Thought Crimes
Posted in rantings and ravings on February 18th, 2025 by skeeterI always wondered which American era the MAGA folks wanted to return to, maybe McCarthy and the communist witch hunts, maybe the slave era, maybe before women’s suffrage was passed. But this first couple of weeks of the new regime made me realize they want to go back to 1984, the book. Thought Crimes. Political purges. Weaponized government. Computer surveillance to weed out wrong thinking, contrary viewpoints and incorrect political beliefs. Fire the enemies then prosecute them. How many fingers am I holding? Big Brother asks Winston after secret surveillance revealed his doubts about the government. Who won the election in 2020? Who were the heroes of the Civil War? What is a female? Who started Covid? What did they put in the vaccines?
It’s not a far reach to go from firing anyone in any department who might have been involved in the DEI programs, the folks who mistakenly thought diversity and inclusion and equity were positive values, not crimes against the state. The history books will be purged of references to anything that does not ennoble the country. Racism will be erased from the textbooks, slavery was nowhere as bad as some suggest, the Civil War was a fight to protect states’ rights, the indigenous population was given generous reservation lands. Anything other than the official line will be considered a Thought Crime.
Our former enemies will now be our allies. North Korea, Russia, previously stigmatized, are now friends of the regime. Canada and Mexico suddenly are demonized, tariffs placed on them, little more than drug smugglers. Any suggestion of past alliances to the contrary will be erased from the data banks. “Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one’s mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.”
“What can you do, thought Winston, against the lunatic who is more intelligent than yourself, who gives your arguments a fair hearing and then simply persists in his lunacy?” Big Brother owns the media, Big Brother controls the executive, the legislative and the judicial. Big Brother Is Watching! We are all immigrants to him. We are all guilty of Thought Crimes. 1984 has finally arrived. Forty years late.
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