Facts must be destroyed.

Canadian fisheries have been collapsing for decades, but the Conservatives didn't want to talk about that. They shut down the collection of data on fisheries and moved or closed down the libraries, all to keep the commercial fisheries running until collapse was complete. It's the equivalent of closing your eyes, putting your fingers in your ears, and shouting "I can't hear you!" to avoid dealing with a big, serious problem.

This is EXACTLY the approach Turnip took w/COVID -- he said the problem wasn't the cases of illness, but the fact that the cases were being reported, and took action to prevent them from being reported -- thus "solving" the problem (the problem, in his mind, being that large numbers of COVID cases made him look bad). So more people -- lots more people -- got sick and died, but he was spared being embarrassed by them (so he thought). Rachel showed a video last night (IIRC) of Turnip saying all this at one of his rallies and my attention was on the audience this time -- all the Red Hat People were nodding along as he expounded on this delusion, as if it all made perfect sense. DISGUSTING !!

To go back a little further in history, all this seems to be in imitation of Soviet-style "news" which was always favorable and never critical -- life was always perfect in the Workers' Paradise, while Democratic/Capitalist countries (which we know are not necessarily always the same thing) were in constant turmoil and chaos. Of course people had to believe it, because it was printed in a paper called "Pravda" ("Truth" ). Contradictory evidence was even deleted from past printings of the Great Soviet Encyclopedia, with new pages inserted to provide "authentic" photographs from which purged individuals were airbrushed out. "Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past". 2025 is the long form operating manual; 1984 was the "Read Me" version.