It's fashionable to compare to Donald Trump to Big Brother in Orwell's 1984. And there are some disturbing similarities. President Trump on Friday moved to chisel away at the Obama administration’s legacy on financial regulation, announcing steps to revisit the rules enacted after the 2008 financial crisis and to back away from a measure intended to protect consumers from bad investment advice. For who else but Big Brother would accuse Hillary Clinton of being too close to Wall Street and Goldman Sachs? Only to hand Goldman Sachs the keys to the White House. And give the billionaires on Wall Street everything they ever wanted.
And then it all became clear. It was all about Big Brother.
The past was what he said it was. Stephen Harper loves Canada.
Canada isNOT a Northern European welfare state in the worst sense of the term, and very proud of it.
He wants to save medicare NOT destroy it.
And as this latest ad from the Con Ministry of Propaganda and Disinformation proves.
He does NOT want an election...
And this too is true:
"And if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed-if all records told the same tale-then the lie passed into history and became truth. 'Who controls the past' ran the Party slogan, 'controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.'" - George Orwell, 1984, Book 1, Chapter 3
There will be no loyalty, except loyalty towards the Party. There will be no love, except the love of Big Brother. There will be no laughter, except the laugh of triumph over a defeated enemy...Always, at every moment, there will be the thrill of victory, the sensation of trampling on an enemy who is helpless. If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face—forever."
And for those who wish to avoid that fate, and save the country they love, this is the greatest truth of all:
"Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they they have rebelled they cannot become conscious." - George Orwell, 1984, Book 1, Chapter 7
So when will we become conscious? When will we REBEL?
This country is about to be gutted. Like the census.
"Sanity is not statistical."
- George Orwell, 1984, Book 1, Chapter 9
I think the first time I realized how rabidly ideological Stephen Harper's Cons were, was when one of the first things they did was delete the words "women's equality" from every Status of Women document they could get their grubby hands on. Just like Big Brother's totalitarian tools in Orwell's 1984. Changing everything into Newspeak.
This suits the totalitarian regime of the Party whose aim is to make any alternative thinking impossible by removing any words or possible constructs which describe the ideas of freedom, rebellion and so on. One character says admiringly of the shrinking volume of the new dictionary: "It's a beautiful thing, the destruction of words." To ideologically align thought and action and make all other forms of thought impossible. Well guess what? The Cons are at it again. There's a change in language taking place in documents and correspondence put out by Canada's foreign service. Widely-accepted terms like "child soldiers," "gender equality" and "international humanitarian law" are disappearing. In their place are the phrases "children in armed conflict," "equality of men and women" and "international law." With changes that would make it harder to bring child soldiers like Omar Khadr home, and would water down women's rights It also edits the sentence "Canada urges the government of the DRC to take concerted measures to do whatever is necessary to put an end to impunity for sexual violence" to say instead "concerted measures to prevent sexual violence." Can you believe that? And what does Lawrence "Marooner" Cannon have to say about this? "It's our vocabulary. I've told my people that these are the policies that we carry out," Cannon told the Canadian foreign affairs newsweekly.
"In some circumstances, it's semantics; in other circumstances, we're going to be changing policies so that they reflect what Canada's values are and what Canadians said when they supported us during the last election." It's OUR vocabulary. We're aligning words, ideology, and action. How Big Brotherly. Or in his case what a pathetic little tool of the crazed ideologue Stephen Harper.And his rabid base, that are dragging our country into the gutter, and shaming us in the eyes of the world. Oh boy. The Cons want to take human out of humanitarian. Isn't it about time we rewrote history too? Told Great Big Brother Leader and his crazies to go shove it eh? And took the Con out of Canada...
