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Don’t let the leftists memory-hole their madness
Don’t let the leftists memory-hole their madness
The last five years happened, much as the left may want to wipe the slate clean — and avoid any accountability or apology for their lunacy.
nypost.com
Did the last five years, call it “the age of woke,” really happen — or were they just a fever dream?
Apparently we all imagined a time where COVID and cancel culture collided to oppress us.
No one was shunned for saying really obvious and true things, schools weren’t closed indefinitely under pressure from teachers’ unions, and race conflict wasn’t pushed on Americans from every direction.
At least that’s what the left would have us believe.
On Wednesday when National Public Radio CEO Katherine Maher testified in a congressional hearing, she stumbled on some basic questions . . . involving her own opinions.
“Do you believe that America is addicted to white supremacy?” Rep. Brandon Gill asked her.
Maher grimaced as if she found that belief ridiculous, but at last admitted, “I tweeted that.”
“But as I’ve said,” she added, “much of my thinking has evolved over the last half decade.”
That’s just five years — and Maher is no teenager, whose opinions change on a whim. She’s in her 40s and runs a media company with thousands of employees.
Gill continued: “Do you believe that America believes in black plunder and white democracy?”
Maher, feigning confusion that anyone could hold such a bizarre position, responded “I . . . don’t . . . believe that, sir?”
~Snip~
Now, we’re told, both Weingarten and Keilar wanted schools open, and we’re crazy for thinking otherwise.
This week also saw The Atlantic’s Jonathan Chait pretend that leftists are undergoing some kind of COVID reckoning while conservatives are not.
Perhaps because the leftists got everything about COVID wrong, then forced the dumbest rules on the rest of us and have never apologized for any of it?
Oh no, Chait assures us: “Liberals got some things about the pandemic correct and other things wrong, and over time, many of them have disavowed or at least moved away from their wrong beliefs.”
Where? When?
Chait himself spent the last few years spreading conspiracy theories about COVID vaccination rates in Florida because he was so invested in his twisted narrative. Has he ever admitted that he was deluded?
What about all those who were shadow-banned or kicked off social media, fired from their jobs, shunned within their industries for saying things that were true all along?
Did they get an apology? Do they get reparations?
The last five years happened, much as the left may want to wipe the slate clean.
There’s an impulse to simply move on, without any accountability or apology for their lunacy. As a famous woman once said: What difference, at this point, does it make?
But it matters very much. We’re still living in the thick of so many of the left’s bad ideas and policies.
Biological boys are still playing in girls’ sports — and every single Senate Democrat this month voted against a law to stop it.
They’re waving away some of their madness, but certainly not all.
We can’t let the left simply pretend the last five difficult years didn’t happen. It’s time to challenge outright the lies, the rewrites, the scoffing at ideas they once considered mandatory.
Those who pushed the very worst policies, and forced them on the rest of us, can’t now get to claim otherwise.
Commentary:
Once again, It's hardly news that the usual suspects are caught lying outrageously. The problem is with those who choose to believe them.
Katherine Maher deserves all the reproach and ire that Congress and the media can lay upon her. Not only for actions and statements but to the audience she has offended and expects more honesty and ethics to her profession and not her ideology..
This has become the era of Neo-Marxist Democrat liars. Some of the most appalling lies were told to America but worse, Americans believed them. It seemed as if people liked the nonsense they were being fed on a regular basis. Anyone who dared to challenge the liars were vilified mercilessly.Now that Americans are being told the truth about their money and society, they STILL want to hear lies. It might be time to grow up and own up to how naive we have become as a nation. Democracy is a tough gig.
There was a time I could find relaxation just listening to their production of symphonic music. No longer. That is a fact of at least two decades.
