It was bound to happen.
After classifying virtually any disagreement on contemporary issues as disinformation, the leftist expert class has decided to go full Orwell and declare history to be disinformation.
Some of the nation’s top historians are going after lies and misinformation about U.S. history in a new book.
Nobody has heard of the vast majority of these “historians”. And by “lies and misinformation”, they mean conventional disagreements in the past.
The book, released this month, seeks to rebut simplistic maxims repeated mainly by the right — that the New Deal was bad, the Reagan revolution was good, and Confederate monuments are nothing more than historical artifacts.
If we’re classifying the non-leftist positions about the New Deal or the Reagan revolution was “misinformation”, how long until they’re being censored and deplatformed by Big Tech?
The debates over policies by the FDR and Reagan administrations were hashed out long ago. In a free society, people would be free to continue debating them. But in this creepy 1984 system that the elite Left is pushing, there’s no more debate. Everything that the lefty elites disagree with is branded as “misinformation” that needs to be suppressed because it’s actively dangerous.
Editors Kevin M. Kruse and Julian Zelizer, both Princeton University historians, say the right has used the conservative media ecosystem to dismiss evidence about real conflicts in favor of a patriotic story of triumph and perseverance.
Again, not the language about “evidence” or a “conservative media ecosystem” as if debates about the New Deal hadn’t long predated the internet or could be settled by “evidence”.
Of course, this wouldn’t be the full Orwell without a “threat to democracy”.
“The United States is in the grip of a crisis of bad history. Distortions of the past promoted in the conservative media have led large numbers of Americans to believe in fictions over facts, making constructive dialogue impossible and imperiling our democracy.”
There we go.
People who disagree with us are a “crisis” that makes “dialogue” impossible and are a threat to “democracy.”
Good news. If you don’t like FDR’s socialism, which was repeatedly struck down by the Supreme Court in his own time, you represent a “crisis” and a threat to “democracy”.
Not a new idea, really. It was a popular enough take from these same totalitarian propagandists in the FDR era.
Enjoy this clip from Gabriel Over the White House. And remember, they’d like to actually make it happen.
Algorithmic Analyst says
Official history is often the worst kind.
Jeff Bargholz says
Yeah, The Nazis were really into that. So were the Soviets. And American lefties are busy imposing it in our government schools, with the imprimatur of Congress and every recent presidential administration except Trump’s.
Moe Wigsoe says
Goebbels learned the propaganda thing from none other than Woodrow Wilson.
Jeff Bargholz says
Wilson. Have you ever seen a photo of his teeth? Full on snaggle tooth. I bet Goebbels didn’t mimic those. Both of them were monsters.
Mo de Profit says
History is written by the winner, this is evidence that we are losing and losing badly.
Cat says
We have no party. Democrat and RINOcrat are the choices. Thats how we lose. Someone has to DO SOMETHING!
Oh I know – go to my school board. Um, How did that work out? Hi, FBI profile.
Or Write a letter.
“Dear Totalitarian Despot, …..”
TRex says
Pablum for the latest generations of college “graduates”. For most this is coming late since they were not exposed to history throughout their time as students. Add on the hijacking of the English language and a “critical” mindset and you have a ready-made audience ready and willing to consume wall to wall propaganda.
Ugly Sid says
Your speech is violence. And an attack upon democracy.
My violence is speech. And a defense of democracy.
Failure to recognize infallibility should be prosecuted. To protect democracy.
We can start with kill switches on microphones, then automobiles, then medullas oblongatas.
It worked for Stalin. How can one argue with success?
Chief Mac says
I remember when I was in college and had to take a modern US history class to graduate. The LeftTwat professor (Women’s Studies graduate of course) claim the US dropped the atomic bombs on the Japanese and not the Germans because we were racist and wanted revenge on the Japanese.
I went back to the papers that Americans leaders wrote at the time and their reasoning to use those bombs. It happened to refute every single one of her claims. I challenged her on everything she taught with actual documents and was the only one that did so. I was also the only person to get an A in that course
Jeff Bargholz says
Uh, wasn’t the war against Nazi Germany over when the bombs were dropped on Japan? And nuclear bombs were devised right before they were dropped?
Ugly Sid says
Einstein wrote FDR. He’d learned the Nazis were conducting heavy water experiments. This was the germ of the Manhattan Project: fast track the A bomb before the Master Race.
We’d only built three. The Japanese didn’t know that. In July we tested the first in New Mexico. The other two were sent to our B29 bases targeting Japan.
In August we vaporized Hiroshima, then Nagasaki, three days later. Japan surrendered. My father didn’t die. Here I am. Don’t ask me to mourn for those who put millions of the defenseless to the sword.
In high school, the father of a friend had been their prisoner in the Philippines. The mere sight or mention of anything Japanese drove him apoplectic. This reaction was shared throughout the Pacific basin, anywhere the Japanese occupied.
As a young soldier I spent two years of the sixties in Korea. The Treaty of Portsmouth gave, literally and completely, the Korean Peninsula, and it’s people, to the Japs. I never quite understood how we could be forgiven.
Jeff Bargholz says
Good point about the bomb being developed to be used on the Nazis. Everybody used to know that. Everybody except left wing professors, I guess.
I used to live in Indonesia and they told blood curdling stories of Imperial Japanese atrocities, like skinning people alive and such. And don’t get me started on the mass rapes.
You know, I never would’ve guessed you’re an old guy. You write like a young guy. Even your screen name reads as young. Young at heart, eh? I like you even more now.
Spurwing Plover says
Just rewrite the History Books to meet their leftists goals and make phony revionists history movies to suit your needs its what both the Nazis & Commies did and its what they do in Hollywood today
Patron2020 says
History has always been written by the winners. The left appears to be winning right now. Evil has historically gained the upper hand before good was motivated enough to do something about it.
WJ says
The time is coming and will be here soon when there will be no memory at all of the left and the evil it is now known for. Every legacy they are working to create will never be around forever. That is a good thing.
Jeff Bargholz says
Well, I’ll drink to that and God willing, it comes to pass.
stpaulchuck says
1984 is now made reality.
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“How many fingers am I holding up, Winston?” – 1984
Spurwing Plover says
Animal Farm the Pigs run the United Nations since they created it in the first place
Ugly Sid says
Thank you. Your words are most kind.