What George Orwell Said about Donald Trump & His Administration
In a BBC broadcast on 21 May 1941, titled, “Literature and Totalitarianism,” George Orwell said:
The peculiarity of the totalitarian state is that though it it controls thought, it doesn’t fix it. It sets up unquestionable dogmas, and it alters them from day to day. It needs the dogmas, because it needs absolute obedience from its subjects, but it can’t avoid the changes, which are dictated by the needs of power politics. It declares itself infallible, and at the same time it attacks the very concept of objective truth.
This tells us much about what is currently happening in the people’s White House. Thank you, Mr. Orwell.
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