Tuesday, June 21, 2022

Animal Farm, by George Orwell

 I read this one on my own; at 93 pages, a very quick read. 

In looking at Amazon reviews, I found readers who aligned "Democrats" with the autocratic leaders on this farm -- which is both fascinating and unnerving. 

Using DJT as an example, someone who posed with Bibles then gleefully admitted to "grabbing" women's private parts, who worked ardently to discredit mainstream journalists in favor of ones who do his bidding (ie, praise him), and who continues to target entire groups of people based on ethnicity, it is incredible for anyone to not recognize him as Napoleon-the-Pig in Orwell's story. 

Napoleon does as he wishes, lies blatantly, gaslights  his "comrades" endlessly, all for power. 

Power reigns for pigs in this story, as in Russia (upon which Orwell based this story), in North Korea today, and in other places near and far.

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