America’s 1984

I was under the impression if you questioned the integrity of election results at least in 2020 you go to prison.

It is clear then that you are getting your information from bad sources. No one was imprisoned for questioning election results. Seeking truth is important in a democracy. And every challenge to the 2020 election results served only to increase the certainty of the results.

Are you allowed to question the results in 2024?

Again, it is clear that seeking truth remains important in a democracy. It appears however that America is losing the value of the importance of truth in favour of “alternative facts” and historical revisionism.

George Orwell wrote in 1984,

“Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.”

The current administration appears intent on using the present to change the past and control the future. Consider the “rehabilitation” of the January 6 rioters to the point of honoring them.

Ashli Babbitt was one of those who attacked the US Capital on January 6, 2021 seeking to block the confirmation of the 2020 presidential election results by Republican Vice-president Mike Pence.

Trump makes video honoring fatally shot Capitol rioter Ashli Babbitt

And now,

These are the funeral honors the Air Force says it will extend to Ashli Babbitt

Back to Orwell’s 1984,

In the end the Party would announce that two and two made five, and you would have to believe it. It was inevitable that they should make that claim sooner or later: the logic of their position demanded it. Not merely the validity of experience, but the very existence of external reality was tacitly denied by their philosophy.

Seems like quite a change in dictatorship.

No, it seems that America is experiencing a change to dictatorship.