@joztamps wrote:
Orwell was a thorough-going man of the left, a socialist who spent his whole life working for political and social progress.
He would be absolutely appalled at the way the right wingers who he loathed co-opt and wilfully misrepresent his views in order to stymie that progress.
One thing I'll say is that with the absolute disgrace that uncouth (some say pig of a man) Trump is, I could imagine if there was a way Orwell could come out of his grave to express disgust he would!
People thought nothing could surpass the arrogance and dishonesty of Clinton and then along came Bush. Well, words can never fully describe the damage he did.. And when there was the big let down with Obama "Yes we can" which translated = "Yes we can say we can and that's all we'll do to improve things". But then along came Trump. and as I have stated before, I never trusted anything about him. How the heck did something as crazy as that happen? Surely it was an insane dream. well, people do wonder.
Ron Paul and Bernie Sanders are two men with at least some decency. There was a major effort to make sure that they never had the chance to be prez.
This guy in office now IMO will be more of the "same old".
