A Retrograde Action

The Manchurian Candidate is one way to set up a dictatorship, another is for an incoming adminstration to systemically lie and censor information while quietly undoing modernity in America in order to gain power no matter what the cost may be.

It's been fun to point and laugh at the new administration. It's been fun to mock Sean Spicer's obvious discomfort at the podium, and to sit in awe at the obvious infighting within the White House this early in the game. But, while we're doing that, slowly and steadily, an actual government has been forming, and it is the most dangerously retrograde government that our system has produced in at least the past 150 years. It is secretive and it is resistant to any empirical information that it does not want to hear. It is grotesquely anti-science. It seeks to roll back progressive achievements dating back to Teddy Roosevelt and it has the power to do so, even if it is in its own bungling way. And it really hasn't gotten rolling yet.

1984 looms ... if we let it.

"If you want to preserve your power indefinitely, 
you have to get the consent of the ruled" - Aldous Huxley