‘Family Ties’ actress Justine Bateman speaks out on Biden years: ‘Man, we just went ‘1984’ on ourselves’

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tweeting that she was “decompressing from walking on eggshells” after an “almost intolerable” and “un-American” four years.Now she tells The Post that her battle cry came at a cost, as she was told by people: “Oh Justine, I didn’t know you were a Nazi.“I did have friends say, ‘I love you, call me anytime, but I have to unfollow you’ or ‘I have to distance myself from you online, publicly,” Bateman added.She said she has been warned that she is aligning herself with “anti-woman, anti-gay, anti, anti, anti, anti.“I have been quoted publicly since 1982.

You want a collection of quotes to try and support your argument that I am any of those things? Go for it, man,” the filmmaker and actress, 58, said. “There’s so much material you can look through.

And you will find nothing.“So the fact that people have to distance themselves from me … Look, I still love them, that’s fine.

But every time they do that, and I’m also talking about strangers now, they absolutely prove my point.”Bateman’s point is that, during the Biden administration and even before, America has been living under a “cloud that has been pressing down on society.” She’s referring to, as she tweeted, the concept of mob rule on social media and how “any questioning, any opinions, any likes or dislikes ” — be it about hot-button topics from Gaza to trans athletes in women’s sports or any form of social justice — “were held up to a very limited list of ‘permitted positions’ in order to assess acceptability.”“Man, we just went ‘1984’ on ourselves,” she told The Post with an exasperated sigh. “Reporting the surveillance, surveilling each other.