Pres. Bush's America: 1984 or Brave New World?

Critical thought informed by analysis of historical precedent presents the greatest threat to any endeavor aimed at the the enforcement of an authoritarian government. The very fact that so many Americans have warned against the excesses of the Bush administration for so long is proof that a situation analogous to that presented in George Orwell's 1984 need not be considered a natural state of affairs. The fact that America has moved considerably closer to resembling that situation presented in Orwell's novel is a testament to the power of the politics of fear, distraction and confusion that has attained the status of high art as practiced by the Bush administration.