Ben Kerido / The Western Journal
An elderly man with wrinkled skin and white hair hobbled his way to the podium.
He was flanked on both sides by military personnel and protected by bulletproof glass. A blood-red background had been ominously projected onto the walls of the historic building behind him. His weak, cracking voice bellowed in rage from the podium, denouncing what he declared to be the greatest threat to the nation he led: the citizens who didn’t support him.
Is this an excerpt from a history book, maybe a description of Hitler, Stalin or Mao Zedong? Is this a sampling of a dystopian novel like George Orwell’s “Nineteen Eighty-Four?”