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“The Twilight Zone” and Romney in 1961

The Perspective Wrote: Nov 20, 2012 5:17 PM

And no doubt in your Orwellian world, the taxpayers must fund all this. Personal responsibility, education and training are not part of the equation. Workers of the world unite, comrade!

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“The Twilight Zone” and Romney in 1961

My wife and I recently started browsing through classic Twilight Zone episodes. Seems like a reasonable thing for religious conservatives to do in the Obama administration’s America. But I wasn’t prepared for just how relevant it would be.

The eeriness started when we turned on the 1961 episode, “The Obsolete Man,” the Saturday after the Nov. 6 election. In it, an all-powerful state has assumed control: people’s lives are monitored, religion is marginalized, and believers are persecuted by the government.

The government’s latest target for systematic destruction, to take place on national television, is played by Burgess Meredith (Rocky's “Mickey” for...