Posted on 04/24/2024 10:04:32 AM PDT by DallasBiff
“It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.” So begins 1984, author George Orwell’s frightening novel about citizens under the thrall of a dictatorship. “Big Brother is watching you” is a threat and a warning to the populace that is surveilled by the all-seeing eye of the “telescreen” that tracks their every move while also pacifying them with cheap entertainment and state propaganda. “War is Peace. Freedom is Slavery. Ignorance is Strength” are watchwords of the shadowy, thuggish regime in Orwell’s cautionary tale of tyranny rampant in a future world where courage is quashed while complacency and compliance are expected and enforced.
Flash forward to today’s bleak political landscape.The fictional dystopia of 1984 was an imaginary world, but an authoritarian regime could become an American reality in 2024 if Donald Trump returns to the White House. Trump has long had a fascination with political strongmen in such countries as Russia, China, Turkey, Hungary and North Korea. He has made remarks about using dictatorial powers to close the borders and drill for oil on his first day back in office if he wins in November. George Orwell warned long ago that there is no such thing as “dictator for a day” when he said, “We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it.”
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Big Brother was a stand-in for the BBC (Big Brother Corp). The Party was NOT an outside force like Trump. It was the wheels of IngSoc grinding everyone who resisted the smallest edict in the slightest way, like the J6 protesters.
The DoubleThink is strong in this author.
Democracy is imprisoning your political opponents.
Truth is misinformation.
Projection.
The left has finally realized that our comparisons to Orwell’s 1984 are hitting a nerve with voters, so it’s time to accuse their opposition of what they’re guilty of.
We’ve seen projection from the left regularly for decades now, and in the last few years it’s become a tsunami.
Ya and they add to the New Speak list every day.
Hogwash!......................Projection is what they do...................
Laughable!
As usual, liberals get it 100% backwards.
As usual, listen to what the Dems are accusing other of to find out what they are already doing.
What do these idiots think Biden’s been doing? Government Censorship? Check. Lawfare? Check.
When you hate America, you hate MAGA.
Seriously, this amount of gaslighting is toxic.... lol.
They spend everyday telling us not believe our own eyes and censor folks not buying the narratives. It almost like theyre hoping nobody in their audience has actually read the book, just heard the cliff notes.
“ROFWL as Biden is the most authoitarian President since I don’t know when.”
Lenin was really horrible; then Stalin, a complete nightmare, followed him. Obola was our Lenin, Biden is our Stalin.
Obviously did NOT read the 1984 Orwell Book! Nothing could be more obvious how wrong this comparison is!! Unless of course this “writer” is actually working for Big Brother— who is very worried of having their created LIES exposed and their fake “nat security” crapola exposed in Ukraine as a kickback scheme.... a money sink.
What an odd name for a “columnist”- Color Bearer of Athens, GA.... there are a lot of real Color Bearers who are Veterans of Real Wars. Who is this clown- this uniformed warped clown? Knows nothing of Orwell, a rather well studied author, as well as his life changes from the Lincoln Brigade to realization of what World Communism actually was becoming, and... still is trying to metamorphose into “climate emergency” fictional crises, one after another after another— and all WRONG.
Did these people even read it?
This article is garbage.
But really we're a little bit 1984, a little bit Brave New World, but mostly The Marching Morons.
I’m sure he pees sitting down.
Trump is Emmanuel Goldstein.
The FBI and NSA has been monitoring this forum since 1998..
Video of the J6 “insurrectionists," their bank records, phone records being confiscated without warrant.
Canceling people the government doesn't like.
Selective prosecution under the color of law.
I could go on... denial of First and Second amendment rights...
Orwell was a prophet. And the left made it a blueprint for tyranny.
Just like Saul Alinsky's Rules for Radicals..
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