This really cracks me up.
The masterminds of political correctness, safe spaces, trigger warnings, and microaggressions. The overseers of made-up pronouns “Xe” “Xir” and “Zey.”
Those who are just discovering 1984 seem naively unaware that Orwell’s fictional spirit-crushing future was a warning against Communism and the unbridled power of an over-reaching government. Trump, for all his myriad faults, seems more concerned with deregulation and taking power away from central government control than building it up.
It was Obama, not Trump, who weaponized the IRS to take down his political opponents and who used the 1917 Espionage Act to prosecute more government whistleblowers than all the previous administrations put together. But none of that unduly bothers today’s new liberal Orwell readers.
Another aspect of 1984 that has seemingly gone unnoticed amongst its sudden glut of contemporary fans is the cult of personality described in the book. Big Brother is everywhere, smiling down from huge billboards and leading his people on the path to salvation.
Strangely, the Big Brother comparison didn’t seem to bother those on the Democrat side back in 2009 when school children were filmed creepily chanting “Mmm, mmm, mmm, Barak Hussein Obama” or when the erstwhile President Obama informed us in 2006 that his selection as the Democrat presidential nominee was “the moment the oceans stopped rising and the world began to heal”.
The idea that Big Brother knows all and knows what’s best for us also didn’t worry progressives when Michelle Obama promised Americans that,“Barack will never allow you to go back to your lives as usual, uninvolved, uninformed.” See, Barack knew best and only he can could have stopped you from being uninvolved and uninformed.
Theaters to play ‘1984’ in global Trump protest
Nearly 200 movie theaters worldwide reportedly plan to screen the film version of “1984” simultaneously Tuesday in protest against President Trump. The demonstration, called “National Screening Day,” primarily involves cinemas in the U.S. but also includes venues in Canada, Croatia, Sweden and the United Kingdom, according to Monday reports.