"The labels in use are quite inadequate for actually understanding the issues" Someone needs to pen a 1984 for the present day so we might have a vocabulary to articulate them. Which was essentially what Orwell was writing about, a political culture in which it was almost impossible for anyone to actually have a concrete idea of what anyone actually stood for, since, as Orwell put it, almost all attempts at political labeling were simply crude partisan attempts “to make lies sound truthful.”