If you wanted to set up a new political Party to oppose democracy, what would you call it?
Back
in the early 1900s the temperance movement tried setting up a political party,
the Scottish Prohibition Party. They didn’t call it the Alcohol Party, because
alcohol was the very thing they were trying to oppose.
The
Labour Party was called the Labour Party because [back then it at least
professed] it supported workers. They didn’t call themselves the Upper Class
Toffs Party.
The
Conservative and Unionist Party wanted to conserve things, oppose radicalism and
generally support the Union. They didn’t call themselves the Dismantle and
Disintegrate Party.
UKIP,
set up to fight for our Independence, wasn’t called the ‘British Subservience
Party’. No, independence is our middle name! We stand for exactly what it says
on the tin.
Only
in George Orwell’s 1984 would things be named as the exact opposite of what
they’re trying to achieve. Orwell explained it as follows:
“The
Ministry of Peace concerns itself with war, the Ministry of Truth with lies, the
Ministry of Love with torture and the Ministry of Plenty with starvation. These
contradictions are not accidental, nor do they result from ordinary hypocrisy:
they are deliberate exercises in doublethink.”
Powerful
stuff. When Big Brother wanted to pull the wool over people’s eyes he called
things the opposite of what they actually were. It’s the nature of propaganda to
do so.
James
Chapman is setting up a new Party, with the intention of subverting democracy
and overturning Brexit. Remember, Brexit is the epitome of British democracy:
never in the history of this United Kingdom have more people voted for anything
than voted for Brexit.
So,
if you wanted to set up a new political party to oppose democracy, what would
you call it?
Think
for a moment…
The
Democrats!
I
kid you not. He is actually naming his Party after the very thing he’s
campaigning against. Orwell would be spinning in his grave: he intended 1984 as
a warning, not as an instruction manual.
