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"Now I will tell you the answer to my question. It is this.
The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake. We are not interested in the good of others; we are interested solely in power, pure power. What pure power means you will understand presently.
We are different from the oligarchies of the past in that we know what we are doing. All the others, even those who resembled ourselves, were cowards and hypocrites.
The German Nazis and the Russian Communists came very close to us in their methods, but they never had the courage to recognize their own motives.
They pretended, perhaps they even believed, that they had seized power unwillingly and for a limited time, and that just around the corner there lay a paradise where human beings would be free and equal.
We are not like that. We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it. Power is not a means; it is an end.
One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship.
The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power. Now you begin to understand me."
George Orwell, 1984
"Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing."
"For, after all, how do we know that two and two make four? Or that the force of gravity works? Or that the past is unchangeable? If both the past and the external world exist only in the mind, and if the mind itself is controllable " what then?"
George Orwell, 1984
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"Trump doubles down on mentally impaired' attack at Harris despite Republican backlash over dark speech': Live
Donald Trump repeated his "mentally impaired" attack on Vice President Kamala Harris at a rally in Pennsylvania on Sunday, even after multiple Republicans rebuked the rhetoric.
The former president told a crowd of supporters, again, that Harris was "born mentally impaired" " the same line Trump used during a "dark" rally speech just one day earlier.
Though the crowd chucked at the ableist rhetoric, others have criticized Trump for invoking the insensitive remark. Former Governor Larry Hogan called it "insulting" and "something we can do without" on Sunday morning.
Senator Lindsey Graham and Representative Tom Emmer both urged the former president to focus on Harris's policies instead.
The Harris campaign taunted Trump for refusing to debate the vice president for a second time by airing an ad in the middle of the Alabama v. Georgia football game which Trump attended.
"If you've got something to say, say it to my face," Harris said in the ad."
www.independent.co.uk
Disability advocacy groups have also come out in opposition to Trump's rhetoric.