When your government changes the official definition of words...

When "your" government routinely changes the meanings of words and phrases, you know you live in a dictatorship, no better than China or a banana republic.  Examples:

   For at least four-thousand years, marriage meant the union between one man and one woman – now the government has re-defined it to include two same-sex people.

   "Vaccine" used to mean something that prevented you from getting a disease.  After it was absolutely proven that people who've taken the jab get covid at the same rate as unjabbed, the government (CDC) has now re-defined "vaccine" is "something that reduces the severity of a disease."  Quite a revision, eh?

    "Patriot" used to mean someone who loved their country.  Now the Democrats who run the government have re-defined such people as "terrorists" and "white supremacists."

George Orwell nailed it: The "Ministry of Truth" had the task of changing all publications so that no record remained that would show any government prediction or claim to be false.