"The Party told you to reject the evidence. . . "

 

To say the Republican Revolution is getting out of control would be the understatement of the century.  These folks have blood on their hands and hate in their hearts.

They are committing every lie, every sin, and every illegal maneuver you could imagine. There is no virtue they won't trample and there is no law they will obey.  The one basic right that every America adult has is the right to vote for who they believe should represent them in our government. However, the Republican Party of Trump is in the process of eliminating that right! 

They have begun their march on voter suppression and voter counting. The issues that were once considered "settled law" are now on their agenda and are being attacked with fury. People's rights are now open to interruption by the Party, and deceit and corruption are the passwords of the day. 

In George Orwell's book "1984," he wrote of how the authoritarian rule engulfed every fiber of the people's being and every cell of their minds. It was all accomplished by total ownership of the nation's media and by drilling into the people's mind that what they were used to hearing and reading was totally false. Their answer to the masses was simple: 

"The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command." 

Phrases from "1984" that apply today under the onslaught of the Republican Party of Trump are: 

"Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing."

"It's a beautiful thing, the destruction of words."

"One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship."

"There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad."

And if those quotes do not jar your senses, think about these (my paraphrased words added) from the beginning of Lincoln's Gettysburg Address. . . 

"(Twelve score and six years ago) our fathers brought forth, upon this continent, a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Now we are engaged in a great (tribal division), testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived, and so dedicated, can long endure."

 An Opinion by John Watson

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