Slouching towards Gamorrah

[IainH]

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 Republicans have never pushed hard to solve the issues that Evies care about because they need these issues as reasons for Evies to vote for them.

Yes. In general, the system works for politicians: many solutions to things cause other problems down the road, for other politicians to solve. It keeps the system churning and people paid. In particular with Republicans and conservatives, they really don't do anything useful in stopping progressivism from...progressing. Maybe slowing it down here and there. 

A conservative today is a liberal 10 years ago. We're at war with Eurasia, not Eastasia. Maybe soon we'll be back at it again with Eastasia. 1984 might be one of the most insightful books published in the last 100 years.

  I read Orwell's works in HS beginning with Animal Farm, which is really a dystopian children's story. I read 1984 twice, I was a liberal anti-communist. Many of his predictions have come to pass. The media are the Ministry of Truth imo. One thing he got wrong was the bleakness of the society he predicted. In reality it's not grey, it's colorful with bells, whistles and flashing lights. People indulge in bread and circuses and like it. Whereas in 1984 people were slaves to an all powerful government; in 2019, we are debt slaves believing the next doodad we buy on the never never will bring us happiness. I really need to read it again, it's been 40 years since I started reading Orwell. He and Sven Hassel, you'll have to search him because I don't think he published much in America. Huge among young males in the UK though. They were my favorite authors. SH was the Louis L'amour of WW2 fiction. I owned the largest collection of paperbacks in the holler but, I ran out of space and gave away most to the pharmacy where old people can take them. It's sort of an unofficial library, they can keep them or return them with no fines. It's a good thing because I know several of the "crusties" and there's nothing like an action novel to escape your senior ailments for a while.