Charles González, a San Antonio native, who together with his father, Henry B. González, represented Texas' 20th congressional district for more than 50 years, said he knew the exact moment he would retire.
The extreme new platform the Texas GOP adopted at its San Antonio convention is about anything but freedom and democracy.Charles González, a San Antonio native, who together with his father, Henry B. González, represented Texas' 20th congressional district for more than 50 years, said he knew the exact moment he would retire. It was when he witnessed the rise of Tea Party Republicans in the wake of the inauguration of Barack Obama.
person. It will not just be the political leaders who are targets. This is right out of Marxist doctrine of controlling thought, behavior and movement in society. That is OrwellIn 1941, pounding his typewriter while German warplanes flew overhead dropping bombs on London, he sketched out the kind of socialism he wanted to see implemented after the war, which included nationalization of land, mines, banks and major industries.
"It is all too obvious that our talk of ‘defending democracy’ is nonsense while it is a mere accident of birth that decides whether a gifted child shall or shall not get the education they deserve," hethat Myers offered in her speech, Orwell wrote a letter to the United Auto Workers in the U.S., clarifying things matter-of-factly:"My book is not intended as an attack on socialism.
These days it's not enough to disagree over policy directions. No, your political opponents are enemies of the state who represent a fifth column intent on eroding from within all that's precious in society. Channeling his best impression of Joe McCarthy, here's how the almost un-stomachable Ted Cruz characterized recent anti-war demonstrations:
“The program of the Two Minutes Hate varied from day to day, but there was none in which Goldstein was not the principal figure. His was a lean Jewish face, with a great fuzzy aureole of white hair and a small goatee beard — a clever face, and yet somehow inherently despicable, with a kind of senile silliness...
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