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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The complete lack of introspection and self-awareness of leftist would be laughable if it weren’t so dangerous.
Hilarious
Is this author so completely propagandize that he actually believes what he just wrote? If yes, the propaganda media (AKA mainstream media) has done an even more powerful job than I thought. That is a scary idea
Trump not only has a dedication to the constitution and understand his oath -and others’ oath and their adherence to it and lack thereof, he has actually read te constitution. Which I doubt any cretin in the hose has except gaetz
Orwell has nothing to say about that
Closing the borders and drilling for oil has nothing to do with dictatorship
This is idiotic ranting
Trump seems to generally against online censorship of free speech.
This deserves a WOW! Sadly most of the mental ‘hospitals’ have been closed even though they are obviously much needed.
hitler just aint workin’
Classic leftist projection—accuse your opponents of doing what you are doing.
The left calls censorship “fact checking” and “fighting disinformation”.
We have always been at war with Bad Orange Men.
So, it’s dictatorial to rescind the dictatorial acts of your predecessor?
Best example of liberal projection I’ve seen in awhile...
Ed Tant is a jerkoff
“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.”
ROFWL as Biden is the most authoitarian President since I don’t know when.
I’m pretty sure this guy only opened the 1st page of the book to find a quote for this article but never actually read the book.
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I think those jerks are afraid of discipline itself.
“War is Peace” 1984. Fits Obiden like a glove.
Indeed.
That seems to be the newest slight phrase they have decided to use for this cycle.
His name BTW is Ed Can't, but he writes wit a lisp.
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