This is one of the most concise summaries of the totalitarian ethos I've ever seen. https://twitter.com/60Minutes/status/1082068489597267968

If Congress is serious about taking a bipartisan stand against peddling divisive falsehoods and manipulating public anger for political profit, then whatever happens to MTG should also happen to AOC.

Of course, we all know that won't happen, and AOC succinctly expressed why: in a totalitarian system, the Good and Righteous People of the Ruling Party get to fudge as many details as they please in their pursuit of Deeper Truth. Facts themselves are politicized.

"Don't bug me about the facts because I'm MORALLY right!" is an interesting stance coming from the party that claims to love and revere SCIENCE! above all other things, but of course that's how they view "science" too. Conclusion first, then find or create "data" to support it.

Totalitarianism is the politicization of everything, including science AND morality. Political calculations are much more important than objective truth. Any standard or universal set of rules that would impede Correct Politics must be bent or discarded.

Correct Politicians only want the best for everyone. They are dedicated to the Greater Good. Any rule or standard that would obstruct their pursuit of the Greater Good is, by definition, evil. That is explicitly how left-wing "scholars" view the Constitution.

Do you Beltway and media elites want to know why there is so much distrust for government out there? Why so much faith has been lost in our institutions? It's because people are sick to death of the obvious hypocrisy and double standards. It is RATIONAL to distrust totalitarians.

Do ANY of the myriad laws, rules, and unofficial standard applied to the rest of us also apply to the political and media elite? Is there a SINGLE burden imposed upon us that they are also required to carry? Is there anything left that isn't politicized to perdition?

The Beltway titters at grotesque spectacles like John Kerry flying a carbon-spewing private jet to pick up a climate change award, but it's one more brick on the load of hypocrisy that has crushed all of our faith in government, media, and big business.

We know YOU don't believe the things we are required to believe. We know YOU won't make the sacrifices demanded of us, not even when we're told the very survival of the planet is at stake. We know it's all totalitarian politics.

And it all descends from the ideal so neatly expressed by AOC: if you're "morally right" - politically correct - then you don't have to be "concerned" with being "factually" correct. Such concerns are unacceptable limits on the power of Good People to do the Right Thing. /end