The Great Reset model of democracy rebooted with an authoritarian core is selling itself with the exact same rhetoric the Chinese Communist Party uses. The CCP also claims its people are "free" and "safe" thanks to their strong central State.
Every single argument you're hearing from woke censors right now is word-for-word identical to what the CCP says when criticized for its tyranny and human rights abuses. No difference at all. Other authoritarian states are growing more proficient with the same rhetoric.
You still have robust freedom of speech - only a paranoid would claim otherwise! It's just that you're not allowed to say false things, as determined by the Ministry of Truth. And you can't say hateful things, as determined by the Ministry of Compassion.
We're banning a few books today, and we'll ban a few more tomorrow, but don't worry - there are still tons of books you're allowed to read. We're just going to silence some haters so that people who speak of love can be heard more clearly.
Only a paranoid lunatic would call us enemies of democracy. We LOVE democracy! In fact, we'll make it better by ensuring you only have high-quality candidates with correct views to vote for. Fringe radicals will no longer be allowed to weaken democracy by gobbling up votes.
We'll make democracy stronger by ensuring core functions of the State, and matters settled forever by a "consensus" of the finest "experts," are placed beyond the reach of renegade voters. We can't have a few elected representatives thwarting the sacred Will of the People!
There are some things you just can't be allowed to resist or vote against, like justice, truth, or unity, as defined by the Ministries of Justice, Truth, and Unity. What kind of a monster would vote against those things? Nobody any good citizen should be listening to, that's who.
There will be fewer issues you're allowed to vote on, or disagree with, but that's necessary to secure the integrity of the State, so it can bring peace, justice, and security to the people. But inside that smaller, safer playground of democracy, you'll be freer than ever!
Don't worry about transparency and accountability, because we're going to make journalism better than ever too, by ensuring only properly accredited, properly trained, ideologically sound members of the Guild of Journalists can practice it. No more disinformation! Hallelujah!
Phony "journalism" from unaccredited renegades sabotages the just and righteous State - which is, need we remind you, synonymous with truth, justice, and security. There are harmful things the people don't need to know. We must be forever on guard against the Russian Bot.
Only card-carrying members of the Journalism Guild, working closely with the friendly State, can bring you the all-important Context citizens need to understand the flood of information bombarding them. Only the guild is trained to spot and suppress Badfacts.
Badfacts are technically "true," in the sense they are things that happened and there is documentation to prove it, but they REDUCE the public's wisdom and understanding because they disrupt context and damage official narratives. They're like rocks sucked into a lawn mower.
Under Democracy 2.0, the public must be protected from Badfacts that would hurt them by damaging the authoritarian core of the State and thwarting its quest for truth, justice, equity, security, and harmony. Journalism, like democracy and speech, will be smaller but BETTER.
One other thing to understand about Democracy 2.0 is that it looks FORWARD, ever forward, to progress and perfection. For that reason, it will be necessary to erase certain troublesome aspects of the past. As with Badfacts, there is Bad History the public must be protected from.
When you're driving down the difficult road toward Utopia, the last thing you need is a bunch of crotchety backseat drivers pointing at exits receding behind you and yelling that you should have turned there. Correct history is a SIMPLE narrative that builds to the bright future.
It would be foolish to teach a version of history that disrupted the operations of the core authoritarian State, interfered with the great quest for justice and equity, or provoked people into questioning the consensus of wise elites. Challenging settled issues is pointless.
Speaking of those settled issues, it would also be pointless and counterproductive to expect the elite to live under the rules they impose on lesser people, or live up to the standards and principles they claim to venerate. That would disrupt the quest for justice and equity.
The referees of a game must be able to move around the field in ways the players cannot, correct? The core operating system must follow different rules than all of the applications running on top of it. Likewise the protected authoritarian core of Democracy 2.0.
Saboteurs cannot be allowed to disrupt the Core State by wantonly charging its wise administrators with hypocrisy or insisting they live by the same rules as the masses. It simply cannot work that way. The rulers MUST be above the rules in order to enforce them.
In order to achieve justice, some people must be treated unfairly. For speech to be MEANINGFULLY free, some must be silenced. Pure Truth can only be distilled by removing Badfacts. Democracy is only constructive when the people understand what they're allowed to vote on.
You can hear all of these arguments in crude, clumsy, hysterical form from the Woke Left in the West today... or you can hear them polished, refined, and taken to their logical conclusion from the Chinese Communist Party. No difference in substance, only presentation. /end
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