{"id":294066,"date":"2017-02-10T00:05:11","date_gmt":"2017-02-09T23:05:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/its-1984-in-trumplandia\/"},"modified":"2017-02-10T00:05:11","modified_gmt":"2017-02-09T23:05:11","slug":"its-1984-in-trumplandia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/its-1984-in-trumplandia\/","title":{"rendered":"It\u2019s 1984 in Trumplandia"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tromp-tromp-tromp \u2014 troops are marching to battles. Boom-boom-boom \u2014 bombs are blowing up communities. Whoooosh \u2014 poisonous gas is being released.<\/p>\n

Forget Syria, Iraq, and Afghanistan \u2014 this is Trump\u2019s War.<\/p>\n

Our bellicose commander in chief is at war in the homeland, deploying his troops to attack everything from our public schools to the EPA, dropping executive order bombs on Muslim communities and the Mexican border.<\/p>\n

He’s spewing poisonous tweets of bigotry and right-wing bile at the media, scientists, inner cities, “illegal voters,” Meryl Streep, diplomats, Democrats, and people who use real facts.<\/p>\n

Basically, Trump is at war with everyone who doesn’t agree with him \u2014 in short, with the majority of Americans. And you thought Nixon had a long enemies list!<\/p>\n

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(Photo: Alisdare Hickson\/ Flickr)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Yet Trump\u2019s most destructive assault so far hasn’t targeted any one group, but instead an essential and existential concept: truth. Bluntly put, he believes that truth is whatever he says it is, and that he can change it\u00a0tomorrow.<\/p>\n

Years ago, in a futuristic novel, the author wrote about the rise of a tyrannical regime that ruled by indoctrinating the masses to accept the perverse notion of capricious truth. It was George Orwell\u2019s 1984<\/em>, which depicted a dystopia he named Oceania.<\/p>\n

There, the public had been inculcated to believe that reality is not “something objective, external, existing in its own right.” Rather, “whatever the Party holds to be truth is truth.”<\/p>\n

Now, in 2017, we live in Trumplandia \u2014 with a delusional leader of a plutocratic party trying to redefine reality with “alternative facts,” fake news, and a blitzkrieg of Orwellian “Newspeak.”<\/p>\n

But resistance to Trumpism is already surging. Not least, Orwell\u2019s 70-year-old book has become a bestseller again \u2014 thanks to Trump resisters seeking\u2026 you know, the truth.<\/p>\n

The post It’s 1984 in Trumplandia<\/a> appeared first on OtherWords<\/a>.<\/p>\n

This piece was reprinted from Other Words<\/a> by RINF Alternative News<\/a> with permission.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tromp-tromp-tromp \u2014 troops are marching to battles. Boom-boom-boom \u2014 bombs are blowing up communities. Whoooosh \u2014 poisonous gas is being released. Forget Syria, Iraq, and Afghanistan \u2014 this is Trump\u2019s War. Our bellicose commander in chief is at war in the homeland, deploying his troops to attack everything from our public schools to the EPA, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2523,"featured_media":294067,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-294066","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294066","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2523"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=294066"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294066\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/294067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=294066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=294066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=294066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}