Eric Arthur Blair, better known as George Orwell, published his historic treatise 1984 in 1948. The final title of his book was a play on the publication date. The 48 was reversed to 84. That was a cute promotional idea. That gave him plenty of time to fulfill the prophecy of his book. Now let us look ahead to the mid-term election of 2022 and try Orwell’s little trick. 2022 becomes 2022. Whoops, that must mean something in the scheme of things. It means there is no time left for America to avoid the destruction currently being leveled on the middle class by the Biden Administration and the Democratic Party.
The Progressive agenda must be soundly defeated at the ballot box. But it can’t be done with just the Heartland vote. There must be an awakening in the traditional Democrat voting communities and organizations: the urban Black, the southern Black, the U. S. Hispanic, the educated suburban female, private and public sector unions and the other communities taken for granted by the Democratic Party.
George Orwell was a Democratic Socialist. According to Orwell:
“The only thing for which we can combine is the underlying ideal of Socialism; justice and liberty. But it is hardly strong enough to call this ideal underlying. It is almost completely forgotten. It has been buried beneath layer after layer of doctrinaire priggishness, party squabbles and half-backed progressivism until it is like a diamond hidden under a monition of dung. The job of the Socialist is to get it out again. Justice and liberty! Those are the words that have got to ring like a bugle across the world.” --- George Orwell
Justice and Liberty? Justice according to the Pelosi coastal elites and Liberty according to what the State will prescribe.
Democratic Socialism is not social democracy. Democratic Socialists are committed to a systemic transformation of the economy from Capitalism to Socialism. In contrast, social democracy advocates want a gentle reform of Capitalism. But, we already have a social democracy. We have Social Security, Medicare, Affordable Healthcare (questionable), and Welfare programs of all kinds, state and Federal. We even have a State-controlled mainstream and social media of sorts ( They are controlled by one party and some very rich oligarchs). But that’s not enough for Democratic Socialists. They believe that the systemic issues of Capitalism can only be solved by replacing the Capitalist system with a Socialist system—i.e. by replacing private ownership with social ownership of the means of production. That is the goal of the extreme Progressive Left of the Democratic Party. That is AOC’s Green New Deal and Bernie Sanders’ Socialist Manifesto. And that is the BUILD BACK BETTER lie of Joe Biden and his Obama handlers.
In 2022 the voters will decide if they want to live in the AOC and Bernie Sanders’ version of Orwell’s Oceania of 1984 or the Heartland’s American Dream of Freedom, Equality of Opportunity and an unbiased Equality of Justice under the Law. I am hoping all of the latter will prevail. But I am just one vote.