Penna Dexter

In these days, do you sometimes find yourself struggling to discern truth from lies? Do you sense that bedrock principles regarding culture and politics are being mercilessly challenged? Do sources of information you once found reliable now seem shaky?

We’re being targeted by a powerful propaganda technique called reality suppression. In a recent Substack article, author and filmmaker Christopher Rufo unpacks how the Left suppresses reality in order to maintain “its control over the discourse.”

Chris Rufo explains: ”The technique of reality suppression is designed to persuade your opponent not to believe what is in front of him.”

He gives three examples. One is COVID. Where did the pandemic come from? If the evidence had you convinced or at least suspicious that it was from a lab leak, it was deemed racist or too antagonistic toward China to say so. Skepticism of the vaccine was dismissed as anti-science. The possibility of natural immunity was dismissed.

Hence, either by censorship or intimidation, reality was suppressed.

The second example of reality suppression is critical race theory. Chris Rufo brought CRT to public attention and surfaced a massive body of evidence to show how it was being taught in schools. But the Left employed its media outlets to deny that CRT even existed. “Pure reality suppression,” says Mr. Rufo. “Taking something that is obviously real, that is substantiated by evidence and just using a blanket denial to say something that exists does not exist.”

Chris Rufo’s third example is immigration — massive numbers of illegals flowing across the border and into the interior of the country. The establishment media ignores or plays down the danger of criminals, specifically Venezuelan gang members bringing murder, drugs, and human trafficking into sanctuary cities like New York, places like Aurora, Colorado, and even suburbs around the country.

To fight reality suppression, Mr. Rufo says trust your own observation and intuition. And seek out reliable sources of information.