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Anyone who believes this country needs a 'Reality Czar,' or that Joe Biden is qualified to pick him or her, simply doesn't get it.

Arriving at the truth is a

process of discovery. It’s a pursuit. Contemplating information and asking questions are necessary to actualizing truth. Careful analysis of empirical data is the means by which truth is established and propagated. In certain cases, embracing it requires faith — or believing something that cannot be proven.

But in a world where control and subjugation are an obsession of the ruling class — political elites, academia, foreign-owned media giants, big tech and woke corporations — the truth has become just that much more difficult to ascertain.

But don’t despair.

Even as we speak, serious discussions are under way within Joe Biden's inner circle to provide you with a factversus-fiction filter.

To wit, New York Times technology reporter Kevin Roose — apparently blissfully unaware he draws a regular paycheck from the most widely disseminated barrier to the truth the world has ever produced — recently authored a piece headlined, “How the Biden administration can help solve our reality crisis.”

Convinced this self-described “crisis” entails conservative opinions occasionally slipping through the cracks into general consumption, Roose proposes a so-called “reality czar” be appointed — by uber-liberals, rest assured — to not only divine what truth is, but to then mete out justice to those who fall short in their duty to live up to the Left's conception of it.

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“Several experts I spoke with,” Roose writes, “recommended that the Biden administration put together a cross-agency task force to tackle disinformation and domestic extremism, which would be led by something like a ‘reality czar.’”

It’s a little late for “1984,” but Orwell’s vision of a Ministry of Truth is starting to look prescient.

“It sounds a little dystopian, I'll grant,” Roose concedes.

Only a little? Harvard's Joan Donovan, researchdirector of the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy, joins the choruscalling for a “truth commission,” and demands federal authorities be handed Facebook/Twitter/YouTube algorithms:

“We must open the hood on social media,” he says, “so that civil rights lawyers and real watchdog organizations can investigate human rights abuses enabled or amplified by technology.”

Not to be outdone, Stanford Internet Observatory disinformation researcher Renée DiResta advocates a centralized counterconspiracy task force because, if federal agencies are doing that work separately, “(Y)ou run the risk of missing connections, both in terms of the content and in terms of the tactics that are used to execute the campaigns.”

Various politicians and pundits have proposed with a straight face rewritingSection 230of the 1996 Communications Decency Act while using antitrust threats to tame Big Tech.

Meanwhile, counter-extremism specialist Micah Clark plumps for a “social stimulus,” and hate-group deprogrammer Christian Picciolini opts for the kitchen-sink approach. “We have to destroy the institutional, systemic racism that creates this environment,” he writes. “We have to provide jobs. We have to have access to mental healthcare and education.”

So there it is.

You may be absolv-ed from having to apply any level of reason or discernment to come to terms with the truth — ever again.

And it’s as though critical thinking and raising questions about leftist propaganda were easy, common or permissible, given the current conspiratorial cadre of deceitful politicians, agenda-driven academics, technocrats and biascompromised journalists shilling for statist government.

But one’s personal quest to offer an alternative viewpoint is about to be completely obstructed. One may be able to research and contemplate, but sharing information contradicting that which is manufactured by the Left will be impossible.

Socialist sympathizers are hoping to deprive you of the ability to embrace and emulate the truth.

The most passionate and convicted among us, who are compelled to speak up out of a sense of patriotism, religious attachment or undeniable acquaintance with scientific fact, will have neither an avenue nor a platform.

Apparently not comprehending the irony of his words, Roose suggests, “(T)his task force could meet regularly with tech platforms and push for structural changes that could help tackle extremism and misinformation problems.”

Roose also believes the crossagency task force could “become the tip of the spear for the federal government’s response to the reality crisis.” And just like that, t’s all figured out. Cancel culture is finally being formalized by the U.S. government. Its evangelists now have institutionalized authority to silence dissidents.

You don’t have to look very far in the past, or know history very well, to understand the true danger inherent in this kind of thinking.

When political elites have extensively involved themselves in regulating the “truth,” millions upon millions of lives were destroyed.

In the authoritative “Black Book of Communism,” European scholars recall the history of political repression among Communist states.

The human rights atrocities committed by Marxist regimes and archived in this research include genocides, extrajudicial executions, deportations, killing populations in labor camps and state-sponsored famines.

This analysis concludes that as many as 25 million in the former Soviet Union, 65 million in China, 1.7 million in Cambodia, 2 million in North Korea and 1 million in Ethiopia have fallen victim to the natural byproduct of Communist ideology.

Authoritarian power structures thrive in the absence of objective truth.

Paranoid dictators become obsessed with controlling the dissemination of information to the masses.

To maintain their absolute control, access to the truth has to be forbidden. Otherwise, righteous people would be empowered to challenge such indigent political oppression.

But tyranny makes the consolidation of power possible. And if dictators are to maintain their status, state-manufactured propaganda must, by definition, supplant truth.

Propaganda complements and consolidates their agenda. Destructive measures aimed at concentrating power among an elite few are then successful.

The transformation to this type of evil is well under way here in America.

The immoralities of authoritarian government can happen again. And they can happen to the American people.

The actions of the Left speak to this.

Make no mistake about the priorities of the conceptualizers of a “reality czar.”

Protection of important American institutions from domestic terrorists acting on misinformation and conspiracy theories is not the objective of this — not new but formalized — concept of truth regulation.

Movements to defund the police, the so-called “Green New Deal,” nonexistent borders, anarchy, deplatforming of political dissidents and blacklisting conservatives from job opportunities are all recent examples of their semieffective attempts to advance socialism.

And if you think these are wellintentioned, you haven’t hon-

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estly examined those intentions.

Like their socialist predecessors and mentors, the narcissistic and selfish tendencies of radicals are cloaked behind incessant attention to constructed societal ills.

Marginalizing people along racial, gender and economic lines — to have an injustice to fight — creates “legitimacy” for their mantra and a distraction from the heart of their movement — domination and control.

Prestige, moral superiority and ivory tower exclusivity is their sole preoccupation.

In John 6:32, the Bible promises, “And the truth shall set you free.” But free people need to be armed with the truth.

Individual liberty cannot exist if attainment of the truth via free thought and curiosity are inhibited.

Yet in the land of the free and home of the brave, we’re seriously considering the installation of a “reality czar.”

Truth will be contrived and liberties diminished.

The would-be ruling class does not want America to exist or continue in the direction envisioned by the founding fathers.

Individual freedom — as defined by equal opportunity to achieve life, liberty and pursue happiness — is not their hope for Americans.

A government ruled by the people challenges their wealth, political elitism, influence and control.

In fact, America’s founders brilliantly conceived of man’s natural sinful predisposition to pursue absolute power.

The U.S. Constitution recognizes that rights come from nature, not man.

And the Bill of Rights serves as individual protection from unchecked government authority.

Freedom of speech is among those fundamental rights. It’s almost as though the founders of liberty envisioned the creation of a reality czar tasked with squelching beliefs misaligned with the prevailing consensus of truth.

Leftist power brokers understand, more than the complacent majority, the power of truth.

Truth is the antidote to the oppression necessary to maintain the power for which they lust.

Hence the desperation and eagerness to create a regulatory body charged with defining the “truth” and disseminating propaganda.

The truth is more than just inconvenient for the leftist agenda. It is untenable.

When people know the truth and are willing to act on it, the value of human life will no longer be minimized.

Nor can abuses of human rights ensue. Injustice cannot prevail, prosperity is achieved, private property rights are protected and the will of the people cannot be repressed.

There is an old adage, “Evil can only prevail when good men do nothing.”

But when in the dark, distanced from the truth, nothing might be the only option even for good men.

And dwelling in the dark, living in deceit, is exactly where oppressors of freedom and liberty hope we remain.

Any sort of “reality czar” will see to it.