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| Stein: The Orwellian Bullying of Donald Trump |
| 2016-10-05 |
| "This election has taken on a Newspeak, Big Brother, Thought Police quality. It's the same quality that bullies use everywhere. The horrible joke is that it's the Hillary people who are doing it -- but they are the ones who call Trump a bully. Don't get me wrong. In a small, schoolyard way, Trump was a bully in the primaries. But now he's up against the master Sturmabteilung bullies of the left. It's a terrifying proposition: the one party media and anyone who speaks against it is a Thought Criminal ( "Thoughtcrime does not entail death, Winston...Thoughtcrime is death....") and then the one-party state. Pray for a Republican Congress. But in the meantime, the walls have ears." |
| Posted by:Blossom Unains5562 |
| #8 Title had me thinking the article was about Trump bullying folks. Glad Stein isn't blind. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2016-10-05 17:44 |
| #7 Darth - you know the lefties have the same poster with an elephant on it. I'm sure it drives them to hysterics. |
| Posted by: Bobby 2016-10-05 12:46 |
| #6 JohnQC: |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2016-10-05 09:47 |
| #5 For all the bluster from the left about bullying, they don't mind going full-bore with bullying when it suits them. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2016-10-05 09:39 |
| #4 ...well our founders did, that's why they wrote the text of the Constitution they way they did. It just got 'interpreted' out of existence. The fundamental flaw was to have one branch of government immune to accountability and allowed to sit for life. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2016-10-05 09:03 |
| #3 I wonder if the starving writer had any idea how important his prognostication of modern political movements ("thoughtcrime is death") would one day become. Divine inspiration only. He surely could never have imagined an American Obama or a Clinton. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2016-10-05 08:04 |
| #2 At the close of the Spanish Civil War George Orwell resided in Barcelona and cast his anathama on both the Left (the Anarchists and Communists) and Right (the Fascists). Living hand to mouth, I wonder if the starving writer had any idea how important his prognostication of modern political movements ("thoughtcrime is death") would one day become. |
| Posted by: Shick de Medici6262 2016-10-05 07:52 |
| #1 It's Ok. Donald is a big boy, he can take it. More importantly, unlike his predecessors, he can dish it out. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2016-10-05 02:21 |