Orwell's Children

by Bruce Walker - November 16th, 2008 - American Thinker

November 18, 1978, three decades ago, 918 people drank Kool-Aid laced with cyanide. Jim Jones, the communist leader of Jonestown, Guyana, had become "Big Brother." Soviet and Communist Chinese propaganda films and condemnations of capitalist and imperialist America blared continually to the subjects of this island of Leftist Hell.

Jonestown ended in mass suicide, but the real horror was that ordinary people, Americans like you and I, had become so decoupled from reality and morality that they could be led to surrender everything, even their lives, intoxicated only with the venom of modern Leftism. These were Orwell's Children.

We are drifting into the sort of horrific future he described.

You will not see this type of article, or the TV equivalent, on CBS, or CNN, or even Fox News.

It can be depressing, but it is also enlightening. This is the reality of today. Jews refuse to believe that the history of his previous statements and allies indicate what Barack Obama is actually planning for Israel, and so they vote for a man who assures them, with his soft baritone voice, they can trust him. Not even a bizarre speech that simultaneously takes the position that Jerusalem will be given to the Jews and the Arabs shakes the mesmerizing effect of his voice.

One fifth of self identified Christian Conservatives voted for Obama, believing that his occasional promises of being a believer were more important than his history of supporting elements of our society dedicated to the destruction of our God.

Orwell's 1984 is probably the most important book ever written, and yet few can intelligently explain its premise and its reality today. Bruce Walker has written a brilliant article that is probably more important than at any time in our history. I just wish a few more conservatives and moderates in our nation had read it before this recent election.