In his novel, titled 1984, George Orwell described a world in which an all-powerful government manipulated reality to deceive the citizenry. For example, when the government cut the chocolate ration from 30 grams to 20 grams, it announced that it was raising it to 20 grams--a bald-faced lie.
When Orwell's novel was released in 1958, it was considered a utopian novel about a world that didn't really exist. Today, we are living in 1984.
President
Joe Biden, our demented Big Brother, recently made this pronouncement about the
American economy. “Today, we saw more progress bringing down inflation while
maintaining one of the strongest job markets in history.” That's just bullshit.
Everyone I
know expresses shock at the price of groceries. I went to the grocery store not
long ago and discovered that the cost of Kraft mayonnaise was almost $10 a jar!
People who are retired and living on fixed incomes find their dollars’ buying power shrinking month
by month. Yet the Biden administration claims that Bidenomics has made us all more prosperous.
The government’s official employment rate is more bullshit. Federal bureaucrats claim unemployment is below 4 percent, but that number hides the fact that millions of people are not working and not even looking for work.
The United States
is beginning to look like Germany in the early 1930s. Like the United States
today, Germany was governed by a man suffering from dementia. Paul Von Hindenburg,
president of Germany from 1925 until he died in 1934, drifted in and out of
senescence.
Like Hindenburg (who appointed an Austrian corporal with a funny mustache as chancellor of Germany), Biden has made some terrible personnel decisions. Who believes Kamala Harris is qualified to be Vice President?
Germany, in
the years leading up to World War II, was wracked by political violence from
the left and the right. America, too, is plagued by a rising tide of political violence.
Then, there was inflation, which wiped out the German middle class and drove the German mark down to a million marks to the U.S. dollar.
Evil days
are ahead of us. The time may come when we will fondly reminisce about the days
when mayonnaise only cost $10 a jar.