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    ERIC ARTHUR BLAIR a.k.a. GEORGE ORWELL
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    George Orwell wrote his prophetic masterpiece 1984 barely three years after Europe was liberated from the oppressive grip of Nazi socialism. Victory notwithstanding, Orwell remained preoccupied with the ease and speed with which a nation's freedom could be lost. Freedom's strength was also liberty's fragility — a free people could choose to relinquish freedom. This poignant lesson was Orwell's wake-up call that the great draconian nightmare hadn't ended — it was merely postponed.

    This existential threat must have terrified Orwell so deeply that he envisioned the resurgence of a tyrannical society a mere 36 years after the blitzkrieg of World War II. Even with today's 2020 hindsight, one wonders how he could have so accurately predicted the impending demise of civilization. His only miscalculation was the appointed year. Nineteen eighty-four came and went without fanfare despite the chilling effects of a "cold war," a term Orwell coined to describe his "peace that is no peace." His timing may well have proven accurate were it not for one unknown unknown in Orwell's visionary acumen: Ronald Reagan.

    Now, 36 years after 1984's forecast, 2020 offers itself as an eerie time portal — a way back to the future of Orwell's prophetic world of freedom lost.

    Much like today, Orwell's world of 1984 was divided into three warring superstates: Oceania, which included Great Britain and the Americas; Eurasia, controlled by Russia; and Eastasia, dominated by China. Oceania, a totalitarian regime founded from an anti-capitalist revolution, was ruled by the Party under Big Brother's leadership and enforced by the Thought Police (Thinkpol), which served as judge and jury for offenses against Party doctrine. Nonconformists were broken until they finally surrendered under their own free will. As Orwell wrote: "We do not destroy the heretic ... we capture his inner mind, we reshape him." Today, this psychological oppression and censorship is carried out by "cancel culture" agitators and platforms like Google, Facebook, and Twitter, which suppress all opposing viewpoints — mostly recently a New York Post story on the Bidens.

    A first step in the loss of freedom is the voluntary loss of privacy. In 1984, the populace of Oceania is constantly monitored by the Party via omnipresent telescreens. Today's smartphones are the counterparts of these invasive telescreens, tracking every user's location, consumer preferences, and personal habits.

    Orwell's protagonist, Winston Smith, represents humanity's last hope of regaining this lost freedom. Smith works as a clerk in the Ministry of Truth, where he forges historical documents to reconcile the Party's ever changing platform — obliterating all contradictory government policies and blundered predictions in a contraption called a memory hole. Today, technology allows mainstream media to seamlessly rewrite stories or instantaneously alter TV chyrons, creating an endless stream of fake news.

    Winston, who secretly loathes the Party, develops a politically forbidden relationship with his colleague Julia, a free-spirited rebel. Winston's intimate encounter with Julia not only reawakens his sense of humanity, but dispels his long held distain for the proles (proletariats), the non-Party residents of Oceania whose counterparts are today's "deplorables." In his rebellious act, Winston realizes that, unlike Party members, the proles remain loyal to each other. They hadn't hardened on the inside and, as such, had retained their humanity. What Winston now fears most was not the grueling confession the Party will surely extract from them; it is the prospect of betraying each other. As long as the Party cannot get inside his head, Winston believes he can stay human.

    The Orwellian world of 1984 differs significantly from the dystopian Brave New World of Aldous Huxley. Orwell predicted that government tyranny would be achieved by inflicting pain and psychological trauma. Huxley believed that this control would depend upon sanctioned narcissistic pleasures, such as the orgy porgy of drugs and group sex.

    Today's political climate more closely supports Orwell's prognosis. Fear and pain overpower hedonistic pleasures. When Winston and Julia are finally entrapped by the Thinkpol, Winston initially remains unbroken under his physical torture. But his greatest psychological fears await in the infamous Room 101. When the torment is too much to bear, Winston commits the unforgivable sin of betraying Julia, pleading that she take his place. His humanity, only recently regained, is lost forever.

    Today, governments often rely on fear to control the population. In his techno-thriller State of Fear, Michael Crichton elaborates on the overwhelming role fear can play in government control. "Never let a crisis go to waste" is a common paraphrase of Saul Alinsky's Rules for Radicals. Most crises are difficult to elevate to doomsday pitch. Global warming, for instance, lacks the immediacy and personal impact to promote widespread fear-mongering. Yet, on occasion, a crisis may arise that strikes fear even in the fearless. COVID-19 is a case in point. Government lockdowns that would normally be impossible are now mostly accepted.

    Another powerful tool for achieving group control is hatred. Like fear, hatred's consuming obsession can overwhelm large groups of people into addictive frenzy. In 1984, the citizens of Oceania are subjected to daily "Two Minute Hate" sessions and a weeklong Hate Holiday. This practice has been carried to extremes in recent years with the nearly 24-7 "Trump" hate forums that are broadcast by even once respected news outlets.

    Newspeak is Oceania's official language, a linguistic tool that fosters the Party's ideologies of English Socialism. Its aim is to limit thought. "Orthodoxy," Orwell wrote, "means not thinking — not needing to think." Today we call this groupthink, something that ironically abounds on college campuses. Individualism in Oceania is equated with eccentricity and given the derogatory Newspeak term ownlife.

    Concepts like objectivity and rationalism are contained in the single Newspeak word oldthink. Orwell lamented that in 1984, "[t]he heresy of heresies was common sense." This is not surprising, since common sense implies a universal basis upon which decisions are justified. For a society espousing moral relativism, there is no absolute truth or moral judgment — no standard for common sense.

    Orwell forewarned that once Newspeak fully superseded Oldspeak, the last link with the past would be severed. The Declaration of Independence could then be translated only into the single Newspeak word crimethink.

    The family unit is intentionally disrupted in the world of 1984. The Party prevents men and women from forming loyalties. All this is based on the Party's fear that a stable family structure cannot be controlled. Today, organizations like Black Lives Matter openly renounce the nuclear family on their own websites, effectively leaving many of today's single mothers married to the same husband: Uncle Sam. Many on the left, like Hillary Clinton, believe that government is the breadwinner of today's family — professing that "it takes a village" to raise a family. The irony is that a village is the human community least dependent upon government intervention.

    Organizations like BLM, Planned Parenthood, and Antifa rely on doublethink, a Newspeak term describing the ability to simultaneously hold two opposing opinions. Planned Parenthood is hardly about parenting, despite its child-centered name. Groups like Antifa adopt names evoking noble-sounding causes to shield their radical activities from criticism — a tactic used by terrorist organizations like al-Qaeda, who hunker down in schools and hospitals to avoid being attacked.

    The Ministry of Peace oversees Oceania's war effort in the continuous struggle that exists among the three superstates. In Orwell's world of 1984, "the consciousness of being at war, and therefore in danger, makes handing-over of all power to a small caste seem the natural, unavoidable condition of survival." Today, this concept of perpetual warfare has given rise to a politically formidable and profitable military-industrial complex.

    American history now teeters alongside a bottomless memory hole of toppling statues and once inalienable rights. If we fail to heed this Orwellian future and neglect to dot our is and cross our ts, the United States may well become the Untied States of America.

    It's been said that the best way to predict the future is to choose it. The plight of today's politically polarized society is epitomized in the pivotal dilemma of the Matrix. The time has come to choose the red or blue pill — accept the unpleasant truth or remain in blissful ignorance.


    October 23, 2020
    Are We Approaching the Real-Life World of Orwell's 1984?
    By Joseph E. Ciotti

    https://www.americanthinker.com/arti..._em1984em.html

    Free Americans were approaching the prophesies in the novel 1984 in 1903 —— the year Blair was born. Blair’s only failing was not tying his insight to parasites.


    Parasites will always find a way to get paid for doing nothing more than preaching their moral garbage. That is why parasites brought down every civilization, every empire, every country, every culture that ever was, than did any other factor. This country will be no different so long as income is taxed.

    https://www.justplainpolitics.com/sh...15#post3443715

    NOTE: Had there been no World War One, or World War Two, free people everywhere would still be heading towards 1984 because of the lies parasites have been telling for more than two centuries. I suspect frustrated do-gooders had to be lying in 1794 in order to get the money:


    In 1794, when Congress appropriated $15,000 for relief of French refugees who fled from insurrection in San Domingo to Baltimore and Philadelphia, James Madison stood on the floor of the House to object saying, "I cannot undertake to lay my finger on that article of the Constitution which granted a right to Congress of expending, on objects of benevolence, the money of their constituents." James Madison, 4 Annals of congress 179 (1794)

    Like every organized religion each lie begins as a deliberate lie. Organized religion’s priests never denied their objective; a better life in the hereafter. (What kind of sick minds believe they will get 76 virgins in the next life?)

    Socialists never tell the truth about their objectives. (Socialist priests deliver virgins to perverts in this life —— the younger the better.)

    Every organized religion lie grew in size and scope century after century. The more money parasite priests controlled, the harder it was to destroy the lies.

    Basically, Socialism/Communism spread faster and wider than did every other religion because its priesthood accessed the public purse beginning in 1794. Every other organized religion throughout history had to rely on voluntary contributions. After 1913, every religion’s priesthood got billions of tax dollars right alongside the Democrat Party’s priesthood.

    Here is a sampling of Socialism’s/Communism’s most pervasive lies:

    1. Teachers are so truthful they must be paid tax dollars.

    2. Universal socialized medicine will care for the sick.

    3. The human race is 10 years away from extinction unless global warming is reversed.

    4. Racism is America’s greatest evil.

    5. National borders must be abolished.

    Every lie Democrats tell is repeated every day —— all day —— à la 1984.

    Finally, every Democrat with a public voice is a composite of Joseph Goebbels and the fictional character O’Brien in 1984:


    If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State. Joseph Goebbels
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    The basic test of freedom is perhaps less in what we are free to do than in what we are free not to do. It is the freedom to refrain, withdraw and abstain which makes a totalitarian regime impossible. Eric Hoffer

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    Quote Originally Posted by Flanders View Post
    Every lie Democrats tell is repeated every day —— all day —— à la 1984.
    Indeed.

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    TL ; DR

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    Quote Originally Posted by Matt Dillon View Post
    TL ; DR
    TS; WC

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    As Patrick Moynihan said a few decades ago the middle class has lost its ability to rule itself; too fat, too affluent, too doped up on Prozac ti rusk its riding lawn mowers and big screen TVs for any 'Cause', even their own survival. The 'elites' who hate them and their 'interference' can now use their hired street thugs to eradicate them, both at the polls and literally soon afterwards, by playing on the violent racism of blacks, illegal aliens, and simpleton white burb brats indoctrinated by the school systems and universities into inane self-hatred. The 'elites' and their global labor racketeering made so much money off of 'socialist' countries like Red China they now want to get rid of the only demographics left who stand in the way of repeating the 'Glorious Revolutions' here, and cut out the 'middle man' Cadres they have to pay off in Red China and similar dictatorships.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Chuck View Post
    As Patrick Moynihan said a few decades ago the middle class has lost its ability to rule itself; too fat, too affluent, too doped up on Prozac ti rusk its riding lawn mowers and big screen TVs for any 'Cause', even their own survival. The 'elites' who hate them and their 'interference' can now use their hired street thugs to eradicate them, both at the polls and literally soon afterwards, by playing on the violent racism of blacks, illegal aliens, and simpleton white burb brats indoctrinated by the school systems and universities into inane self-hatred. The 'elites' and their global labor racketeering made so much money off of 'socialist' countries like Red China they now want to get rid of the only demographics left who stand in the way of repeating the 'Glorious Revolutions' here, and cut out the 'middle man' Cadres they have to pay off in Red China and similar dictatorships.
    Elites have collected loads of money by selling America out to China, which made their program of global domination much easier. It is now possible to imagine America taking the knee for China without even the need to lose a war with China first.
    This illegal illegitimate regime that runs America is at fault...not me.... they do not represent me and I have long objected to their crimes against humanity.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Hawkeye10 View Post
    Elites have collected loads of money by selling America out to China, which made their program of global domination much easier. It is now possible to imagine America taking the knee for China without even the need to lose a war with China first.
    Yep. The top 10% now own over 87% of the stocks and equity in the U.S., up from 82% at the end of the Obama administration, so it is really just a matter of time and those borders get thrown wide open to finish off the country. In a two-Party system where neither Party supports our country as a nation it's a wonder we're still alive, actually.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Chuck View Post
    Yep. The top 10% now own over 87% of the stocks and equity in the U.S., up from 82% at the end of the Obama administration, so it is really just a matter of time and those borders get thrown wide open to finish off the country. In a two-Party system where neither Party supports our country as a nation it's a wonder we're still alive, actually.
    You seem like a smart guy....I recommend the following....long and depressing as fuck but so far as I can see almost all correct as too how fucked we are:
    This illegal illegitimate regime that runs America is at fault...not me.... they do not represent me and I have long objected to their crimes against humanity.

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    It's a good OP. Rather long, though.

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    Barack Obama ran and governed as a spiritual leader because he was too stupid, too angry, and too self-centered to govern a free people. Now I can see it was more than that:


    “For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.”—Ephesians 6:12


    The specter of Communism hangs over our country like an apparition, a godless spirit come back to find roost. This scourge is making a resurgence throughout the world, achievable only because America is in grave danger of death from within, death by a thousand cuts. This evil is hovering over the one target it must totally destroy in order to haul away the remaining plunder in the world. But, this time it is being sold as Democratic Socialism, making you think you will have a choice. You will, but it will be the last choice you will ever make. Democratic Socialism will morph into Communism, which always persists by force. And many are buying.

    The Communists decided many years ago to destroy our country from within

    The Communists decided many years ago to destroy our country from within, the permeation of our culture with godless Marxism, the so-called Cultural Marxism. The Trojan Horse we allowed into our country many years ago, the horse we were warned repeatedly about, has been leaking into our country all manner of bad actors who are filled with cultural, social, moral, and governmental corruption. And the damage is now legion.

    These bad actors, these officials in high places, no matter the crime they commit, never see justice. We’ve entered an era where we investigate everything, but arrest no one.

    I had to highlight this:

    The home of these black marketeers is the Democrat Party, always distraught over the lack of social justice, but undisturbed by the absence of criminal justice.

    And this:


    Freedom of the press and the media in the United States has all but died, taken over by propagandists Goebbels would be proud to call his own.


    Quote Originally Posted by Flanders View Post
    Finally, every Democrat with a public voice is a composite of Joseph Goebbels and the fictional character O’Brien in 1984:


    Robert Reich, liberal economics professor, once adviser to Obama, is proposing a Truth & Reconciliation Commission, to decide what is true and revealing past wrongdoing. In other words, the government will decide truth and work at tearing scabs off past wounds. Pontius Pilate didn’t know what truth was, but this cabal believes they will know. A frightening prospect.

    Social websites and Big Tech are completely controlled by those who have kneeled to the socialist order, not understanding their lives are in danger as well. Stories unfavorable to Democrats are buried. Criticisms are removed, accounts closed. The only 1st Amendment freedom to be found is in a few media outlets and underground websites. Speech is now being monitored everywhere for political correctness. Daring to go your own way will bring about retribution. We see it every day.

    A Biden presidency will be short, but chaotic, if at all

    Much of our moral stature is now farcical, even in many of our churches, the once bulwark of our society. The places of worship left standing are under assault. God is under full attack. Churches and synagogues have been ordered to close under the guise of a pandemic that kills less than 1% of its victims, and only those who have serious underlying conditions. Nevertheless, the Left is trading in fear, using it to the full. If these Marxists take control, expect COVID to be around indefinitely. It will be used as a weapon to control every aspect of your life. Every sacred institution will be assaulted. Private schools, especially parochial schools, will be closed with the excuse of COVID-19. The government will use COVID as a weapon to close or control any institution or business it finds not to their liking. Power is a hard thing to relinquish and this bunch has no intention of giving anything back.

    Judge Barrett is criticized for being a practicing Catholic. How far the Democrat Party has traveled from the days of JFK, the brief zenith of the Democratic National Committee. The current Pope is now even trading in socialism, pronouncing the evils of capitalism, self-reliance, and individualism for the promise of redistribution. Redistribution and handouts never helped anyone long term. Appeal to a person’s individuality and desires, give someone the dignity of a good job with the freedom to excel and he feeds himself and his family for a lifetime.

    A Biden presidency will be short, but chaotic, if at all. Considering the new revelations concerning Biden’s extracurricular business dealings, he may be replaced on the ticket, possibly with Harris, Clinton, Sanders, or…John Kasich.

    In any case, disorder will be everywhere. Whether out of the new Democrat administration’s ignorance or disregard, Antifa will roam the countryside looking for those not adhering to the new order. No brick and mortar business will be safe, turning millions of livelihoods into shambles, worse than it already is. The oil industry will be destroyed forcing a Don Quixote vision of grandeur on a climate that is God’s to control. Borders will be opened. Black Lives Matter will be pushing their Marxist agenda under the cloak of racial and social progress. There will be an untold number of government power grabs. Corruption will be everywhere, all looking to benefit by the new paradigm, exempting themselves from the upheaval to come.

    Our country will be ripe for the picking. At the height of the chaos, a cabal from the dark reaches of the New World Order group will arrive to seemingly calm the scene and take control.

    They will have what they have wanted for many years. With the United States in their grip, they will have the world.

    Oh, the weight on the shoulders of the one person standing in the way. May God help him.


    The Specter of Communism
    By Ray DiLorenzo
    October 24, 2020

    https://canadafreepress.com/article/...r-of-communism
    The basic test of freedom is perhaps less in what we are free to do than in what we are free not to do. It is the freedom to refrain, withdraw and abstain which makes a totalitarian regime impossible. Eric Hoffer

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    ERIC ARTHUR BLAIR a.k.a. GEORGE ORWELL
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    George Orwell wrote his prophetic masterpiece 1984 barely three years after Europe was liberated from the oppressive grip of Nazi socialism. Victory notwithstanding, Orwell remained preoccupied with the ease and speed with which a nation's freedom could be lost. Freedom's strength was also liberty's fragility — a free people could choose to relinquish freedom. This poignant lesson was Orwell's wake-up call that the great draconian nightmare hadn't ended — it was merely postponed.

    This existential threat must have terrified Orwell so deeply that he envisioned the resurgence of a tyrannical society a mere 36 years after the blitzkrieg of World War II. Even with today's 2020 hindsight, one wonders how he could have so accurately predicted the impending demise of civilization. His only miscalculation was the appointed year. Nineteen eighty-four came and went without fanfare despite the chilling effects of a "cold war," a term Orwell coined to describe his "peace that is no peace." His timing may well have proven accurate were it not for one unknown unknown in Orwell's visionary acumen: Ronald Reagan.

    Now, 36 years after 1984's forecast, 2020 offers itself as an eerie time portal — a way back to the future of Orwell's prophetic world of freedom lost.

    Much like today, Orwell's world of 1984 was divided into three warring superstates: Oceania, which included Great Britain and the Americas; Eurasia, controlled by Russia; and Eastasia, dominated by China. Oceania, a totalitarian regime founded from an anti-capitalist revolution, was ruled by the Party under Big Brother's leadership and enforced by the Thought Police (Thinkpol), which served as judge and jury for offenses against Party doctrine. Nonconformists were broken until they finally surrendered under their own free will. As Orwell wrote: "We do not destroy the heretic ... we capture his inner mind, we reshape him." Today, this psychological oppression and censorship is carried out by "cancel culture" agitators and platforms like Google, Facebook, and Twitter, which suppress all opposing viewpoints — mostly recently a New York Post story on the Bidens.

    A first step in the loss of freedom is the voluntary loss of privacy. In 1984, the populace of Oceania is constantly monitored by the Party via omnipresent telescreens. Today's smartphones are the counterparts of these invasive telescreens, tracking every user's location, consumer preferences, and personal habits.

    Orwell's protagonist, Winston Smith, represents humanity's last hope of regaining this lost freedom. Smith works as a clerk in the Ministry of Truth, where he forges historical documents to reconcile the Party's ever changing platform — obliterating all contradictory government policies and blundered predictions in a contraption called a memory hole. Today, technology allows mainstream media to seamlessly rewrite stories or instantaneously alter TV chyrons, creating an endless stream of fake news.

    Winston, who secretly loathes the Party, develops a politically forbidden relationship with his colleague Julia, a free-spirited rebel. Winston's intimate encounter with Julia not only reawakens his sense of humanity, but dispels his long held distain for the proles (proletariats), the non-Party residents of Oceania whose counterparts are today's "deplorables." In his rebellious act, Winston realizes that, unlike Party members, the proles remain loyal to each other. They hadn't hardened on the inside and, as such, had retained their humanity. What Winston now fears most was not the grueling confession the Party will surely extract from them; it is the prospect of betraying each other. As long as the Party cannot get inside his head, Winston believes he can stay human.

    The Orwellian world of 1984 differs significantly from the dystopian Brave New World of Aldous Huxley. Orwell predicted that government tyranny would be achieved by inflicting pain and psychological trauma. Huxley believed that this control would depend upon sanctioned narcissistic pleasures, such as the orgy porgy of drugs and group sex.

    Today's political climate more closely supports Orwell's prognosis. Fear and pain overpower hedonistic pleasures. When Winston and Julia are finally entrapped by the Thinkpol, Winston initially remains unbroken under his physical torture. But his greatest psychological fears await in the infamous Room 101. When the torment is too much to bear, Winston commits the unforgivable sin of betraying Julia, pleading that she take his place. His humanity, only recently regained, is lost forever.

    Today, governments often rely on fear to control the population. In his techno-thriller State of Fear, Michael Crichton elaborates on the overwhelming role fear can play in government control. "Never let a crisis go to waste" is a common paraphrase of Saul Alinsky's Rules for Radicals. Most crises are difficult to elevate to doomsday pitch. Global warming, for instance, lacks the immediacy and personal impact to promote widespread fear-mongering. Yet, on occasion, a crisis may arise that strikes fear even in the fearless. COVID-19 is a case in point. Government lockdowns that would normally be impossible are now mostly accepted.

    Another powerful tool for achieving group control is hatred. Like fear, hatred's consuming obsession can overwhelm large groups of people into addictive frenzy. In 1984, the citizens of Oceania are subjected to daily "Two Minute Hate" sessions and a weeklong Hate Holiday. This practice has been carried to extremes in recent years with the nearly 24-7 "Trump" hate forums that are broadcast by even once respected news outlets.

    Newspeak is Oceania's official language, a linguistic tool that fosters the Party's ideologies of English Socialism. Its aim is to limit thought. "Orthodoxy," Orwell wrote, "means not thinking — not needing to think." Today we call this groupthink, something that ironically abounds on college campuses. Individualism in Oceania is equated with eccentricity and given the derogatory Newspeak term ownlife.

    Concepts like objectivity and rationalism are contained in the single Newspeak word oldthink. Orwell lamented that in 1984, "[t]he heresy of heresies was common sense." This is not surprising, since common sense implies a universal basis upon which decisions are justified. For a society espousing moral relativism, there is no absolute truth or moral judgment — no standard for common sense.

    Orwell forewarned that once Newspeak fully superseded Oldspeak, the last link with the past would be severed. The Declaration of Independence could then be translated only into the single Newspeak word crimethink.

    The family unit is intentionally disrupted in the world of 1984. The Party prevents men and women from forming loyalties. All this is based on the Party's fear that a stable family structure cannot be controlled. Today, organizations like Black Lives Matter openly renounce the nuclear family on their own websites, effectively leaving many of today's single mothers married to the same husband: Uncle Sam. Many on the left, like Hillary Clinton, believe that government is the breadwinner of today's family — professing that "it takes a village" to raise a family. The irony is that a village is the human community least dependent upon government intervention.

    Organizations like BLM, Planned Parenthood, and Antifa rely on doublethink, a Newspeak term describing the ability to simultaneously hold two opposing opinions. Planned Parenthood is hardly about parenting, despite its child-centered name. Groups like Antifa adopt names evoking noble-sounding causes to shield their radical activities from criticism — a tactic used by terrorist organizations like al-Qaeda, who hunker down in schools and hospitals to avoid being attacked.

    The Ministry of Peace oversees Oceania's war effort in the continuous struggle that exists among the three superstates. In Orwell's world of 1984, "the consciousness of being at war, and therefore in danger, makes handing-over of all power to a small caste seem the natural, unavoidable condition of survival." Today, this concept of perpetual warfare has given rise to a politically formidable and profitable military-industrial complex.

    American history now teeters alongside a bottomless memory hole of toppling statues and once inalienable rights. If we fail to heed this Orwellian future and neglect to dot our is and cross our ts, the United States may well become the Untied States of America.

    It's been said that the best way to predict the future is to choose it. The plight of today's politically polarized society is epitomized in the pivotal dilemma of the Matrix. The time has come to choose the red or blue pill — accept the unpleasant truth or remain in blissful ignorance.


    October 23, 2020
    Are We Approaching the Real-Life World of Orwell's 1984?
    By Joseph E. Ciotti

    https://www.americanthinker.com/arti..._em1984em.html

    Free Americans were approaching the prophesies in the novel 1984 in 1903 —— the year Blair was born. Blair’s only failing was not tying his insight to parasites.


    Parasites will always find a way to get paid for doing nothing more than preaching their moral garbage. That is why parasites brought down every civilization, every empire, every country, every culture that ever was, than did any other factor. This country will be no different so long as income is taxed.

    https://www.justplainpolitics.com/sh...15#post3443715

    NOTE: Had there been no World War One, or World War Two, free people everywhere would still be heading towards 1984 because of the lies parasites have been telling for more than two centuries. I suspect frustrated do-gooders had to be lying in 1794 in order to get the money:


    In 1794, when Congress appropriated $15,000 for relief of French refugees who fled from insurrection in San Domingo to Baltimore and Philadelphia, James Madison stood on the floor of the House to object saying, "I cannot undertake to lay my finger on that article of the Constitution which granted a right to Congress of expending, on objects of benevolence, the money of their constituents." James Madison, 4 Annals of congress 179 (1794)

    Like every organized religion each lie begins as a deliberate lie. Organized religion’s priests never denied their objective; a better life in the hereafter. (What kind of sick minds believe they will get 76 virgins in the next life?)

    Socialists never tell the truth about their objectives. (Socialist priests deliver virgins to perverts in this life —— the younger the better.)

    Every organized religion lie grew in size and scope century after century. The more money parasite priests controlled, the harder it was to destroy the lies.

    Basically, Socialism/Communism spread faster and wider than did every other religion because its priesthood accessed the public purse beginning in 1794. Every other organized religion throughout history had to rely on voluntary contributions. After 1913, every religion’s priesthood got billions of tax dollars right alongside the Democrat Party’s priesthood.

    Here is a sampling of Socialism’s/Communism’s most pervasive lies:

    1. Teachers are so truthful they must be paid tax dollars.

    2. Universal socialized medicine will care for the sick.

    3. The human race is 10 years away from extinction unless global warming is reversed.

    4. Racism is America’s greatest evil.

    5. National borders must be abolished.

    Every lie Democrats tell is repeated every day —— all day —— à la 1984.

    Finally, every Democrat with a public voice is a composite of Joseph Goebbels and the fictional character O’Brien in 1984:


    If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State. Joseph Goebbels

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    You are always free not to vote! Or you can waste your vote on Donald Trump! LOL!

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    Very good post, Flanders.

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