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George Orwell looking down at us from a puffy observation cloud, must realize now that "1984" hardly touched the surface of what could happen. In the book, there is an obvious form of oppression, and totalitarian government, which allows Winston and others to escape from it.
Nowadays in the US, we have been slowly boiled like the proverbial frog, under the guise of Freedom and Democracy. And it all started with a subversion of language. Calling extremist radicals "conservatives", calling the crime against humanity committed on September 11th 2001 an "act of war", calling anti choice people "pro life" or "anti abortion", calling Social Security and Medicare insurances "entitlements". And now everyone is doing it from Rachel Maddow to Obama.
These twists of language have become accepted and thus, everything we read or hear becomes propaganda, until regular citizens are happy to act against their own self interest, and against the very things they are supposed to be defending, such as Freedom and Democracy.
Can we ever reverse this trend, without going through a major political, economic, and natural cataclysm? Maybe voting for Perry/Bachmann instead of Obama will bring the water to a quick boil, and finally people will wake up...I am kidding, but I do think Obama is a Republican Conservative, and helps with this illusion of change just around the corner which never comes...thus opening the door to a true and accepted plutocracy, something I never thought I'd see in my lifetime!
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