The Deep States War on Truth-Waged with Doublespeak, Delusion and Propaganda by John & Nisha Whitehead!
(2025-03-07 at 07:16:18 )

The Deep States War on Truth-Waged with Doublespeak, Delusion and Propaganda by John & Nisha Whitehead!

"Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind." - George Orwell

The Deep States war on truth is being waged with doubletalk, delusion and propaganda.

Through deliberate manipulation of language-what George Orwell called "doublespeak"-Donald Trump has provided cover for the Deep States continued grip on power.

While promising to drain the swamp, his administration has instead relied on contradictory policies, misinformation, and propaganda to further entrench the very system he claims to oppose. Although the Trump administration is merely the latest frontman for the Deep States efforts to maintain its stranglehold on power, we are approaching a tipping point beyond which there may be no turning back to freedom as we have known it.

This is how "we the people" remain on the losing end of this devils bargain that is life in the American police state.

What we desperately need is a reality check, and that starts by disconnecting from the Deep States propaganda-riddled, manipulated alternative reality about the state of our nation.

While President Trump, well versed in the "art of the deal," appears to be saying all the right things about peace, corruption, graft, wasteful spending, free speech, equality, bloated bureaucracy, national security, etc., his administrations actions tell a far different story about his priorities and his loyalties, which remain self-serving, imperial, flagrantly unconstitutional and intended to keep the Deep State in power.

As always, actions speak louder than words.

When the Constitution and the Bill of Rights are still missing from the White Houses website, that oversight-or deliberate omission-speaks volumes.

Any government that can not be bothered to include the Constitution among its priorities, or include it anywhere on its administrations website, is not a government that can be trusted to abide by the Constitution.

Then again, trust has little to do with it.

The United States Constitution is a contract between the people and the government. What we have been experiencing over the course of both Republican and Democratic presidencies, is a breach of contract. Where the Trump administration differs from those that have come before it is in its willingness to go rogue in defiance of Congress, the courts and the rule of law.

You do not wage a "common sense" revolution by discarding the Constitution. That way lies dictatorship.

Remember, how you do something is just as important as why you do it.

So, what is really going on?

As a populace, we have become so desensitized to political lies, especially Trumps barrage of lies, that we shrug them off and move on. But in doing so, we act as enablers for what hides beneath those lies.

Make no mistake: the Deep State-the real Deep State, not the decoy version of it that Trump trots out to justify dismantling our constitutional republic-hides behind that rhetoric.

As journalist Shawn McCreesh explains, "In order to remake the government, President Trump and his administration are remaking the language used to describe the government. An entire lexicon of progressive terminology nurtured by the last administration has been squelched. In its place is a new vocabulary, honed by the president and echoed by his many imitators in the capital. It is a vocabulary containing many curious uses of doublespeak."

Doublespeak, as media scholar Edward S. Herman defines it, is characterized by "the ability to lie, whether knowingly or unconsciously, and to get away with it; and the ability to use lies and choose and shape facts selectively, blocking out those that do not fit an agenda or program."

The term is derived from George Orwells 1984, in which "doublethink" and "Newspeak" are used to manipulate the masses into going along with the governments agenda.

In true Orwellian fashion, Trump has mastered the art of doublespeak.

For example, McCreesh points to "one presidential order titled "Ending the Weaponization of the Federal Government" [that] calls for weaponizing the federal government against itself. Another titled "Ending Radical Indoctrination in K-12 Schooling" demands that "patriotic education" be taught to children.. Even as the president signed an executive order titled "Restoring Freedom of Speech and Ending Federal Censorship," he signed other orders policing language."

Consider some of Trumps other uses of alternative facts, misdirection and misnomers to advance the Deep States agenda.

In true doublespeak fashion, Trumps path to peace leads to more war. At the same time that he is threatening to halt military aid to Ukraine in the name of securing peace with Russia, Trumps administration is sending $4 billion in weapons and ammunition to Israel so it can continue to wage war on Gaza.

Trumps path to nationalism by way of isolationism is in fact empire building. At the same time that Trump is declaring himself a nationalist, breaking ranks with Americas allies, withdrawing from international accords, and ceding ground to authoritarian regimes such as Russia, he is also declaring his intent to lay claim to foreign lands such as Gaza, Greenland and Canada as part of a global power grab.

Trumps path to saving money is spending money. At the same time that Trump claims to be shining a spotlight on wasteful spending in the hopes of balancing the budget, he is also as guilty of spending-and wasting-taxpayer dollars at an alarming rate. At the same that he is empowering Elon Musks Department of Government Efficiency to drastically reduce the federal workforce in a bid to save money, he is pushing tax cuts that would add $5-10 trillion to the 10-year deficit. As Reuters reports, DOGEs savings claims are thus far "unverifiable and its calculations have been riddled with errors and corrections."

Trumps path to law and order is allowing the police to act lawlessly. At the same time that the Trump administration is advocating for impose harsher penalties and increased prison sentences, even for nonviolent crimes, Trump is dismantling government policies aimed at holding police accountable for official misconduct.

Trumps path to efficiency is giving rise to even greater inefficiency. Likening DOGE to a chainsaw hacking away at a bloated bureaucracy, Musk has been wiping out whole segments of the federal workforce, agency by agency, with little thought to what programs might suffer as a result or how to keep the government functioning. As CNN reports, "There have been a lot of reports of federal workers being fired then quickly rehired once agencies realized people with critical skills had been let go..for example: Those managing the United States nuclear arsenal, and those working at USDA on the response to the bird flu outbreak."

Trumps path to economic triumph is spelling economic disaster. Trump continues to forge ahead with his imposition of tariffs on Americas major trading partners despite warnings from economists and the business sector alike that tariffs will hurt, rather than help, the economy and could lead to a recession and a spike in inflation.

Trumps path to draining the swamp is letting the swamp run the show. Building on the same patterns he exhibited during his first term, when Trump populated his administration with individuals engaged in a pattern of wasteful and extravagant spending on themselves at the taxpayers expense, Trump is once again prioritizing personal profit over the American people.

Trumps path to free speech is censorship. At the same time that Trump claims to be liberating conservative speech from the muzzling power of political correctness, he is embarking on a massive crackdown on lawful First Amendment activities that would criminalize protest activities and punish individuals and groups advocating for policies that contradict White House executive orders.

Trumps path to transparency is replacing watchdogs with yes-men and loyalists. At the same time that Trump claims to be bringing transparency back to government, his administration is methodically dismantling all of the systemic checks intended to protect whistleblowers and serve as bulwarks against government corruption.

Trumps path to ending cancel culture is more cancel culture. At the same time that Trump has declared war against left-leaning, politically correct "wokeness," he is replacing it with a right-leaning cancel culture that aims to do exactly what the left was accused of doing: renaming public spaces, erasing offensive parts of history, and silencing the opposition.

When you set aside the mountain of contradictory policies and propaganda that have become hallmarks of Trumps time in office, a grim picture emerges: Trumps efforts to make America great again are really just a variation on one theme, which is keeping the Deep State in power at the expense of our freedoms.

Indeed, George Orwells fictional 1984 could increasingly be mistaken for the Trump Administrations instruction manual on how to remake the government in the dystopian image of Oceania, the authoritarian regime run by Big Brother.

While Americas founders envisioned a separation of powers held in check by three coequal branches of government (executive, legislative and judicial) as the means of thwarting abuse by any one branch, Orwells Oceania has four branches of government (the Ministry of Truth, the Ministry of Peace, the Ministry of Love, and the Ministry of Plenty) that work together to maintain Big Brothers chokehold on power.

As Orwell explains, "The Ministry of Peace concerns itself with war, the Ministry of Truth with lies, the Ministry of Love with torture and the Ministry of Plenty with starvation. These contradictions are not accidental, nor do they result from ordinary hypocrisy: they are deliberate exercises in doublethink."

According to Orwell, "Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in ones mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them."

Thus, the Ministry of Peace is tasked with waging perpetual war in order to keep the government in power. The Ministry of Love is tasked with meting out torture and punishment in order to brainwash the populace into loving Big Brother. The Ministry of Plenty is tasked with maintaining a state of perpetual poverty, scarcity and financial shortages, the rationale being that an impoverished populace is easier to control. And the Ministry of Truth is tasked with disseminating propaganda and rewriting history and language in order to keep the citizens compliant.

The key to this last undertaking, maintaining a chokehold on power, is what Nazi propaganda chief Joseph Goebbels referred to as the "big lie."

"If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it," stated Goebbels. "The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and-or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State."

Hannah Arendt, writing in The Origins of Totalitarianism, came to the same conclusion:

"In an ever-changing, incomprehensible world the masses had reached the point where they would, at the same time, believe everything and nothing, think that everything was possible and that nothing was true.. The totalitarian mass leaders based their propaganda on the correct psychological assumption that, under such conditions, one could make people believe the most fantastic statements one day, and trust that if the next day they were given irrefutable proof of their falsehood, they would take refuge in cynicism; instead of deserting the leaders who had lied to them, they would protest that they had known all along that the statement was a lie and would admire the leaders for their superior tactical cleverness."

This is how that slippery slope to authoritarianism begins, with lies that masquerade as truths and a populace disinclined to think for themselves.

Which brings us back to the tactics being deployed by the Trump administration.

Conformity, compliance and group think are necessary ingredients for tyrants to succeed.

Yet as historian Anne Applebaum writes in The Atlantic, "We are not a theocracy or a monarchy that accepts the word of the leader or the priesthood as law. We are a democracy that debates facts, seeks to understand problems, and then legislates solutions, all in accordance with a set of rules."

The answer, as I make clear in my book "Battlefield America: The War On The American People" and in its fictional counterpart The Erik Blair Diaries, is that we must re-learn what it means to think for ourselves.

Pay attention. Question everything. Dare to be different. Do not follow the mob. Do not let yourself become numb to the world around you. Be compassionate. Be humane. Most of all, do not allow yourselves to become so desensitized to Trumps brand of politics that you tolerate behavior in government officials that you would never tolerate from your own children (lying, bullying, name-calling, greed, etc.).

When all is said and done, Trumps path to putting America First is really about putting Trump first and leaving Americans in bondage to the Deep State.

In Orwells world, the state maintained power through deception.

In Trumps United Statess of America, doublespeak remains the Deep States most powerful weapon-one that thrives as long as the public fails to recognize it for what it is-and Trump is proving to be its most effective mouthpiece.

Reprinted here with the gracious permission of "The Rutherford Institute" - Dedicated To The Defense Of Civil Liberties And Human Rights!!