COMMENTARY

It's time to re-read George Orwell's epic novel, "1984."

It is eerily close to what the citizens of the United States have experienced over the last four years, and, if we're not careful, will see in the coming years under a party which controls the White House, the House of Representatives and the United States Senate.

Our society, in the name of security from criminals, is pretty much all under a watchful lens. In Orwell's prescient book, the people were always under surveillance. "Big Brother" was watching, and the television was always on, could never be turned off, nor the volume turned all the way down. "Alexa, stop listening!"

In "1984," the totalitarian government had control of everyone's life: their job, their private lives, their emotions, or what could be interpreted as emotions. Food, clothing, travel: all subject to government standards.

If assembled for a groupthink rally, the denizens chant "Hate! Hate! Hate!" Doesn't that sound like the last four years, starting with the day after Election Day, 2016?

From the first hours of Trump's election win in 2016, the liberal narrative heard on the Big Brother networks was "Impeach! Impeach! Impeach!"

Winston Smith's job was to revise history. We've seen that: historical monuments toppled, products such as Uncle Ben's rice and Aunt Jemima's syrup erased, history in school curriculum which bears a postmodern stamp.

The totalitarian regime in "1984" was about total erasure of an individual's freedom of thought. There was not enough to eat; the apartments were always chilly; love between two people was verboten. Big Brother wanted total control to the extent that two plus two equals five...and they didn't want the subject of torture to say it just to end the beatings, they wanted them broken down to believe it.

If caught violating one of Big Brother's rules, you were taken to the "Ministry of Love" to get the hell beaten out of you. Calling something what it isn't is another characteristic of the party in power today. Last summer's riots in Seattle, Portland and elsewhere were "peaceful protests," remember?

There's talk in the wind in Big Brother Biden's U.S. government about a truth commission, or something like that. House of Representatives Democrats are figuratively beating Georgia Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene into submission, stripping her of committee assignments. Marjorie! Two and two equals five!

Big Brother Biden has been happily signing Executive Orders by the dozens in the three weeks since inauguration. Congress? Congress? I don't need no stinking Congress!

Listen up and start seeking other sources of information while our present situation allows it. The "Truth Commission," or whatever they're calling it, is in direct violation of the First Amendment of the Constitution. Every citizen is assured free speech by the Constitution.

The totalitarianists also want to disarm Americans, violating the Second Amendment.

It's also not surprising that troops mobilized to Washington, D.C., ostensibly to keep the peace during the inauguration haven't been sent home. Word from the capitol is that it resembles an occupied city.

While we're talking about Washington, D.C., please note that the Constitution established the District of Columbia and prohibits it from statehood. Of course, that won't stop the party in power from trying.

And how in the world does a freshman congresswoman go from bartender to the floor of the House and immediately garner so much media exposure as Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez?

By comparison, Washington's Fifth District has an eminently more experienced and qualified woman in the House, Cathy McMorris Rodgers. She's been in office for several terms and hasn't received anything like the fawning the media has done over OAC.

Ocasio-Cortez's rise in stature can only happen with the consent of some controlling group, that's how. Heck, let's call them "Big Brother," just for kicks.

It's how "Big Brother" is shoving the Green New Deal down our throats. Life under this One World Order concept would be the antithesis of what free Americans know. They envision everyone in a 1984 existence: living in some drab apartment, only working and riding public transportation. Forget about having a car, making a trip to visit relatives, experiencing the freedom to pursue happiness.

At least in modern times there's escape via binge watching stuff on the internet, alcohol and cannabis. (Remember in the height of the Wuhan Virus shutdown, pot shops were declared "essential.")

On the World Economic Forum website, a piece describes life in a 2030 Utopia. All urban, an apartment, no commerce or shopping, the government supplying and controlling all one's needs. Want waffles for breakfast? Order up a waffle iron, bowl and mixer; it's delivered and Viola!, breakfast. As you leave your Spartan apartment, you'll pass a group coming in to use it as a conference room while you're away.

(Oh, people who envision that are so clueless. First, it won't be that efficient. The tools for waffles won't be delivered on time, if at all. You'll have to take whatever possessions you have with you or else they'll be stolen by whoever occupies your apartment while you're gone.)

Speaking of the World Economic Forum, based in Davos, Switzerland, it's a bunch of billionaires who are using their money and power to advance these concepts of conscription of the common man. They've got an attractive website and, no surprise, Paramount Leader of the Chinese Communist Party, Xi Jinping spoke at their annual meeting recently.

If you're thinking this couldn't happen in the United States, remember that it isn't an overnight change. They put us, the frog, in the saucepan and slowly turn up the heat. By the time we're boiling, it's too late. We never noticed.