Talking Points ala Animal Farm

After watching a U.S. Congresswoman tick off the talking points regarding the proposed budget, it became obvious that she was positively giddy that she had a) remembered them, and b) wasn't challenged to defend them. I immediately flashed back to Animal Farm in which the sheep dutifully bleated "four legs good, two legs bad." When I first read that book over thirty years ago, I thought "thank God I live in America, where that scenario would never happen." Today I'm having doubts about that.