{"id":3589,"date":"2019-09-23T09:59:06","date_gmt":"2019-09-23T09:59:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2019\/09\/23\/the-state-under-leftism-totalitarianism-cum-panem-et-circenses\/"},"modified":"2019-09-23T09:59:06","modified_gmt":"2019-09-23T09:59:06","slug":"the-state-under-leftism-totalitarianism-cum-panem-et-circenses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2019\/09\/23\/the-state-under-leftism-totalitarianism-cum-panem-et-circenses\/","title":{"rendered":"The State under Leftism: Totalitarianism <i>cum pane et circensibus<\/i>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">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.&#0160; 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 as Twitter and Facebook is kept distracted, enervated, and submissive.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">Nowadays it is not religion that is the opiate of the masses, but the dope of&#0160; Big Government and its leftist enablers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">The Democrats have long been the party of Big Government; they are now the party of <em>hard-Left<\/em> Big Government by &#39;woke&#39; elites. There is nothing democratic about them.&#0160; Damn these Demo Rats!<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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.&#0160; A people given bread (food stamps and other forms of infantilizing dependency), circuses (mass sporting events), dope (legalization of marijuana), HollyWeird pornography and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2019\/09\/23\/the-state-under-leftism-totalitarianism-cum-panem-et-circenses\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The State under Leftism: Totalitarianism <i>cum pane et circensibus<\/i>&#8220;<\/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":[118,163,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-matters","category-leftism-and-political-correctness","category-social-and-political-philosophy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3589","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=3589"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3589\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}