A tip of the hat to DU's The Magistrate.

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90. And having 10 screenfuls of it repeated at the start of every thread.

Using Orwell himself to drown out discussion then pontificate about "democracy" is itself Orwellian, esp. from a poster who defended voting for the Iraq War Resolution as a political necessity.

It puts this Magistrate quote in an interesting light:

Orwell dissects quite cogently some long-standing attitudes of the left in the West, attitudes which go a long way towards explaining why left parties remain so impotent in our polity. In a democracy, bearing the 'anti-patriot' label is a heavy disadvantage, and to shoulder it voluntarily, and boast of it shrilly, and rub it in at every opportunity, is simply madness --- if one wants to actually gain mass following for one's social and economic goals....

Remember the media RW refrain about "Blame America First liberals" during the runup to the Iraq War? I do. This is a patently neocon talking point.