Carrying a pom pom hat and mittens and shovel in hand, a smiling Michelle Wu is attempting to persuade residents that the large snow mounds plaguing metropolis streets should not a nasty factor, however a joyful expertise.
“That is winter, that is New England and there can be snow piles,” the ever cheerful Boston mayor mentioned Wednesday morning whereas serving to shovel out a Mattapan elementary college’s sidewalks.
Her Orwellian technique of telling individuals don’t consider your eyes, consider what you’re advised, comes after she acquired blowback from residents after the primary storm in January paralyzed the town for days.
Within the aftermath of that storm, Wu’s public works division did not eliminate the snow quick sufficient to unclog aspect streets and sidewalks, leaving pedestrians and motorists navigating a harmful state of affairs in Boston for days.
This time the Democratic mayor was extra ready and adjusted her technique, selecting to painting the snow as a mandatory however joyous event.
Wu launched movies on social media platforms set to peppy music and exhibiting her driving a snowplow and her younger son making a snowman. Town additionally hosted snow shoveling “meet ups” through which neighbors helped neighbors to shovel out.
Her public works division additionally did a greater job of eliminating the white stuff, sending out a whole bunch of vehicles to take it to the town’s snow farms.
However it was her optimistic perspective that was most notable – a stark distinction to the dour-faced Democrats who shouted and glared at President Donald Trump throughout his State of the Union deal with.
Wu is exhibiting her fellow social gathering leaders – who by the way in which can be serving to decide a presidential and vice presidential nominee in 2028 – that you simply don’t must be a grumpy Debbie Downer on a regular basis.
Even when she is attacking Trump and defending Boston, she does it with a figuring out smile.
Now post-blizzard, Wu is attempting to make what everybody else sees as a troublesome state of affairs – with pedestrians trapped and unable to get by way of the tiny pathways that was once sidewalks – a chance to glow, making it appear to be all of the residents are at a Winterfest.
It’s a optimistic spin to the intense – like saying {that a} hurricane is a superb time to fly a kite.
Wu is taking a web page actually out of George Orwell’s “1984,” through which the totalitarian authorities – led by the Ministry of Fact and the Thought Police – tells residents that “struggle is peace” and “ignorance is power.”
“Energy is in tearing human minds to items and placing them collectively once more in new shapes of your personal selecting,” writes Orwell.
Orwell and Wu additionally appear to be followers of Doublethink, which implies “the ability of holding two contradictory beliefs in a single’s thoughts concurrently, and accepting each of them.”
In Boston now, meaning wanting on the enormous mountains of soiled snow and Wu’s smiling proclamation that snow is enjoyable and accepting each beliefs.
Possibly that’s how she acquired re-elected with over 70% of the vote.
