The mirror of dystopian novels

Or...the leftist playbook

It is not uncommon today to hear about how the left, instead of heeding the warnings of a book like 1984, are using it as an instruction manual. Such comparisons of the left to dystopian stories are pervasive, though they tend to be limited to only a couple of books, and usually only one novel is mentioned. It is not fair, however, to limit the comparison to one or two books. The fact is, the left has merged several dystopian novels into an encyclopedic compendium of disastrous politics.

The left is using Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged as the basis for their economic decisions. Taking from productive industries to fund pet projects and crony corporatists is the leftist economic modus operandi. The unfavored are also regulated into oblivion. As in the book, so follows reality in creating misery for the common people, all while claiming that all of their policies seek the “common good.”

As much as people depend on the pharmaceutical industry these days, and as much as physicians and pharmacists seek to play God, Huxley’s Brave New World definitely makes the list. Experiment on humans medically and pharmaceutically. Break up society into “castes.” Drug up the masses and ostracize and exile (or cancel) those who don’t fit the mold. Individualism is to be rejected; only conformance may be accepted.

Of course, 1984 is rightly cited as the foundation for the lefts information control campaigns. Rewrite history, suppress “unofficial” information, get family members to turn on one another, change the language, recruit youth to serve the state’s agenda… There is nothing from this Orwell novel that the left has failed to try to implement. All must be inculcated with the government’s official propaganda, thus, the schools must be taken over to start the indoctrination early.

Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 provides additional guidance on controlling the population. While Marx believed religion was the opiate of the masses, Bradbury saw technology filling this role. As Bradbury wrote of the people being inextricably immersed in technology, the people today have been similarly mesmerized. Hedonism rules the day. Entertainment abounds to draw people in to alternate realities, and information feeds are manipulated to keep people engaged with contrived controversies and inconsequential minutiae in order to cause division or simply distract from what is happening around them. Unapproved information is figuratively burned, much as the books set afire by Guy Montag and the firemen with whom he worked.

The left has worked long and hard, especially in the last two decades, to implement the equalizing values of Vonnegut’s Harrison Bergeron. Anyone who has any advantage, physical, mental, financial, must be brought down to an equal level with everyone else. No one can stand out or be better. To do so would be to have “privilege,” something of which no one is worthy. Therefore, the government must legislate that all people be equal, even if this makes things unequal, as has been seen with “trans-women” - men in drag - competing in women’s sports.

Lastly, politicians live out the pages of Orwell’s Animal Farm, vying to see who can be the biggest pig, while making sure that they continue to let the people know that all animals are created equal, though some are more equal than others, and siccing the dogs on any who stand in their way.

Others could be cited as part of this misery-making manual the left has compiled. In as much as these authors sought to warn what could come through corrupt government, they surely did not realize just how prophetic the left would make their fictional works.