Emmit,
Once again you go about your argument by making assumptions. I know that Orwell was a socialist. As many astute people have pointed out, however, his fictional work demonstrated contradictions and conflicts in his philosophical thought. Huxley's work, as well as his amazing non fiction, does the same thing. Both great men - and they were no doubt very great thinkers, and put me to absolute shame - put their lives into their thought, and came up with bodies of work that are rife with complexity, and contradiction and conflict. As is the case with just about everyone.
Which is why I identify as a centrist. I am committed to the belief that the truth is neither on the left nor the right, but somewhere in the middle.
I will make this concession: I am far more sympathetic to ideas of social democracy than I am to any far right ideas of total social imbalance. Thus, my heart and mind are with you and Roger, and the others, FAR more than they are with people like Trump and Bannon, though it will appear that such is not the case.
I said before that the healthiest thing is a balance of ideas. Since I'm thus far the only person in this thread who isn't admittedly left, I will try and defend the right to the best of my ability, to the degree that voices on that side are reasonable and not overtly offensive.
Edited in:
I used this Orwell quote on Facebook a few days ago. It's taken from his strong critique of Rudyard Kipling:
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"All left-wing parties in the highly industrialized countries are at bottom a sham, because they make it their business to fight against something which they do not really wish to destroy." - George Orwell
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**Edited again: I can't help but note, as you will, that the same thing could be said about anarchists and libertarians.