Doublethink and the Liberal Mind

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Doublethink and the Liberal Mind
By Ed Kaitz

Doublethink defined: "The power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them . . . . To tell deliberate lies while genuinely believing in them, to forget any fact that has become inconvenient, and then, when it becomes necessary again, to draw it back from oblivion for just so long as it is needed, to deny the existence of objective reality and all the while to take account of the reality which one denies — all this is indispensably necessary. Even in using the word doublethink it is necessary to exercise doublethink. For by using the word one admits that one is tampering with reality; by a fresh act of doublethink one erases this knowledge; and so on indefinitely, with the lie always one leap ahead of the truth."

Recent polls are showing that by a good 60% margin, Barack Obama is seen as a candidate who can "unify" the nation. This may be the most brilliant example of what George Orwell called "doublethink" in the recent history of the Democratic Party. Think about it: for over thirty, maybe forty years the American public has been variously sermonized and threatened by crusaders in Obama's same party into embracing not unity, but "diversity." Call it what you will - brilliant or duplicitous - it is still a masterful political achievement.

For decades students in our schools have been told to "celebrate difference" and to see America as a "salad bowl" rather than the "melting pot" of old. Those who resisted the collective swoon for "diversity" and who descried the resulting balkanization of our educational institutions were forced into "diversity training seminars" and reeducated under the watchful eyes of "diversity officers." For as Mao Tse Tung famously said, those who oppose progressive change "must go through a stage of compulsion before they can enter the stage of voluntary, conscious change." But if these polls are correct, and Obama is indeed the great unifier, what will happen then to all of the "diversity officers" and "diversity training" seminars on our college campuses and in our corporations? Will the entire "diversity" superstructure in our society finally be dismantled? Will Democrats, for maybe the first time since JFK or MLK start talking about what unites us rather than what divides us? Will citizens be thought of as "Americans" first and not categorized and rewarded based on skin color? Is Obama, the great unifier, going to finally liberate us from this divisive ideology? Don't hold your breath.

Orwell called this "doublethink" and he claimed that it was a condition endemic to the totalitarian mind. It meant the ability "to hold simultaneously two opinions which cancelled out, knowing them to be contradictory" and "to be conscious of complete truthfulness while telling carefully constructed lies." For example, a liberal socialist political platform usually involves "liberating" us from our attachments to property, families and nation in the name of "freedom." When the State chooses for us, however, the result is slavery. Doublethink in Mr. Obama's case ("Diversity is Unity!") gives him the luxury of defending not only the divisive and intolerant Reverend Wright and his party's divisive policies over the years, but it also allows him to be seen as the savior who will finally make America whole.

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And since "moral reasoning" rather than emotional ties should convince women that they had "a right to obtain an abortion at any stage of [the] pregnancy," the conclusion, says Warren, is quite liberating

The result was an amazing achievement. Feminists like Warren and Thompson and others convinced millions of women that the natural, feminine, emotional connection they had to their unborn children could be trumped by rational argument. Doublethink in this case rates as the most brilliant and successful defiance of objective, natural law ever in the history of human civilization. In short, according to professor Raymond Dennehy in his fascinating new book, Soldier Boy, these feminists had convinced women that "there is no moral difference between a woman bearing her child or killing it."

Hillary's grand plan [It Takes a Village], according to Lasch, is to weaken the very institutions that make free societies possible, but with a strategic use of doublethink she can do all of this in the name of freedom: by "freeing" children from their parents the state can then turn American citizens into what Lasch calls "clients" or what most people would call "slaves." A recent major ruling in California against home school parents is a testament to the slow, gradual, march of this kind of thinking.

The bottom line is that when the Left in this country embraced Marxism they committed themselves to conflict and division, not cooperation. Obama, unlike Hillary however is smart enough to understand that fostering division is a poor strategy for winning elections.

Obama's relationship with Reverend Wright complicates this strategy, as does his receptivity to and defense of the anger in much of the black electorate. But if Obama's message is "unity" then it means absolutely nothing unless he addresses several decades of divide and conquer liberal ideology. In other words, unless he does this, Obama's message will amount to nothing other than the latest form of Orwellian doublethink: "Diversity is Unity!"

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