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By Andrea Widburg
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The left lives on “narrative.” In other words, it tells stories. It tells stories Cancel Culture in Bayonne,
about race, gender, criminal violence, and a host of other things. Occasionally, New Jersey

these stories intersect with the facts, but more often than not, they don’t. I Corey Lewandowski on
Donald Trump
mention this because it was the unmistakable difference between fact and France Cracks Down on
narrative that drove Georgia H, a lovely and articulate educator and nurse, to Everyone to Avoid Singling
#WalkAway from the Democrat party and its stories. Her video has already Out Islamic Terrorism

garnered 1.1 million views and counting. That’s because she says crucial things How Modern Education
Makes Good Little Marxists
about the nature of reality. Strangers in our Homeland

“Cognitive dissonance” is a fancy word for simultaneously holding contrary Why Communism is
Compelled to Destroy
beliefs or understandings, one of which connects with reality and the other of Christianity
which does not. Over the long run, cognitive dissonance is an unsustainable Will America Survive the
state. Reality will win. Democrats’ Arrows in Their
Quiver?
I know, because I had a WalkAway moment a couple of decades ago when my The Real Cost of
Democrat belief system crashed headlong into the lies I knew that NPR was Homelessness
The Battle of Tours: When
telling me. I could either embrace the narrative or embrace the truth. That’s how
the West 'Manfully Resisted'
I became a conservative. Islam

Natan Sharansky, who was probably the most famous refusenik in the Soviet
Union during the 1970s, has described how people struggle when they live in a Blog Posts
totalitarian society that demands they believe its narrative, even when the Ruth Bader Ginsburg, her
face now lit up in 20,000
realities of their lives brutally and explicitly contradict that narrative. In The
tampons
Case For Democracy: The Power Of Freedom to Overcome Tyranny And Looking beyond the polls,
Terror (2004 hardback edition), Sharansky discussed the “doublethink” that there continue to be signs
drove people mad: that Trump will win
More evidence that
Breonna Taylor was living
In any place where dissent is banned, society fractures into three
on the dark side
groups. One group is composed of those who remain committed A viral WalkAway video
to the prevailing order because they agree with it — the true shows that reality wins in
believers. Another group is made up of those who are willing to the end
When Trump hatred infects
defy the prevailing order despite the risk of punishment — the
even your favorite food
dissidents. For members of these two groups, there will be little magazines….
or no gap between their private thoughts and public statements. Biden: Voters have no right
Unlike true believers and dissidents, members of the third group to know his position on
court-packing
do not say what they think. This group is comprised of people
San Francisco reminds us
who no longer believe in the prevailing ideology, but who why we have anti-drug
are afraid to accept the risks associated with dissent. They are the laws
“doublethinkers.” Sen. Lee reminds us: this is
a Republic, not a
[snip] democracy
It's a duty for patriots to
Doublethinkers live in constant tension from the gap between own a firearm
their thoughts and words. They always avoid saying what is not A note on abortion:
Thanks, Mom
permitted but also try to avoid saying what they do not believe.
A lot of deaths this year in
But fear societies generally do not leave their doublethinkers the Baseball Hall of Fame
such a luxury. They demand from their “cogs” constant Trump dropping F-bombs is
expressions of loyalty. In kindergartens, schools, universities, just what America needs

workplaces, religious institutions, public meetings, and Trump to Iran: Don't 'F
around with us'
elsewhere, doublethinkers must parrot the ideology of the regime Towards a new kind of
and hide their true beliefs. This constant self-censorship can be declaration of
such an inseparable part of a doublethinker’s existence that it independence

becomes so habitual that the tension between thoughts and words The Great Barrington
Declaration says to end the
is almost no longer felt. Indeed, only when doublethinkers are lockdown
free are they fully aware of the extent of their previous self-
imposed intellectual servitude. (pp. 43-46.)
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Georgia H describes how, as a teacher, she was force-fed the narrative about September 2020

systemic racism in America. However, when Georgia was actually in the August 2020
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classroom, and again when she was working as a nurse, there was a chasm
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Eventually, the stress of that cognitive dissonance (or doublethink) was too February 2020
great. George H solved it by walking away and then telling others about her January 2020
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What’s especially nice about the video is that, once Georgia realized that the
narrative was untrue, she was able to see Alexandria Ocasio-Ortez for what she
really is: A completely uninformed, goofily appealing mouthpiece for a
narrative that has no relationship to the real world. Georgia saw that the
Democrat party was “a vapid laughing-stock.” She knew that thinking people
should be embarrassed to be a part of it.
It’s an excellent video. If you watch it, be sure to read the notes that Georgia
added when the video went viral.
Hat tip: Power Line.
Image: Georgia H. YouTube Screengrab.
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