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Erasing the Inconvenient

Photo via Iryna Zarutska's Instagram

What does one do when reality slaps you in the face as a wake-up call?

If you are sane, you wake up. Everybody makes mistakes, which is why the most successful entrepreneurs in recent years move fast, break things, fail early and often, and then succeed. Failing is one of the best ways to learn. 

And then, there are lefties. Lefties know how the world is supposed to be—so much so that when reality begs to differ, they try to give reality a bitch slap. 

The recent spate of horrific crimes by illegal aliens and lifetime felons is an inconvenient truth, to borrow a phrase, so lefties are doing their best to wipe away any memory of them, just as they have wiped away the reality of pandemic fascism, the lawfare and hoaxes about  Trump, and Joe Biden's performance as a Zombie president. 

None of that happened. All right-wing propaganda. 

One of the most gut-wrenching and memorable slaps in the face liberals should have learned from is the murder on a Charlotte light rail train of Iryna Zarutska. The crime was horrific and was caught on camera for the world to see. Iryna's throat was slit by a career criminal, whose main beef with her was that she was young, white, and pretty. 

"Cecarceration," meet real world. 

Which is why Providence Mayor Brett Smiley wants to wipe Iryna from history. Her story rebuts The Narrative™, so it must be wiped from memory

What began as a memorial for a slain Ukrainian refugee has transformed into a political lightning rod in the "Creative Capital," with Mayor Brett Smiley now calling for the artwork's removal.

The mural, located on the exterior of The Dark Lady, a prominent LGBTQ+ club downtown, remains incomplete as city officials and community members clash over its message and funding.

The Mayor’s Office confirmed Sunday that Smiley wants the mural of Iryna Zarutska taken down.

He later released the following statement: "The murder of the individual depicted in this mural was a devastating tragedy, but the misguided, isolating intent of those funding murals like the one across the county is I continue to encourage our community to support local artists whose work brings us closer together rather than divide u. :"

The mayor pretty much admits that he wants the mural painted over because he doesn't like the message that some people will get from it, because that is how lefties roll. 

We see this happen time and again. Liberals will amplify anything they can use to promote their Narrative™, whether true or false, while doing their best to wipe out of history anything that doesn't. 

Victims of illegal aliens or career criminals don't fit the narrative, so they must be wiped from history. 

It's the same impulse that had lefties ripping down posters of Hamas hostages. The victims must be erased, and the left did that not just with fervor but with glee. 

We can't have compassion or empathy for people victimized by the Democrats' heroes. If they had their way, nobody would even know about them. When confronted with reality, Democrats sit in stony silence, because they are certain they are in the right. 

The mass censorship regime the left put in place, and which is still far more powerful than people realize, is all about controlling history and rewriting it. News, history, the range of acceptable thoughts must be stage-managed, all because the reality before our eyes, when we are allowed to see it, contradicts what lefties believe. 

While it is true that X gives us an imperfect glimpse into the real world, like a door out of the Truman Show, only a few million people actually have the time or inclination to plow through the zillions of posts, and we have to sort out the wheat from the chaff. It's not that X is immune to propaganda—much of what you find there is propaganda from all sides—rather, it's that truth is at least discoverable. 

Propaganda is extraordinarily powerful, as is control over the history we are allowed to see. If you doubt that, consider the fact that millions of otherwise sane people got caught up in the alphabet madness, and many still are. If you keep repeating even the most insane things, people will begin to believe it. 

When a multiple felon illegal alien can kill an innocent student in a sanctuary city in a sanctuary state with decarceration policies, and the press will take seriously Pritzker's claim that it is Trump's fault, you know that reality is being twisted into knots. 

Leftists don't believe in reality. They don't get wake-up calls. They don't learn from failures because there are no failures in their world. Just proof that they need to double down. 

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