Bleak Outlook. Meh.

As I read 1984, I am reminded that my dad thought this was how things would be if democrats ran things. The use of "comrade" and "socialist" was his reasoning that we'd be vulnerable to fascism through the backdoor of weak leadership. We'd lose everything if we didn't have strong leaders. The ideas in the book have been used to justify being anti-PC. That any censorship of bigoted thoughts would lead to that sort of extreme fascism. And yet, never did any democrat ever come close to this kind of world. But there are people who really think we live in such a world. People think being upset about bigotry and forbidding people calling others "gay" as an insult are seen as being just as bad as the kind of life described in 1984. Yet, here, we've been prosperous, we moved freely, we spoke to each other without fear, and we assembled without fear.

As Trump puts into place a very terrifying regime, with ideas that better match what happens in 1984, I wonder if these kind of people who are like my dad would even be able to see it. After all, 2+2=5 is already the reality they desire to live in.

Can they see the removal of science, banning of funding to science, the political submission of science writing to the dear leader? Can they see the Muslim registry? Can they see the plan to publish lists of names of "aliens" who have committed crimes? Can they see the threat of sending in the military to cities to patrol? Can they see the useless monument of a wall on the southern border? Can they see the forbidding of entry to refugees from a weird selection of countries? Can they see the disappearance of civil rights? Can they see the disappearance of the newly minted LGBT rights? Can they see the lies being thrown about? Can they hear the press secretary? Do they really believe Alex Jones is anything but a charlatan?

I just don't understand how people can hear about these things and still assert this isn't the birth of fascism. I've seen them deny it. I just don't understand how. And I certainly don't know how to make them open their eyes.

And there are still people on the left that want to rub the noses of progressives in the shit and yell that it's their fault.

We're doomed. End.