(C) Daily Kos This story was originally published by Daily Kos and is unaltered. . . . . . . . . . . Today's Orwellian Political Climate [1] ['This Content Is Not Subject To Review Daily Kos Staff Prior To Publication.', 'Backgroundurl Avatar_Large', 'Nickname', 'Joined', 'Created_At', 'Story Count', 'N_Stories', 'Comment Count', 'N_Comments', 'Popular Tags'] Date: 2023-02-19 1984 - George Orwell **WARNING - What you are about to read contains a "liberal" amount of snark** George Orwell would literally be having serial wet dreams these days, finding ample material he could write many books about, so much that his writings today would be worth a complete library of it's own. So, with George Orwell in mind, let us all have an honest talk about the evils of Socialism, and the benefits of Conservatism. What today's Republicans call Socialism is the concept of the government controlling all activity within a nation, while suppressing basic freedoms, suggesting that smaller government is not in the best interest of the people. OK, with that in mind, let's look at how Socialism is being played out in the USA: In Florida, Texas, and other "Red" states, Republicans have ordered books off the shelves, outlawed "drag queen story hours", decided who can lawfully vote, purged voter lists, threatened a privately owned company known as Disney World with sanctions for not abiding with Florida's political wishes, banned COVID mask rules created by communities to prevent the spread of that disease, forbid the teaching of black history in schools, and forced government onto the backs of the people in many other ways. On a National level, the Republicans have removed the right to womens' health care, tailored economic policy to the needs of a certain class of people, mandated who can be considered refugees and who can't, insists that the winner of the 2020 election be replaced by one of their own because "reasons" (Thank you Comrade Stalin), has issued political threats to judges, the FBI, the CIA, and others in government, and also in Congress, and have proposed ending Social Security which people have paid into for decades, thus stealing the peoples' money and distributing it elsewhere. Economically, Republicans over the years have had a history of creating crushing budget deficits. 25% of all debt accrued by the United States happened in just 4 years under Donald Trump, who increased the debt by 8.18 trillion dollars (a 40.43% increase). Under GW Bush, the debt increased 105.08%, under GHW Bush 54.39%, and under Ronald Reagan 186.36%. Any rational person would see this as Socialism run amok. In a famous speech while in office, Ronald Reagan said the following: "Government is not a solution to our problem. Government is the problem.". Unfortunately, Republicans didn't listen, and now evil Socialism is in full control of the Republican Party. In Contrast, let's now take a look at Conservatism, The last balanced budget was done during Democrat Bill Clinton's presidency. Check. Today's Democrats want government off the backs of the people. People should be able to read whatever books they wish, worship or not worship how they wish, love who they wish, and control their reproductive health care along with advice from their health care professionals, without government interference. Check. Joe Biden's administration thus far has increased the national debt by only 8.1%, and a lot of that increased because of the fight against COVID and the aid we have been giving Ukraine. Even then, the percentage of increase in the national debt is way down. Check. And the United States under Joe Biden, as it was under Ronald Reagan, is a check on Russian dreams of expansion. Check. These all look like pretty Conservative platforms to me. 1984 - Eurasia, not Eastasia is our friend. Eastasia is the enemy... 5 years later: Eastasia, not Eurasia, is our friend. Eurasia is the enemy. "From George Orwell" 1984 - We are Conservative. Socialism is the enemy... 39 years later: Pay no attention to what we do. We are still Conservative and hate Socialism. "From the Republican Party" Or could it be that "Socialism" and "Conservatism" were somehow transformed into the bullshit political words we hear today? I truly believe that George Orwell might have thought so. What do you think? [END] --- [1] Url: https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/2/19/2153947/-Today-s-Orwellian-Political-Climate Published and (C) by Daily Kos Content appears here under this condition or license: Site content may be used for any purpose without permission unless otherwise specified. via Magical.Fish Gopher News Feeds: gopher://magical.fish/1/feeds/news/dailykos/