Sales of the novel 1984 by George Orwell have surged in the last few days, ever since Trump advisor Kellyanne Conway started talking about “Alternative Facts”. 1984 is currently the fifth best-selling book on Amazon.com.
On Sunday, Conway defended the White House’s statements about the size of the crowd at Trump’s inauguration by referring to it “alternative facts”. What are alternative facts? They are the new phrase used by the Trump administration to explain how White House press secretary Sean Spicer can insist that Trump’s swearing in was “the largest audience to ever witness an inauguration, period” when multiple sources (photos, subway rides, traffic counts) clearly show that it wasn’t even close.
Conway then came up with her own alternative facts, saying “There’s no way to really quantify crowds. We all know that.” Well, if that is true, then why is she insisting that Trump’s was the largest?
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Alt-facts for the alt-right. Makes sense.
this is his mental illness
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narcissistic_personality_disorder
basically he is disabled.
Newt Gingrich- “Feelings are just as valid as facts”. It’s a new world out there.
I think the alt-right is becoming the ctl-right.
Too bad we can’t “ctrl-alt-del” them. Did it disturb anyone else how belligerent and insulting she was to Todd? I definitely got the feeling that now that he’s inaugurated they will be more combative and dismissive of journalists….SAD.
“In the end the Party would announce that two and two made five, and you would have to believe it. It was inevitable that they should make that claim sooner or later: the logic of their position demanded it. Not merely the validity of experience, but the very existence of external reality, was tacitly denied by their philosophy. The heresy of heresies was common sense. And what was terrifying was not that they would kill you for thinking otherwise, but that they might be right. For, after all, how do we know that two and two make four? Or that the force of gravity works? Or that the past is unchangeable? If both the past and the external world exist only in the mind, and if the mind itself is controllable—what then?
Stupidity was as necessary as intelligence, and as difficult to attain.”
― George Orwell, 1984
A better parallel may be Sinclair Lewis’s novel, “It Can’t Happen Here.”