{"id":2421,"date":"2021-09-25T05:01:14","date_gmt":"2021-09-25T05:01:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2021\/09\/25\/the-state-under-leftism-totalitarianism-with-bread-and-circuses-2\/"},"modified":"2021-09-25T05:01:14","modified_gmt":"2021-09-25T05:01:14","slug":"the-state-under-leftism-totalitarianism-with-bread-and-circuses-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2021\/09\/25\/the-state-under-leftism-totalitarianism-with-bread-and-circuses-2\/","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 pornography and violence, politically correct propaganda, and such weapons of mass distraction<\/em> 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.<\/span><\/div>\n
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The totalitarianism of bread and circuses is more insidious, and more conducive to social control, than that of gulag and Vernichtungslager<\/em>.<\/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 omni-invasive government by 'woke' global 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":[32,180,165,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-affairs","category-decline-of-the-west","category-political-nihilism","category-social-and-political-philosophy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2421","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=2421"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2421\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}