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Originally Posted by bblhead672
Today is the 70th anniversary of 1984, published on June 6, 1949. The progressive socialists just can't get over the fact it is fiction not an instruction manual .
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What's really scary is that it was written as a "cautionary tale"; instead progressives seem to have adopted it as a blueprint for their socialist utopia. Amazing how prescient Orwell was with his dystopian vision of a progressive future.
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A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero (42B.C)
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