'Most Americans are so dim-witted that they trust the government to tell them what is true or false.'
I would like to think that most people understand that the government lies. I’d like to think that most are capable of thinking for themselves. A recent public opinion survey by Pew Research Center, however, strongly suggests otherwise.
More than half of Americans (55%) said they think that the government should “take steps to restrict false information online, even if it limits freedom of information”.
I would like to think that most people would recognize the false premise of the question posed, which is that the government is both benevolent and infallible, but alas.
The grim reality this poll result reveals is that most Americans are so dim-witted that they trust the government to tell them what is true or false.
An even greater proportion, 65%, think that the Big Tech companies like Facebook and Twitter should bear this responsibility of determining the truth for them.
How can so many Americans be so utterly stupid?
What planet have they been living on for the past several years?
I’d like to know because, here on Earth, we have seen how the government has incessantly lied to us while systematically violating the First Amendment to the Constitution by colluding with social media companies to censor factually accurate information that contradicts official dogma.
The term “misinformation” in this context is a euphemism meaning any information, no matter how factually accurate, that does not align with the adopted political agenda.
To cite one obvious example, who can forget how the government sold the mRNA COVID‑19 vaccines to the public on the basis of the lie that two doses would confer durable sterilizing immunity, ending the pandemic by stopping infection and transmission of SARS‑CoV‑2?
Remember back in 2021 when Facebook prohibited people from telling the truth that the COVID-19 being issued under Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) vaccines were not FDA approved, even though the FDA fact sheets that health care providers were supposed to provide to patients prior to vaccination informed that there were no FDA approved vaccines for COVID‑19?
Remember how White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki on July 16, 2021, said that the government was colluding with Facebook to stop the spread of what she euphemistically called “disinformation” while herself spreading the very real disinformation that the vaccines were FDA “approved”? By her own standard, as a result, the White House should have been banned from all social media platforms.
Remember how the CDC brazenly lied that the vaccines were more effective than natural immunity? How the mainstream media’s faux “fact checkers” then propagated the CDC’s bald-faced lie while ignoring literally all the non-CDC-originating scientific literature, which had overwhelmingly demonstrated the superiority of natural immunity? How those of us who exposed the CDC’s lie were censored for telling the truth?
Remember how the bivalent “booster” shots were sold to the public by the FDA on the basis of the lie that they would “#UpdateYourAntibodies” to be specific to the Omicron variant and thus “RechargeYourImmunity” up to 100%, the truth being that they failed to do so because of the problem with the COVID‑19 vaccines of original antigenic sin?
Remember how for a long time Facebook prohibited users from sharing factually accurate information about the probable lab origin of SARS‑CoV‑2, treating this legitimate scientific hypothesis as though it were a baseless “conspiracy theory”?
Examples of the truth being censored in favor of deceitful state propaganda abound.
The majority response to the opinion poll reveals just how extraordinarily deluded most Americans are about the trustworthiness of the government.
It also reveals the extent to which most Americans are either unwilling to think for themselves or are incapable of doing so.
And freedom of speech is supposed to be one of the bedrock principles upon which the United States was founded, yet the poll result reveals that most Americans either detest this freedom or don’t understand what it means to have a right to speak freely.
Don’t these idiots realize how incredibly dangerous it is to be advocating that the government be involved in dictating to us what we can or cannot say online?
Notably, when the data is analyzed by political party affiliation, we find that 59% of Republicans understand that protecting freedom of information means that falsehoods as well as truths will be encountered on social media.
On the other hand, 70% of Democrats are so delusional and disdainful of liberty that they view it as the proper role of government to treat us like idiots whose minds are too feeble to even be exposed to alternative views and conclusions, much less to determine the truth for ourselves.
Clearly, there is much work to be done to get more Republicans to understand the importance of getting the government out of the business of censorship, but the far bigger problem is the statist belief system that most Democrats have been so egregiously indoctrinated into.
It’s what I call “the state religion”, a subsect of which is the vaccine religion.
One positive outcome of all the madness we’ve witnessed over the past few years with the government’s criminal policy responses to COVID‑19 is a mass awakening to the complete untrustworthiness of the so-called “public health” establishment and the government in general.
But a public opinion survey last year similarly revealed that most Democrats are so delusional that they have even more trust in the CDC now than they did before the pandemic.
(To be clear, I have no love for the Republican Party, either, but they have generally demonstrated far greater sanity on COVID‑19-related issues, with one prominent example being Florida’s appropriate refusal to persist with lockdowns under Governor Ron DeSantis.)
Similarly, a public opinion survey last year found that an increasing proportion of Americans are recognizing the need to respect the right to informed consent, with an increase of respondents expressing opposition to mandatory vaccination from 16% in 2019 to 28% in 2022. But the proportion of Democrats who favor violating this fundamental human right also increased.
Clearly, we have a lot of work to do yet to awaken most Americans from their self-delusion, and the hardest task in that regard will be to break the spell that most Democrats are under that is preventing them from thinking rationally.
There is a verse from the New Testament of the Bible that comes frequently to mind when I ponder the state of our society today:
The coming of the lawless one is according to the working of Satan, with all power, signs, and lying wonders, and with all unrighteous deception among those who perish, because they did not receive the love of the truth, that they might be saved. And for this reason God will send them strong delusion, that they should believe the lie, that they all may be condemned who did not believe the truth but had pleasure in unrighteousness.
How can we determine who loves truth enough that they can be reasoned with? And how can we get through to people who pretend to care about the truth but who are in fact so afraid of reality that they want the government and Big Tech companies to conceal the truth from them under the ludicrous pretext of protecting us from “misinformation”?
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