Will 2021 Be 1984?

Interesting piece from Victor Davis Hanson over at American Greatness.

https://amgreatness.com/2020/07/19/will-2021-be-1984/

"Cultural revolutions are insidious and not just because they seek to change the way people think, write, speak, and act. They are also dangerous because they are fueled by self-righteous sanctimoniousness, expressed in seemingly innocuous terms such as “social activism,” “equality,” and “fairness.”

If Joe Biden is elected, the effort to remove him by those now supporting him will begin the day after the election and it will not be as crude as rounding up a Yale psychiatrist to testify to his dementia in Congress or shaming the White House physician to give him the Montreal Cognitive Assessment Test in the manner that the Left went after Donald Trump.

It will be far more insidious and successful: leaked stories to the New York Times and Washington Post from empathetic White House insiders will speak of how “heroically” Biden is fighting his inevitable decline—and how gamely he tries to marshal his progressive forces even as his faculties desert him. We would read about why Biden is a national treasure by sacrificing his health to get elected and then nobly bowing out as he realized the cost of his sacrifice on his person and family."

 

Nah. The communist revolutionaries skipped over a very crucial step in their playbook- disarm the populous. They tried, failed, and seem to have decided to move ahead anyway.

2021 may be more like 1777 or perhaps 1861.

 

Regardless of who wins in November, the left will continue to push their advantage and keep the momentum moving toward collapse.

If Biden wins, I agree that the left will plan on moving him out after about a year, and that will give us our first woman President - probably Kamala Harris.

Kamala Harris is as corrupt as the day is long, and can be counted on to do as she's told in terms of destroying our government and economy.

Once the Constitution is gone, I think you'll see Barack Obama back on the stage.

One thing is for certain, freedom in America is dead.

 

If Trump wins you get an expansion of federal authority, and increase of governance by executive order.
If Biden wins you get an expansion of federal authority, and increase of governance by executive order.

 

Concur with bolded part.

As far as communist revolutionaries, you misspelled minions of the oligarchy.

 

And that's the thread win.

 

I agree, and former useful idiots who finally figure out that they've been played will **** out of luck trying to arm themselves.

 

A distinction without a difference

Perhaps we can agree on 'useful idiots'.

 

Nah. There will always be plenty of firearms to be had in the USA. They may not always be legal... but thats never stopped anyone.

 

Won't be a year. I give him less than 90 days.

 

Don't know about that. There are plenty of folks wit LOTS of guns who maybe would sell for the right price.

 

It will be sensationally quick, with the media running in overdrive to justify it.

 

Question is this, what happens IF Biden wins and he falls apart before he is sworn in?

 

Hillary gets her turn.

 

On another site where I used to be a member someone argued to defund the police. I asked who in that case will keep order and they said defunding means to make police accountable and less prone to arrest minorities and to severely limit police power to make arrests. I then gave them the actual definition: To stop the flow of funds to or to cancel funding for. I was called a dictionary Nazi. My point is that we have already lost the discretion to practice even basic rhetoric and we are headed for a 1984 future complete with Newspeak. Also judging from the fact that we are daily reminded of the urgency of mandatory mask wearing and social distancing and stay at home orders which are said to be essential to saving the population from c-19 but BLM rallies are different, it appears we are also embracing doublethink. Throw in Trump in the Goldstein role if he loses and we’ve cast all our parts in our own sad production of 1984.

 

the Trump presidency was 1984, truth isn't truth, alternative facts, doublespeak.... lol

 

just like if Trump falls apart, the vp takes over, that is why we have vice Presidents

 

Trump says take the guns first, due process second

 

Yes, America has two old farts for president yet the Trump lovers think Trump is viral and thirty-five...

 

Yes he did yet these blind Trumpets would back Trump no matter what he's done..

 

Troubling, yes.

But likely a bait n switch to lure out the banners, considering he hasn't followed through despite ample opportunity.

 

maybe

 

I think we may be headed for a number of one term presidents.

 

You mean America has two old farts for President and Vice President?

 

When did Trump say that?