AOC’S Ministry of Truth

By Atom Bergstrom

Atom’s Blog

Alexandria Occasional-Cortex is showing us the future of political sausage-making.

She Guevara is NOT a socialist.

She’s a totalitarian doomsday climate cultist.

Jaws (another of her nicknames) has also been called a “luxury communist.”

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David Harsanyi (“AOC and other progressives have a new goal: Silence the press,” New York Post, Jan. 13, 2021) wrote …

“Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has been a wellspring of truly terrible ideas for years, but her new one might be her worst one yet: A Ministry of Truth.”

According to the same source …

“Only this fall, the traditional news media teamed up with Big Tech platforms to censor inconvenient reporting by The New York Post, which had uncovered the shady business dealings of the president-elect’s son, Hunter Biden. The pretext for this concerted and blatant attack on open discourse and journalism was the alleged need to uphold accuracy and standards.

“As some of us suspected, and we all soon learned, the entire act was put on to shield the preferred candidate of elites. The Post’s reporting was accurate, which is not something anyone can say about the four years of endless conspiracy theorizing by major media outlets regarding Trump’s alleged criminal collusion and Russia’s alleged theft of American democracy.”

According to the same source …

“As for AOC’s ideas: It’s just creepy, not to mention wholly un-American, for an elected official to advocate the state as adjudicator of veracity of our political speech.

“It’s also crassly hypocritical. If anyone could use a truth commission, it’s Congress.”

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Tré Goins-Phillips (“Is This ‘1984?’ AOC Calls for Government ‘Commission’ to Dispel ‘Misinformation’ from Media,” Faithwire, Jan. 13, 2021) wrote …

“The suggestion floated by Ocasio-Cortez is reminiscent of the ‘Ministry of Truth’ in Orwell’s famed dystopian novel. The ironically named ‘Ministry of Truth’ in the fictional land of Oceania, a city under the thumb of outsized government control, wields total control over the flow of information with agents tasked with rewriting newspaper stories so the published narrative always matches up with the government’s agenda.”

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