{"id":79823,"date":"2021-10-25T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-10-25T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=79823"},"modified":"2021-10-25T06:29:29","modified_gmt":"2021-10-25T11:29:29","slug":"79823","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=79823","title":{"rendered":"When He&#8217;s Right&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>In which I find myself nodding <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rebelnews.com\/vladimir_putin_addresses_the_decline_of_western_civilization_in_anti_woke_speech\">as Russian President Vladimir Putin describes the decline of Western Civilization<\/a>, and wondering why America can&#8217;t find leaders who talk like that.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Joe Doakes<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>In Paul Johnson\u2019s classic history of the 20th century, Modern Times, the pivotal chapter, about the moral collapse underway in the 1970s, combined with the peak of communism\u2018s fortunes around the world, was called \u201cthe Suicide of the West\u201c.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The first edition of the book was written just as Reagan had been elected, and after Margaret Thatcher had been on the job for about a year at trying to fix things, so that 80s as we know them today were just the faintest wisp of hope as Johnson wrote the history at the time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And as awful as that era was, things are far worse today. I don\u2019t think the term \u201csuicide of the west\u201c is inappropriate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: In which I find myself nodding as Russian President Vladimir Putin describes the decline of Western Civilization, and wondering why America can&#8217;t find leaders who talk like that. Joe Doakes In Paul Johnson\u2019s classic history of the 20th century, Modern Times, the pivotal chapter, about the moral collapse underway [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-western-civilization"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=79823"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79823\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79825,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79823\/revisions\/79825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=79823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=79823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=79823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}