I was about to give you a lot of claps for citing Orwell, but your notion that democratic socialism rather than capitalism is the Big Lie makes that hard to do. Hmm. I've give you five, because I am grateful.

I like Orwell's take. I think Bernie's platform tells us what Bernie hoped to achieve. He's a pragmatist.

I don't like authoritarianism any more than Orwell did, so I agree that authoritarian radlibs today are as infuriating as McCarthyites.