{"id":42047,"date":"2021-05-07T12:18:20","date_gmt":"2021-05-07T16:18:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=42047"},"modified":"2021-05-07T12:18:20","modified_gmt":"2021-05-07T16:18:20","slug":"where-is-america-headed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=42047","title":{"rendered":"Where Is America Headed?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Davis Hanson posted an article at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailysignal.com\/2021\/05\/06\/are-americans-becoming-sovietized\/?utm_source=TDS_Email\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Daily Signal<\/a> yesterday titled, &#8220;Are Americans Becoming Sovietized?&#8221; In the article, he lists ten traits of the Soviet Union that seem to have found their way into America. Please follow the link above to read the entire article, I am only going to list the ten things. The article contains the details of each.<\/p>\n<p>These are the ten symptoms of Sovietism:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>1. There was no escape from ideological indoctrination\u2014anywhere.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>2. The Soviets fused their press with the government.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>3. The Soviet surveillance state enlisted apparatchiks and lackeys to ferret out ideological dissidents.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>4. The Soviet educational system sought not to enlighten but to indoctrinate young minds in proper government-approved thought.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>5. The Soviet Union was run by a pampered elite, exempt from the ramifications of their own radical ideologies.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>6. The Soviets mastered Trotskyization, or the rewriting and airbrushing away of history to fabricate present reality.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>7. The Soviets created a climate of fear and rewarded stool pigeons for rooting out all potential enemies of the people.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>8. Soviet prosecutors and courts were weaponized according to ideology.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>9. The Soviets doled out prizes on the basis of correct Soviet thought.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>10. The Soviets offered no apologies for extinguishing freedom.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The parallels are frightening.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Davis Hanson posted an article at The Daily Signal yesterday titled, &#8220;Are Americans Becoming Sovietized?&#8221; In the article, he lists ten traits of the Soviet Union that seem to have found their way into America. Please follow the link &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=42047\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[13743,2292,10397,3105],"class_list":["post-42047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-principles-of-sovietism","tag-soviet-union","tag-the-daily-signal","tag-victor-davis-hanson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42047","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42047"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42047\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42048,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42047\/revisions\/42048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}