I was going to title this “Morning Chuckle”, but then decided that it really isn’t very funny at all. A tad scary, though.

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“The past was alterable. The past never had been altered," George Orwell wrote in 1984. "Oceania was at war with Eastasia. Oceania had always been at war with Eastasia." Except that, you know, up until that moment, Oceania had been allied with Eastasia in a war against Eurasia.

Things change. So does the propaganda — so smoothly that you wonder if Orwell got his ideas for Big Brother from time-traveling modern-day Democrats.

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But Orwell's deeper warning wasn't that the Party could rewrite history at a moment's notice — it was that the people would eagerly go along.

"There was, of course, no admission that any change had taken place. Merely it became known, with extreme suddenness and everywhere at once, that Eastasia and not Eurasia was the enemy... Without words said, a wave of understanding rippled through the crowd. Oceania was at war with Eastasia!"

And always had been.