Donald Trump's 1984
I have often
referred to George Orwell’s 1984.
Lately I have seen more and more parallels in today’s governance in the
United States.
Now with the
election of Trump the parallels scream out.
Trump’s pick
for Attorney general is a known racist and a fundamentalist Christian that believes you should
deprogram gays and that Gay marriage should be unlawful. He would readily support a Christian Nation
concept.
Trump’s
selection for the Department of Education has no education background and would
like to see public schools replaced with a voucher system.
Trump’s pick
for Labor Secretary would like to do away with overtime pay and minimum wage
for workers.
Trump’s pick
for the Environmental Protection Agency has been a proponent of doing away with
the EPA
His pick for
Housing and Urban Development is Ben Carson – who sings.
And of
course the moron Rick Perry in charge of our nuclear weapons program – what could
possibly go wrong
In Orwell’s
1984 the government practices Doublethink. Things are exactly opposite of what their
title proposes:
The Ministry
of Peace encourages war.
The Ministry
of Truth spins lies to appear truth.
The Ministry
of Love controls the thought police and torture.
The Ministry
of Plenty restricts food and consumer goods.
Do we see a
parallel here?
I think so.
the Ol’Buzzard
I was just thinking of "1984" recently too and how it meshes so nicely with today's cynical rebranding of odious phenomena like "Alt-right" instead of "White Supremacists" and "Fake News" instead of "Crazy Conspiracy Theories."
ReplyDeleteWhy are stupid Republicans so intent on pushing vouchers?
ReplyDeleteWith school vouchers it's to subsidize those that already send their kids to private schools and bleed the public schools in order to kill the public education system. With the rest it's just to screw the poor!!
DeleteI was thinking the same. The Department of Education is really the Department of Ignorance
ReplyDelete"St. Ronnie" started it, he appointed people to the various agencies that wanted to kill them. It's just that tRump has found even more vicious opponents to head the various agencies!!
ReplyDeletethey're bringing El chapo back to be in charge of DEA
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