The economy is great. Everyone is happy. Jobs are everywhere. Inflation is practically gone. Opportunity abounds. President Joe Biden deserves all the credit.
If you say otherwise, you might find yourself censored. Cite all the data you want but you’re contradicting a White House priority, which is essentially to lie to everyone until morale improves.
A new Washington Post story, co-authored by the infamous Taylor Lorenz, whom the paper can’t fire without risking years of litigation, has explained that “The White House official said the administration is working with TikTok creators to tell positive stories of Biden’s economic stewardship, while also working with social media platforms to counter misinformation.”
Do you see what’s happening here? The censorship that began with silencing information on the lab leak, extended to stifling opposition to lockdowns, grew wildly intense over vaccines, and has hit even issues of Ukraine and Israel/Gaza is now coming for your assessment of economic conditions.
The trouble is that the White House says everything is great. Vast numbers of regular people disagree. The government says this is because we are all stupid and paying too much attention to misinformation, disinformation, and malinformation that we’re finding online.
You have The Washington Post openly conceding that the government is leaning on all the usual sources (Facebook, TikTok, LinkedIn, YouTube, Google, Pinterest, and so on) to block and throttle accounts that present information contrary to what the elites in Washington want you to believe.
It’s the new frontier of censorship. You can’t say we’re in a “silent depression” even though it seems like we are. You can’t say that the dollar is worth less than ever before, even if it is. You can’t say we’re currently making less than at the height of the Great Depression, even though that’s an interesting argument to be had.
All three are examples of what the authors of the article say is obvious misinformation that should be suppressed. This is because “some economists think these kinds of comments are not just wrong but dangerous.”
Dangerous! It’s dangerous to say we aren’t prosperous and happy!
