Is "1984" Coming True Right Before Our Eyes?

The liberty principle for this Freedom Friday is that successful people learn from the past rather than repeat mistakes that bring bad results. Democrats have selected Kamala Harris and Tim Walz to be their presidential and vice-presidential candidates. This political duo is being called the “most liberal” ticket in the history of the United States.

The United States has not yet experienced such a radical pair leading Americans. However, George Orwell’s classic novel “1984” warns us about what happens when Big Government or Big Brother uses information control and surveillance to control the population. Victor Joecks, columnist for the Las Vegas Review-Journal, made the following connections between the book “1984” and how America is in danger of becoming a dystopian world like the one in “1984.” 

“Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one’s mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.”

During her career, especially when running for president in 2020, Kamala Harris took some radical positions. She praised efforts to defund the police. She once insinuated U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE, was comparable to the Ku Klux Klan and suggested the agency should be rebuilt “from scratch.”

Harris also wanted to decriminalize border crossings. She cosponsored the Green New Deal. She supported a mandatory gun buyback program, eliminating private insurance, and paying reparations. She was in favor of banning fracking and plastic straws.

Those policies play great in San Francisco, but not in battleground states. Not to worry. Harris has flip-flopped on at least five major policy positions since becoming Democrats’ presumptive nominee.

Instead of exposing this duplicity, the national mainstream media is participating in it….

“If the Party could thrust its hand into the past and say of this or that event, it never happened – that, surely, was more terrifying than mere torture and death.”

The attempted assassination of Donald Trump happened just over three weeks ago. The iconic photo of a bloodied Trump defiantly standing and pumping his fist went viral.

Outside of conservative sites and social media accounts, though, it’s barely been seen since. The national media has largely moved on, eager to fluff up Harris.

Less than two weeks ago, pro-Hamas rioters stormed Washington, D.C., to protest Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech to Congress. They tore down U.S. flags outside Union Station and raised Palestinian flags. They burned American flags, vandalized monuments, and assaulted U.S. Park Police. Charges against some of the few arrested already have been dropped….

“Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten…”

You can see this happening in real time. Last week, I googled “Trump rally.” The top result was “Kamala Harris rally in Atlanta.” The same thing happened to Elon Musk and many others….

“Don’t you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end we shall make thoughtcrime literally impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it.”

Illegal aliens are merely undocumented migrants. Men who claim to be women are women. People voting for Donald Trump are a threat to democracy.

Ramming scissors into the skull of an 8-month-old preborn baby and sucking her brains out is health care. Israel is the oppressor for defending itself against genocidal terrorists. Diversity requires ideological conformity.

The year 2024 looks a lot like “1984,” but you get to help write the ending. Choose wisely.

Wise voters want to see things as they really are, and they do not appreciate being gaslighted as the mainstream media is doing. However, not all voters are wise. Just for fun, I suggest that you read “1984” again to compare it to what is happening in America today.