elective classes in human psychology because I wanted to understand how persuasive tactics worked. For one final class paper I wrote, I focused on O'Brien's torture of Winston Smith, mostly because I was fascinated by how real that fiction seemed.

In that paper, backed up by some recently declassified papers on how our soldiers were tortured in Vietnam, I described the point where Winston finally broke and began to stop repeating the words and believe as the O'Brien Point. I defined that as the moment the human brain had been assaulted to the point where the only defense mechanism it had left was to reject reality and comply with a new false reality to stop the pain.

In the end, Winston traces 2+2=5 in the dust on a table. This represents that despite all his efforts to resist the Party's influence, the Party still ends up breaking his soul and controlling his mind.

Democrats are the party of O'Brien. The debate on transgenderism is our torture, our 2+2=5 moment.

That is the hill they have chosen to die on.

The question is if we will reach the O'Brien Point.

That a man is not a woman is such a clear-cut example of natural law, a concept of being that has been understood by humankind since before the time we stood up on two legs.

The distinction is simply unarguable.

And yet, like O'Brien in 1984, they are trying to make it arguable to destroy something that is not only the basis for Western Civilization, but all of history’s human civilizations.

It's a cliché, but they are the Borg of Star Trek fame, a hivemind with only one thought among them, centralized beyond any Marxist dream or expectation.

"Equity" is a bogus concept. People are different, with different skills, intellectual levels, capabilities - and very, very different wants, needs, and desires.

Communist economies fail because they ignore the fact that people are different. Taking from one to give to another destroys, it does not build.

The merger of government and big business is not public/private partnerships, it is fascism - especially when government uses these businesses to accomplish what they are forbidden to do in our Constitution.

To support the fascist government, people must be made to believe.

Everything contemporary Democrats are about coalesces into a religion called statism.

If, as Marx said, religion is the opiate of the masses, statism is the fentanyl of the deluded horde.