[The_Rorschach]

"If you have read the amazingly entertaining (yet wholly depressing) novel 1984 by George Orwell, then you know what I am talking about."

Isn't this still required reading in High School? I found it more amusing than anything else, even when I read it initially. People seem to think politicians are either the ultimate agents of unrelenting evil, or bumbling beaurocrats incapable of effecting change.