{"id":576,"date":"2017-04-04T10:20:06","date_gmt":"2017-04-04T15:20:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rationalnationusa.com\/blog\/?p=576"},"modified":"2017-04-04T10:20:06","modified_gmt":"2017-04-04T15:20:06","slug":"1984-and-the-rise-of-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rationalnationusa.com\/blog\/archives\/576","title":{"rendered":"“1984” And The Rise Of Trump…"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\u201cIn particular, this undermining of the concept of facts and the demonization of foreign enemies [by the Trump administration] really resonate in \u20181984″<\/em><\/strong><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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\u201cNo one is suggesting that we\u2019re living in Orwell\u2019s world. But the road to that world is people just becoming disengaged and allowing their government to do whatever it wants.”<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

This Tuesday close to 200 movie theatres worldwide will be showing the film adaptation of George Orwell’s dystopian novel “1984”. For those who have read Orwell’s depiction of a society controlled by \u00a0totalitarian single party rule in which government surveillance of its citizens is commonplace (Big Brother is Watching\u00a0You<\/strong><\/em>) and truth is whatever the government wishes it to be can’t help but see parallels with the Trump administration and the conservative movement in America today.<\/p>\n

We applaud the efforts by Dylan Skolnick, and Adam Birnbaum in organizing the event and hope it cast more light on the insidious trend of conservative politics woldwide and the Trump administration in particular.<\/p>\n

Find the complete article from THE HILL<\/strong>\u00a0right here.<\/a><\/p>\n

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\u201cIn particular, this undermining of the concept of facts and the demonization of foreign enemies [by the Trump administration] really resonate in \u20181984″ \u201cNo one is suggesting that we\u2019re living in Orwell\u2019s world. But the road to that world is people just becoming disengaged and allowing their government to do whatever it wants.” This Tuesday … Continue reading “1984” And The Rise Of Trump…<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government","category-politics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8ovtF-9i","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":446,"url":"https:\/\/rationalnationusa.com\/blog\/archives\/446","url_meta":{"origin":576,"position":0},"title":"Trump Says “Very Interesting Items” To Be Revealed On Alleged Surveilance…","author":"Les","date":"March 15, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"Again Trump defends his unsubstantiated claim that President Obama ordered surveillance on his phones.\u00a0 Apparently another Trump alternative fact distraction. 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