To the editor:

I find a little strange that dystopian classics such as “1984,” “Brave New World” and others are now popular now that Donald Trump is president given the fact that “1984” was aimed at the political left.

There is the view that we are in a “1984” world with “alternative facts” when the cultural left has been peddling an alternative reality and euphemisms for decades. For example, infanticide is called “choice,” euthanasia is “death with dignity” and “compassionate choices.” A German film in the early 1940s called “I Accuse” in which a doctor injects a poison in his terminally ill wife accuses the law against euthanasia to be unjust. This is the type of dystopian propaganda the left promotes all the time, but, suddenly, now it’s Donald Trump who is the Adolf Hitler because he wants to restrict immigration into the country, as if a country doesn’t have the right to decide who can and cannot live there.

It is, or can be positive, that more and more people are reading “Hillbilly Elegy” but only if it is to educate themselves on how the other half lives. If it is read simply to solidify their prejudices and negative stereotypes about the white working class that has lost ground in the last 30 years then such a reading is of now more use than some white supremacist reading Leon Dash’s Washington Post stories about Rosa Lee Cunningham. In other words, the goal is not to learn but to strengthen a preconceived belief.

I also find it curious that Bainbridge readers are focusing on “revolution” when they are the ones who have benefited most from the social and technological changes that have been going on for the past few decades. They are part of the “creative class” and have been able to ensconce themselves in a “green bubble” (and I don’t mean ecological) while all their “creativity” has negatively effected the very people who voted for Donald Trump.

In other words, it was the Trump voter who wanted a revolution of sorts. Revolutions have nothing to do with democracy, peace, justice and whatever ever fairy tales we want to believe. Revolutions are violent, reactive and always involve innocent people being hurt or killed, be it the French Revolution, the Russian Revolution or the Islamic Revolution in Iran.

I admit that I have a fear of Donald Trump. He’s a Machiavellian charlatan and well on his way to creating a dictatorship, but I can say that I understand why he was elected.

I have become fearful and depressed by the dystopia of alternative reality, social dysfunction and technological destruction that has been going on for decades.

I’ve also grown tired of having to feel like I have to guard my thoughts in our “inclusive” city.

FRANCIS JACOBSON

Bainbridge Island