The whole Western world is at this point, it's so depressing. Even when the left seems to win democratically people like Macron nakedly abuse their authority and choose to caucus with the fascists over the social democrats.

Frankly, George Orwell is part of the problem. Aside from a brief stint during the Spanish Civil War where he supported the CNT-FAI, he spent the overwhelming majority of his life supporting the British Empire and relentlessly hating Communists (and other socialists and members of minority groups) of all stripes, to the point where even the British government told him to chill the fuck out because they were allied with the Soviets. His books aren't immensely popular in extremely right wing countries because they have a left wing critique of government overreach, they're popular because they are anti-government in exactly the same vague and malleable way that all populist right wingers are.

European Union FTW, Germany specifically where the CCC is a massive counter measure to uneducated politics.

Yes. We must know where they live so we can shit on their country to make ourselves feel better.

'Merica!