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| Contributor | Guy |
| Last Edited | Guy Feb 02, 2005 08:46pm |
| Category | Commentary |
| News Date | Feb 02, 2005 12:00am |
| Description | From The Advocate, February 1, 2005
Fifty-six years after George Orwell published 1984, his magnificent polemic against totalitarianism, the big lie is king in America. That’s the main lesson of the November election. Count me among those out-of-step blue-staters who find it literally unbelievable that 51% of the American voting public still wanted George Bush to be their president. No other successful American politician has ever written so much of his playbook in “Newspeak,” the language that Orwell invented. In Bushworld bloody mayhem in Iraq equals “freedom,” “Clear Skies” initiatives guarantee more air pollution, and “compassionate conservatism” is just another way of saying that hatred is as American as shiny new SUVs.
When the year 1984 rolled around, free men and women around the world congratulated themselves for having dodged the universal totalitarianism that Orwell had predicted would prevail by then. But now we are closer than ever to making Orwell’s horrific vision come true. |
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