{"id":1843,"date":"2022-10-04T11:27:16","date_gmt":"2022-10-04T11:27:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2022\/10\/04\/the-state-under-leftism-totalitarianism-with-bread-and-circuses\/"},"modified":"2022-10-04T11:27:16","modified_gmt":"2022-10-04T11:27:16","slug":"the-state-under-leftism-totalitarianism-with-bread-and-circuses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2022\/10\/04\/the-state-under-leftism-totalitarianism-with-bread-and-circuses\/","title":{"rendered":"The State under Leftism: Totalitarianism with Bread and Circuses"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Although the state under contemporary leftism is totalitarian and demands conformity and submission in matters of moment, it tolerates and indeed encourages the cultivation of a politically inconsequential individualism of private self-absorption. A people given bread (food stamps and other forms of infantilizing dependency), circuses (mass sporting events), dope (legalization of marijuana), HollyWeird <\/a>pornography and violence, politically correct propaganda, and such weapons of mass distraction as Twitter and Facebook is kept distracted, enervated, and submissive.<\/span><\/div>\n
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Nowadays it is not religion that is the opiate of the masses, but the dope of Big Government and its leftist enablers and shills in mainstream media, the so-called 'universities,' the churches, the courts, and horribile dictu<\/em>, the military!<\/span><\/div>\n
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The Democrats have long been the party of Big Government; they are now the party of hard-Left Big Government by 'woke' elites. There is nothing democratic about them.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Although the state under contemporary leftism is totalitarian and demands conformity and submission in matters of moment, it tolerates and indeed encourages the cultivation of a politically inconsequential individualism of private self-absorption. A people given bread (food stamps and other forms of infantilizing dependency), circuses (mass sporting events), dope (legalization of marijuana), HollyWeird pornography and … Continue reading “The State under Leftism: Totalitarianism with Bread and Circuses”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[319,163,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fascism","category-leftism-and-political-correctness","category-social-and-political-philosophy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1843","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1843"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1843\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}