Also from Orwell: "In our age there is no such thing as ‘keeping out of politics’. All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasi

Also from Orwell: "In our age there is no such thing as ‘keeping out of politics’. All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred, and schizophrenia. When the general atmosphere is bad, language must suffer. [...] But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought. A bad usage can spread by tradition and imitation even among people who should and do know better."[a] [a] Source: "Politics and the English Language," by George Orwell, 1946: https://archive.org/details/PoliticsAndTheEnglishLanguage https://archive.org/details/PoliticsAndTheEnglishLanguage