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The Sovietization of American Life
American Greatness ^ | 5 Jun, 2022 | Victor Davis Hanson

Posted on 06/06/2022 4:51:54 AM PDT by MtnClimber

Edited on 06/06/2022 6:08:00 AM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]

Behind all our disasters there looms an ideology, a creed that ignores cause and effect in the real world—without a shred of concern for the damage done to those outside the nomenklatura.

One day historians will look back at the period beginning with the COVID lockdowns of spring 2020 through the midterm elections of 2022 to understand how America for over two years lost its collective mind and turned into something unrecognizable and antithetical to its founding principles.


(Excerpt) Read more at amgreatness.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Education; Society
KEYWORDS: communism
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1 posted on 06/06/2022 4:51:54 AM PDT by MtnClimber
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To: MtnClimber

What could go wrong with trying this crap yet again?


2 posted on 06/06/2022 4:52:10 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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The parallels between the actions we see with the Biden Admin and the War From Above that the Soviets waged against the Russian And Ukrainian people in the 1920s and 30s are chilling. Looks like Team Biden is using the history of how Communists consolidate power and oppress their people as a how to do book.
3 posted on 06/06/2022 4:58:22 AM PDT by rdcbn1
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To: MtnClimber

NAILED IT!


4 posted on 06/06/2022 4:59:41 AM PDT by GWB00 (Barbara Streisand barely made it out of high school.)
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To: MtnClimber

Quick! Look at what Putin is doing in Ukraine! Make sure you have your mask on!! /s


5 posted on 06/06/2022 5:00:03 AM PDT by Jan_Sobieski (Sanctification)
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To: rdcbn1

The people behind this is the Davos crowd. They have engineered it and are now putting it in place. Sometimes I am not sure VDH and others are aware this is world wide and not just happenstance because we have a really bad incompetent regime in charge of America.

The Davos crowd are communists thru and thru and have more powers than ever to do harm with big tech in their pockets.


6 posted on 06/06/2022 5:04:41 AM PDT by dforest (We have to put a stop to this now.)
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To: MtnClimber

Many people now are not working. Just wait until they tell you that you will do a job they order you to do for them or privileges like eating will disappear.

It is coming.


7 posted on 06/06/2022 5:07:45 AM PDT by dforest (We have to put a stop to this now.)
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To: MtnClimber
Once again, Dr. Hanson is 100% spot on.
I like the new word: Sovietized
I think I will try to remember to use it enough that it becomes part of my vocabulary.
8 posted on 06/06/2022 5:08:52 AM PDT by Tupelo (Don't underestimate The Republican Party's ability to f*ck things up)
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To: MtnClimber

Leftism—a race to the bottom.


9 posted on 06/06/2022 5:11:55 AM PDT by SharpRightTurn (“Giving money & power to government is like giving whiskey & car keys to teenage boys” P.J. O’Rourke)
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I figured at some point this communist takeover would try to happen but I never thought it would be this fast and the capitulation of our so called leaders would be so impotent. I’m still here and willing to rally with LMP.


10 posted on 06/06/2022 5:13:31 AM PDT by HighSierra5 (The only way you know a commie is lying is when they open their pieholes.)
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To: MtnClimber

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11 posted on 06/06/2022 5:16:28 AM PDT by Coffee... Black... No Sugar (“Salute the Marines.” - Joe )
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To: MtnClimber
In before the "...but that wasn't real communism..." claim.
12 posted on 06/06/2022 5:32:41 AM PDT by Noumenon (Black American flag time. KTF)
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My older sister and her husband were young asst proffessors at Berkley in the late ‘80s. I was a freshman at a state univ and would sometimes go up for the weekend. I spent quite a few nights listening to groups of their friends discussing how they were going to pull off a Marxist take over of not only USA, but the West. I just listened....I thought they were just academics who were social misfits and pissed off at how ‘unfair’ things were. I’m still in shock.... They have nearly pulled it off.


13 posted on 06/06/2022 5:35:47 AM PDT by Pigsley (I)
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To: MtnClimber

Even the Marxists here believe in American Exceptionalism. They are certain Marxism has failed everywhere else because it was implemented “incorrectly.” But here in America, they think it will be different. Americans will (somehow) do it right.


14 posted on 06/06/2022 6:20:06 AM PDT by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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To: Noumenon

Mission accomplished! :-D


15 posted on 06/06/2022 6:21:56 AM PDT by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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To: Tupelo

“... I will try to remember to use it enough...”

I’ll start: The sovietized media is an enemy of our freedom and the Constitution.

Lower-case on purpose. I refuse to dignify the media (and other totalitarians) by using upper-case text.


16 posted on 06/06/2022 6:34:18 AM PDT by castlebrew (Gun Control means hitting where you're aiming!))
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To: MtnClimber

Biden rejected commonsense, bipartisan policies that in the past kept inflation low, energy affordable, crime controlled, and the border manageable. Instead, he superimposed leftist dogma on every decision...
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A slight irony is that unlike Obama, I don’t think Biden is a dogmatic leftist. Mostly he’s a narcissistic opportunist, and if shoving leftist BS down the country’s throat is what it takes to show what a total badass he is, then that’s what he’s gonna do. Basically he’s out to out-Obama Obama, with his motivation being ego rather than ideology.


17 posted on 06/06/2022 6:54:42 AM PDT by Yardstick
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Basically he’s out to out-Obama Obama
Agreed. Let the games continue. What’s your favorite slushy flavor?


18 posted on 06/06/2022 7:06:16 AM PDT by griswold3 (When chaos serves the State, the State will encourage chaos.)
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To: MtnClimber

The Soviet Marxists are indeed behind much of the stuff here.

Read, “The Red Thread” (West). Comey. Brennan. Obama. Hillary....all have soviet mentors.


19 posted on 06/06/2022 7:15:18 AM PDT by Basket_of_Deplorables (Putin is behaving rationally.The war is on Biden and Obama. )
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The wealthy should be prohibited from politics.

They aren’t able to represent the People.


20 posted on 06/06/2022 7:16:04 AM PDT by TheDon (Resist the usurpers)
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