It’s March 29, 2026. Still no king. What’s all this about?
“MeToo” dates back to 2006. When did it take off? 2017. Who was the president?
Black Lives Matter dates back to 2013. When did it take off? 2020. Who was the president?
By then, multiple studies had found no systemic racism in lethal police-civilian encounters. No matter. Riots for months.
“We won’t take the Trump vaccine!” He’s not president anymore. “Anybody who doesn’t take the vaccine is a mouthbreathing Neanderthal!”
Fauci: Don’t wear a mask. The zombies: “Don’t wear a mask.” Fauci: Wear a mask. The zombies: “Wear a mask!” Fauci: Wear two or three. The zombies: “Wear two or three masks!”
Karen drives to the mall alone in her car, wearing a mask.
Karen has a sign in her front yard. “In this house, we believe in science.”
Israel responds to Hamas massacring, kidnapping, and raping Jews on October 7. The zombies: “Free free Palestine!”
“Trump is rounding up brown people!” Obama deported far more. “Don’t you wish Obama was still our president?”
“ICE Out!” Obama used ICE, too. “Michelle is so classy, amirite?”
The Hunter Biden laptop. “Leave Biden’s family alone!”
Trump wants more jobs for Americans. “In this house, we believe no one is illegal.”
(Under Biden) “High prices will force America to transition to electric cars.” (Gas prices under Trump) “Trump is making it impossible to get to work!”
Trump exposes widespread fraud in Minnesota. “Defend our Somali neighbors!”
Trump doesn’t want men punching women in the face. “Trans rights are human rights!”
“Trump is a pedophile!” Graphic pornographic books in K-12 and classrooms festooned with queer propaganda. “Trans rights are human rights!”
“Trump doesn’t respect women’s spaces.” No men in women’s dressing rooms. “Trans rights are human rights!”
“I stand with Ukraine! Arm them!” Trump degrades Iran’s nuclear capacity and their ability to threaten their neighbors and wage proxy war via terrorist groups. “Trump’s a warmonger!”
No king. “No kings!”
The same people who chant “No Kings!” and “This is what Democracy looks like!” support Hamas and the Islamic State of Iran.
The same people who demand the rule of law condemn law enforcement.
The same people who claim to champion the worker demand globalization and open borders.
The same people who tell us to “Follow the science” think men can become women.
The same people who shout “Womens Rights!” welcome men in women’s spaces.
If you’re looking for principle and reason, you won’t find it in the Democratic Party. You will find that the corporate elite lead the progressive rank-and-file around by their septum rings.
In Nineteen Eighty-Four, the “Two Minutes Hate” is a daily ritual in which citizens of Oceania rally and express intense hatred toward the regime’s enemies, especially Emmanuel Goldstein, who is portrayed as a traitor.
The exercise serves to channel people’s emotions into loyalty to Big Brother while preventing independent thought.
“No Kings” is the ritual in today’s America. Donald Trump is their Emmanuel Goldstein.
In Orwell’s story, the Party emphasizes slogans like “War is Peace,” “Freedom is Slavery,” and “Ignorance is Strength,” which invert perception of reality.
Today, the Party has new slogans that invert perception. “Transwomen are women.” “Safe and effective.” “In this house, we believe in science.”
In Orwell’s warning to the world, “doublethink” is the Party’s defining mental discipline: the ability to hold two contradictory beliefs at once and accept both as true, allowing reality itself to be constantly reshaped by authority.
The protagonist, Winston Smith, sees this during a public speech when the Party propagandist abruptly swaps the enemy from Eurasia to Eastasia, and, as if a switch has been flipped, the crowd revises their understanding, insisting that Oceania has always been at war with Eastasia.
History is revised, and memories suppressed, all in real time.
Doublethink operates not just as propaganda, but as a self-deceptive psychological mechanism: citizens must consciously forget what they just knew, while also believing they have never been mistaken.
Progressives have always championed civil rights. Men have always been women. Democrats never said the vaccine would stop COVID. Etcetera. The examples of revisionism and rectification are many.
One week “ICE Out.” Next week, “Free Palestine.” The week after that, “Trans Genocide.” Followed by “Hands off Venezuela, “Hands off Iran,” “No Kings” (not necessarily in that order, but order doesn’t matter). “Black Lives Matter,” “MeToo,” “Hands up.” Rinse. Repeat.
Democrats are showing us the world they want us to live in. It’s an Orwellian dystopia—with some Aldous Huxley thrown in. It’s a Brave New World.
If you’re not indoctrinated, then you see it for what it is. It’s a test for the presence of an independent mind.
People all around us are failing the test. They take to the streets to loudly proclaim their failure.
Eighty percent of House Republicans and eighty-two percent of Senate Republicans voted for the Civil Rights Act. Democrats attempted to block the passage of the Civil Rights Act through the filibuster. Progressives think the opposite happened.
Progressives can’t grasp the simple truth that Southerners joined the Republican Party because conservatives are for limited government and expanding individualism. When progressivism took over the Democratic Party and abandoned classical liberalism, it became collectivist. Southerners rationally choose the Republican Party as their new home. The party that enslaved and segregated blacks—the Democrats—flipped their loathing to whites. And they flipped history to manufacture context.
The United States went to war with a monarchy 250 years ago and established a secular Republic guided by rational Christian ethics. Progressives take to the streets on March 28, 2026, to protest a king that doesn’t exist. Where will they be on July 4, 2026? Hating America.
Progressives weren’t educated. They were indoctrinated and deranged. Common knowledge isn’t so common anymore. Ditto for common sense.
This is why we must radically reform public education and continue to stand up alternative media. The zombie problem would be smaller if progressives didn’t dominate our sense-making institutions.
My favorite sign from yesterday? “Too many problems for one sign.” Translation: “I really don’t know why I’m out here.”
What does democracy look like? November 5, 2024.
freedom and reason 