Reply #11: You're Right

[goodwalt]

Your right. The "Orwellian" aspect of what's going on these days was tangential to the purpose of my post. But damned if it doesn't feel like we are slipping bit by bit from democracy to totalatarianism- only instead of a strong man generalisimo taking charge at the head of an army, we have a figurehead "Big Brother" fronting for our corporate over-lords that is able to maintain power through manipulation/control of a submissive mainstream media, and keeping the populace in fear by maintaining a state of perpetual war. Then there is the clever naming of insidious programs like "Patriot Act"(read Thought Police), "Operation Iraqi Freedom", "Death Tax", "Partial Birth Abortion", and on and on. No, we are not there yet- but the warnings of 1984 have never seemed more applicable than they do right here and right now.