One of the toughest things for our side is getting it through our skulls that our opponents are not like us. We assume everybody is like us. We assume everybody is interested in objective truth. We assume facts and evidence can sway everybody. We assume that everybody wants the same thing that we do – a free, prosperous, and secure society. Except none of that's true. Our opponents don't want any of that. Our opponents are against all that. Facts, law, evidence – none of it matters, except to the extent that, at this particular moment, these things can support whatever the objective du jour is.

This leads to the phenomenon that we saw after the shooting of the communist poet woman in Minneapolis. The whole thing is on video. It's documented from every angle. There's no argument about what actually happened because it's all there. We see what happened. Now, one can argue about the meaning of what happened – although they also deny the law which governs the facts – but no one can honestly deny the facts themselves. Except they do, and it's hard to deal with.

It's meant to be.

We watch our opponents take facts that we can see, like that the vehicle physically struck the cop, and deny them. "No, he was never struck by her car," insist Democrat politicians, regime media hacks, and communist internet randos. Except he was.

We scratch our heads, point at the video, and say, "Look right here. He's getting knocked out of the way!" But they still deny it. To the extent that some don't deny it, they minimize it. "Oh, he was just winged," as if that's significantly different. Of course, 30 seconds before, their party line was that the agent wasn't even touched.

It would be bizarre, and it would be baffling, except it's perfectly rational. Yes, their denial of the truth – outright lying – is entirely in keeping with their support for their narrative. If the facts don't support the narrative, it's not the narrative that needs to change. It's the facts.

But this drives us crazy because this isn't how we're supposed to do things. We're supposed to be a democracy – yeah, I know it's a........

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