It was 80 years ago that George Orwell’s book Animal Farm was published. The last words of the book sum up what we now have been experiencing in Amerika:

“The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again, but already it was impossible to say which was which.”

Orwell chose the pig to signify the smartest of animals, those who can learn quickly due to their high intelligence amongst the animal world. His reference to ‘Man’ was that of someone who is oppressive and tyrannical. Allow me to introduce you to Donald The Trump, ruler of Amerika.

So, we have a contradiction to all that us little school kids and civics students were taught. Instead of honoring the ‘ Salt of the Earth’ which Orwell’s pigs represented, Donald The Trump‘s Amerika honors the ‘Man’ from the novel. Herding up the undocumented then shipping them out, nullifying the right to dissent AKA Protest, cutting away a ‘Safety Net’ to help us pigs, cutting medical care AKA Medicaid along with funding for proper government to give tax breaks for a fraction of 1 % of Amerikans, all done to create a Big Beautiful Amerika following the guidelines of Project 2025.

The neighbor around our corner was out mowing her tiny lawn. She is a 50 something medical office worker who hollered this to my wife: ” No one is going to lose their medical coverage, except those damn illegals. That is where the fraud is bankrupting us!” By her anger one could see her in 1930s Germany waving her finger at those ‘Damn Jews’, wishing them all away. In Donald The Trump‘s Amerika there has to be scapegoats to ease the pain of the corporate noose around her neck. When she or her family member needs an emergency operation and or a nursing home bed, who will be there to pay the $ hundreds of thousands? When her son’s young daughter needs food sustenance and there is no SNAP money to keep her nourished after he is out of work and his unemployment is terminated…

Who else becomes the ‘Man’ in a new Amerika? Could it be the absentee landlord who keeps raising the already too high rent? Or the cable TV provider that gets away with higher charges? Perhaps the private medical insurance company that pushes everyone into Medicare Advantage so as to NOT have to cover them properly. Maybe it’s the politicians who have the BEST health coverage our tax dollars pay for, and turn a blind eye (for decades) to us pigs in need.

What the MAGA phenomena should teach us is what Orwell meant by the end of his novel.

June 30 2025