Daily Rant – June 1, 2009
June 1, 2009
I just re-read Animal Farm by George Orwell. I did read it in school and liked it enough to read it again. But this time through I could not help but notice the similarities to what is going on today with our government.
Just like the animals who rebelled to overthrow the farmer, our liberals could not wait to oust Bush and Cheney and usher in hope and change with their new, young leader! In both cases, all things would be rosy and everything would be sweetness and light from here on out. Unlike the animals who were all equal in the beginning, our elected leaders are anything but like us common folks. They fly around at will, spend our money to maintain their lavish lifestyles, but essentially the parallel to the book is close enough. Politicians have enough of us fooled to make us think they are one of us. However, as the book goes on, the inequality becomes more and more apparent with the ruling class (pigs, aptly enough!) getting more and more special treatment than the common workers.
In Animal Farm, the history of what actually happened is constantly being changed by the animals who can read and write for the ones who can’t. Our history books are busy being re-written by liberals who want to paint our founders as evil rich white guys when actually they gave up their personal fortunes to give everyone in this country a chance to achieve their dreams. But kids who know no better soak it up and regurgitate it back just as the animals bleated “four legs good, two legs bad” until it eventually became “four legs good, two legs better”. And like the dogs that are brought in to protect the “fearless leader”, so does our media constantly destroy those who tell the truth (Joe the Plumber) and protect the ones they favor with lies and distortions of the truth. What else would you call what is happening with the Sonia Sotomayor controversy? Had a white man said that because of his ethnicity it made him superior in decision making than a Latina woman there would have been outrage! Statements are constantly being made to blame the short comings of the current “administration” to the previous leader. In the book’s case it is Snowball. In current events it is Bush. Since the masses are dumbed down, nobody questions the assertions. This is true both in the book and in reality! Finally, the fact that Squealer falsely keeps reporting that things have never been better and there is more food than under the previous owner parallels closely to how the media is now talking about how things are finally getting better! Truth is, the worst is probably yet to come!
In the book the use of the word “comrades” is eerily similar to Obama’s choice of the word “czar” to talk about government people in charge of huge chunks of our economy that used to be privately held. The similarity is scary. Remember when communism and Russia was bad? Not anymore, I guess.
Just as a pig called Squealer secretly paints over the original commandments and adds or subtracts phrases as the need arises in the book Animal Farm, we have courts who legislate from the bench. They constantly rewrite the constitution to suit political correctness while ignoring the original intent of the Constitution, the document they are SUPPOSED to be protecting.
All in all, the book is worth the time to re-read. It is catchy and not too long for those of us who have enough time keeping up on current events.
- FedUpEditor
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