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Trump’s 1984
Where a lie is told by speaking nothing but the truth.
In a White House press briefing today (see video at 22:30), Karoline Leavitt refused to declare that the US President is acting against judges orders to return Venezuelan immigrants back to the United States after they were deported. She said that the administration is following the law, including judges orders, but also said the Venezuelan immigrants held in El Salvador are not coming back.
Is this kind of double talk something new?
Unfortunately, while not business-as-usual, it is also not uncommon for political leaders (of the United States but also of other nations) to say one thing and do another. When seeking the truth, reporters are told the truth. Yet they receive just that specific truth that the political leaders desire to declare, nothing else.
That is a form of propaganda of course, and the United States is not alien to propaganda. The USA entering World War I has been declared a very successful propaganda effort of swaying a population who did not want to enter that war.
So, we are not a nation in which the truth is always foremost on everyone’s mind. Power is what we read better than the truth.
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In ‘1984’, a novel by George Orwell set in Britain, the main characters are subjected to social…
