Flummoxed By The Liberal Mind

Trump releases a transcript of the conversation he has in which there is no resemblance of a quid-pro-quo (QPQ). The whistle blower, who is really not a whistle blower but a heresay-blower because of a recent and suspicious rule-change, becomes irrelevant by any stretch of logic and Adam Schiff creates a Parody in which he lies, outright, to the American people in his opening statement of the House Judiciary Committee, making up his own version of the conversation. Our family's favorite Liberal calls my husband an "asshole" and says, "you know the whistle blower was telling the truth." What kind of mind are we dealing with here?

They call it, humorously, Trump Derangement Syndrome (TDS), and it may be, but to me, it is far more pernicious. It is a form of brainwashing through propaganda where the facts are conveniently ignored and buried amidst a cacophony of "reports" by the media that continue to insist that Schiff's claim is valid when there is no evidence. Is it a matter of ignorance? I don't think so.

In Darkness at Noon, the seminal book by Koestler, written in 1938 about the leaders of the Glorious (Russian) Revolution who eventually confessed to acts they did not commit, the confessors were both political and intellectual leaders with no small pedigree. Ignorance was not the issue. It was from this book that the term brainwashing was born. Are we witnessing a form of brainwashing now in the partnership between Liberals and the Media? It is my contention that there exists a form of hope, which the protagonist in Darkness at Noon, Rubashov, has that explains the attraction of totalitarian ideologies: the hope that the political class can bring to pass a classless society, a kind of utopia, if you will.

We can see this now in the inexplicable actions of Democrats who insist that a conversation we have all read says something it does not say. Within this enigma is the hope that the party leaders can bring about the impeachment of Donald Trump simply by repeating that there was a QPQ, even though the other party to that conversation insists that there was not. This is a political hope, one that is not likely to bear fruit because our founders put in place checks on this sort of thing, but it doesn't matter the level of success if you have convinced your followers that what you are saying is true.

Our favorite Liberal is clearly convinced that Donald Trump is the Devil and that he did, indeed, hold a conversation with the Ukranian President that had at its core a QPQ. Her voice will be added to many others and the lie will propagate. And what will we see at the end when the lie is shown to be a lie? Hope lives eternal in the Liberal heart, and even a transcript will not sway the faithful. They will insist, as those who are brainwashed will do, that the lie is the truth and there is obviously an attempt by the vile opposition to subvert the glorious efforts of the Democrats who, as you should know by now, care more than others about our society. This sympathetic nature gives the Democrat its authority and thus its veracity in all matters.

The Rubashov theory of confessions is a nod to the Machiavellian thought that the ends justify the means just as long as what you are doing is justified by your faith in your political beliefs. There is a screwed-up logic there that leads to truth equals lies and all is justified by what is noble in the mind of the participant.

In my world, it looks like propaganda has lead to the brainwashing of large swaths of our political participants and that is never good. Somewhere in all of these paradoxical statements should be some semblance of truth. The real truth.

So far, I believe President Trump stands on terra firma and, if necessary, we shall see this as the wheels of justice turn slowly toward the Senate. I, too, have hope, but it is a hope based on liberty, freedom, and individual responsibility, not on utopian ideology. But my thoughts and my opinions are not in line with Liberal ideology, so they have no bearing on the Liberal mind, because the Liberal mind has closed for business. It is their way or the highway, and that, my fellow human, is the beginning of the totalitarian journey.