Thomas Jefferson once warned, âThe natural progress of things is for liberty to yield, and government to gain ground.â His caution echoes with alarming clarity today, as the Biden administration consolidates federal power to suppress dissent, silence debate, and tighten its grip on institutions meant to serve the people. Jefferson's warning serves not as a relic of the past but as a prescient reminder for a nation now grappling with unprecedented encroachments on freedom. Indeed, when government moves beyond its foundational task of safeguarding life, liberty, and property, it inevitably devolves into a tool of power wielded against its own people. Under the Biden administration, the United States has witnessed the coalescence of federal power, Big Tech oligarchs, and unelected bureaucrats into a singular forceâone aimed not at defending liberty, but at suppressing dissent, silencing free speech, and intimidating political opponents. The result? A regime of censorship and retaliation that echoes the most cautionary passages of Orwellâs 1984. In Orwellâs dystopia, truth is manipulated, speech is policed, and dissent is punishedâa reality we now see emerging as federal agencies pressure private platforms to suppress narratives inconvenient to their agenda. The parallels are chilling: like Orwellâs Ministry of Truth, todayâs government-sanctioned censors disguise control as protection, ensuring only the âcorrectâ information reaches the public.
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