Earlier this week, frosh US Representative and self-described socialist Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D.-Fantasyland) tweeted this:
Let me be blunt: This is a bald-faced lie. It is totally false. AOC tweeted this knowing that it never happened.
But in her mind that does not matter because it is true. Remember, she went on 60 Minutes on Jan. 6 and said, “There's a lot of people more concerned about being precisely, factually, and semantically correct than about being morally right" (video at the link).
Welcome, comrades, to the Leftist, socialist world of Revolutionary Truth!
Revolutionary Truth is a Marxist-Leninist doctrine that rests on this foundation:
According to Marx, the coming supremacy of the proletariat over the ownership of the means of production is a scientific inevitability. That is, Marx maintained that he was not offering merely one more historical treatise of human affairs, but an actual scientific proof that the proletariat would overthrow the bourgeoisie.
Because Marxism is a totalist system of belief, its devotees,
... want to impose a new order based on an “all-or-nothing claim to truth.” They operate within distinctive parameters of a “theology of Armageddon — a final battle between good and evil” – in which the stakes are nothing less than universal salvation. As outlined in Eric Hoffer’s classic, The True Believer, such movements have mastered the art of “religiofication,” that is, converting political grievances into messianic aspirations and “practical purposes into holy causes.”
"Truth" is therefore whatever brings the Revolution closer to reality. This was a world view fully adopted by Leninists and their successors. Truth is only accidentally connected to objective facts, wbich is exactly what AOC meant when she dismissed any connection between morality and facts. In her view, the supreme morality of her politics overwhelms any superficial claim that something she relates did not happen, such as a HUD worker telling her to stay her course even though he has not been paid for three weeks.
How do we know that claim is false? Because not one federal worker has missed a paycheck yet. The first check to be missed is the mid-month January one, and that check is due out today, Jan. 11. But AOC tweeted her lie on Jan. 6.
George Orwell foresaw these politics in his novel 1984:
"We are interested solely in power. Not wealth or luxury or long life or happiness: only power, pure power. What pure power means you will understand presently. We are different from all the oligarchies of the past, in that we know what we are doing. All the others, even those who resembled ourselves, were cowards and hypocrites. The German Nazis and the Russian Communists came very close to us in their methods, but they never had the courage to recognize their own motives. They pretended, perhaps they even believed, that they had seized power unwillingly and for a limited time, and that just round the corner there lay a paradise where human beings would be free and equal. We are not like that. We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it. Power is not a means; it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship. The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power."Get used to it, comrades, because that is what will be coming in tidal waves for at least the next two years.
Update: Heh: Exasperated Democrats try to rein in Ocasio-Cortez
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