Are Americans becoming Sovietized ?

Published: June 7, 2021, 10:10 pm

Americans becoming Sovietized?

Servicemen of the Russian National Guard (Rosgvardia) gather at the Red Square to prevent a protest rally in Moscow, Russia, Tuesday, Feb. 2, 2021. (AP Photo/Pavel Golovkin)

By Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Content Agency

May 8, 2021 - 9:00 pm

Was it not that Russians finally tired of the Kremlin’s lies and hypocrisies that permeated every facet of their falsified lives?

Here are 10 symptoms of Sovietism. Ask yourself whether we are headed down this same road to perdition.

1. There was no escape from ideological indoctrination — anywhere. A job in the bureaucracy or a military assignment hinged not so much on merit, expertise or past achievement. What mattered was loud enthusiasm for the Soviet system.

Wokeness is becoming our new Soviet-like state religion. Careerists assert that America was always and still is a systemically racist country, without ever producing proof or a sustained argument.

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eddessaknight - Jun 7, 2021, 10:21 pm

"When you see that trading is done not by consent, but by compulsion.

When you see that in order to produce, you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing.

When you see money flowing to those who deal, not in goods, but in favors.

When you see that men get richer by graft and pull, than by work and your laws don't protect you against them, but protect them against you.

When you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming self-sacrifice,

you may know that your society is doomed" -

~AYN RAND

eddessaknight - Jun 8, 2021, 4:38 am

I have sworn upon the altar of God eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man."
This sentence is on the rotunda of the Jefferson memorial,

Are Americans becoming Sovietized ?

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