Animal Farm by George Orwell
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ANIMAL FARM is perhaps the most famous satirical allegory of
totalitarianism. Published in 1945, the book reflects events leading up to
and during the Stalin era before World War II. Orwell, a democratic
socialist was a critic of Joseph Stalin, and was suspicious of Moscow-
directed Stalinism. In recent years, the book has been used to
compare new movements that overthrow heads of a corrupt and
undemocratic government or organisation, only eventually to become
corrupt and oppressive themselves as they succumb to the trappings of
power and begin using violent and dictatorial methods to keep it. Such
analogies have been used for many former African colonies such as
Zimbabwe and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, whose succeeding
African-born rulers were accused of being as corrupt as, or worse than, the
European colonists they replaced. In addition, the political deception and
abuses of power of the Bush Administration fall into this category as well.
Personal Review: Animal Farm by George Orwell

First off, I don't hate Bush either. I believe he's a decent human being who
meant well and believed in the "rightness" of what he was doing.
Unfortunately, that's not enough. It's not enough to be sincere and well-
meaning, what is most important is not only the right intent but also the
right solution--people can agree on what the problem is, but there is
always a right (effective) answer to the problem, and a wrong (ineffective)
answer to the problem--one works and the other doesn't. Fortunately, the
economy is slowly coming around but we continue to have serious
problems with the housing market and high unemployment.
The pig Napoleon reminds me of George Bush before he won his first term
as president, when he had high popularity, espousing a non-interventionist
foreign policy and promising to be for the middle class. Then when Bush
got in power, Cheney's Republican neo-cons hijacked the true
conservative message--they disregarded the middle class and squandered
the surplus on unwise tax cuts for the wealthy, you know, to satisfy special
interest and lobbyists in Washington to whom they were beholden, and
they started the Iraq war under false pretenses--they for me symbolize the
pigs who were with Napoleon, and the humans are the spineless
Democrats who unfortunately gave Bush the green light and went along
not only with the wars but also with the bailout. A pox on both their houses!
We the general public, you and I, are of course the "stupid" horse Boxer,
deceived by Bush's (Napoleon's) deceit and propaganda. The sheep in
Animal Farm of course symbolize the manipulated followers of
Bush/Cheney and the other present-day far-right neo-conservatives like
Palin, like blind sheep uncritically following (and swallowing) their lies, like
in the book. Obama is a lot like the donkey Benjamin in a way, with the
exception that he's actually trying to be active on fixing our problems,
whether it's medical coverage for all, leaving Iraq responsibly, or boosting
the economy. I just wish it could be done with less spending! Of course I
do! Hell, I don't want bigger government either. But these crazy far-right
neo-cons calling Obama a Hitler and so on and so forth are not just being
absurdly foolish, it is vile and potentially very harmful to our country.
The only thing cheaply made or poorly made is that last sorry excuse for a
"review". You have the freedom to choose this edition or not. What,
obviously that last "reviewer" doesn't want others to have this free choice.
And no one is "sneaking" anything--the allusions in this edition to Bush and
other totalitarianism is blatantly obvious enough, so its very much in the
open. You have the free choice to agree or disagree with this view, but
don't attack the book and call it propaganda just because it doesn't agree
with your view. I would bet my a** that this last "reviewer" is lying and
never got this edition in the first place since the cover and editorializing are
so obvious, so since he claims to have a problem with it, why did he get it
in the first place??? Clearly, he never got it. He's dishonest. Fact is, he just
wrote that he returned it just because he doesn't want others to get this
book because he's a Bushie or neo-con, otherwise he would be open to a
literary assessment of these allusions to Bush and neo-con tactics. But no,
all such a "review" does is reveal his own dishonesty and political bias.

And that is the only thing such a short-short non-review contributes here,
it's so obvious. So who's the one brainwashing and spreading dishonesty?
Who's the propagandist? Read my comments above for a true, reasonable
and in-depth assessment of the book itself and its parallels with the
previous administration and the current-day Palins of the world. And no I
don't dislike real, sensible conservatives. I'm a moderate Republican! I'm a
Goldwater Republican for godsakes! And I disagree with Obama on a host
of policy issues but he's also right about many things, at least in theory. My
Republican friends have no answer to the dire need for health care reform
in this country, they don't realize that we need to start turning over power
to the Iraq and Afghan forces and gradually get out of there, and that we
need to do something to stimulate the economy, just like Roosevelt did
while President Herbert Hoover just wanted to sit on his hands and do
nothing, believing it would fix itself! Hogwash.
It is not pushing a political agenda, this book is simply pointing out
reasonable political parallels of history repeating itself not only with the
previous US administration but also with many African countries which
were former European colonies.
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