George Orwell’s thoughts on the use of the English language in politics can still be applied to today’s world. Today’s leaders think of themselves in a position of power over every citizen that they do not wish to relinquish to anyone that may have differing views from themselves. These politicians try to use a language that utilizes words that have a hidden meaning or meanings that are open can manipulated. The main reason that the citizen cannot fully understand the language used against them is that they have been trained by authority to understand less. Instead, citizens are not able to accurately gauge politicians and base their election choices on overused and meaningless words in the politician’s hollow language.

For this paragraph, I left the first and last sentences the same and only changed the two that are in the middle. The two in the middle contained words that were useless. I removed the useless words and rewrote them to be better understood by the reader.