The first thing I thought when listening to Public Radio’s “Marketplace Morning Report” this morning was WTF? Someone from the Heritage Foundation was saying that what poor people lack isn’t money, it’s lack of opportunity.

And that’s when it hit me. They’re doing it again. They’re “Newspeaking” us.

Boy, these guys are smart. And they think we’re all really really dumb.

They think we’re so dumb that we’ll stop talking about income inequality. About the 1% and the 99%.

They think we’re all so dumb that we won’t remember that these “compassionate” conservatives have consistently taken our opportunities away from us for the past several decades and given them to the very rich – helping them get richer and richer while the rest of us get poorer and poorer.

They think we’re so dumb that we won’t remember that they compassioned us out of our money.

They think we’re so dumb that we won’t remember that they have compassioned us out of our jobs.

They think we’re so dumb that we won’t remember that they are planning to compassion us out of our health care.

They think we’re so dumb that we won’t remember that they compassioned a heck of a lot us right out of our homes.

I hope and pray that we’re not that dumb, that we’re not so dumb that we’ll fall for their Newspeak again. But I’m not sure about this. These guys are very, very good at doing The Orwell.