I finished re-reading George Orwell’s classic, “Animal Farm” last night and hated leaving all those magnificent characters. The book was required reading for me in a high school English class and at that time, we did all the comparisons to Russia, communism and Khrushchev.
Fast forward almost 50 years and it’s deja vu all over again.
Only this time I’m comparing it to the USA, socialism and Obama. Scary, huh?
The pigs and dogs have been replaced by the elephants and donkeys in Washington, DC. Napoleon is in the White House, Squealer is the VP, all the guard dogs are the administration czars and the farm animals/taxpayers are doing all the work and not seeing the rewards.
Anyone else see a connection?
PS – I ranked the book an A+ – anything that timeless deserves extra credit.
Now I want to read it again! I think your next book should be 1984. I’d be interested to see how that one stacks up against current times.