{"id":5459,"date":"2017-01-25T10:11:43","date_gmt":"2017-01-25T15:11:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=5459"},"modified":"2017-01-25T10:11:43","modified_gmt":"2017-01-25T15:11:43","slug":"1984","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=5459","title":{"rendered":"1984"},"content":{"rendered":"

Well. What do you know? At the top of Amazon’s bestseller list sits … George Orwell’s 1984<\/i><\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Misplaced allusions to 1984 — like Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged<\/i> — are so common that they’re boring when not downright irritating. But: When a top aide to The Orange One speaks of ‘alternative facts,’ and the administration openly attempts to gaslight the American public by lying loudly, we are indeed in Orwell territory.<\/p>\n

So, Goood for us! The loonies enchanted by Trump’s overt malice — I mean, ‘Telling it like it is’ — may not see it, but none of this is within the ambit of healthy governance. I say again: We are not talking about conservatives; we are talking about radical ideologues. Clearly, a decisive and growing number of Americans have sense enough to recognize that, and are thinking through the implications of it and preparing for a fight.<\/p>\n

The American people are sound. It is<\/i> going to be ugly before it’s over, but the good guys are going to prevail.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Well. What do you know? At the top of Amazon’s bestseller list sits … George Orwell’s 1984. Misplaced allusions to 1984 — like Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged — are so common that they’re boring when not downright irritating. But: When … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5459"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5459"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5459\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5462,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5459\/revisions\/5462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}