One of the more depressing things right now is that, in at least a few important ways, it seems like George Orwell's "1984" might have been more optimistic than our own 2019.
Chief among them is the fact that he thought it'd take a totalitarian state to create the kind of propaganda apparatus that would completely try to rewrite the past. We now know that all you need is a shamelessly partisan news organization. What else can we say about the fact that various right-wing talking heads are now saying that former president Barack Obama, who took office in 2009, was to blame for the Great Recession, which began in 2007?