{"id":80966,"date":"2022-02-23T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-02-23T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=80966"},"modified":"2022-11-11T11:18:40","modified_gmt":"2022-11-11T17:18:40","slug":"scratch-a-progressive-find-a-totalitarian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=80966","title":{"rendered":"Scratch A \u201cProgressive\u201d, Find A Totalitarian"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\u201cSo, Mitch \u2013 why do you say that the democratic party in United States is the party of authoritarianism? \u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Because they tell us they are.  <a href=\"https:\/\/thepostmillennial.com\/democrats-overwhelmingly-approve-of-trudeaus-crackdown-on-freedom-protestors-freezing-of-bank-accounts-poll\/\">Strong majority of Democrats approve<\/a> of Justin Trudeaucescu\u2018s treatment of civil disobedience:treatment of civil civil disobedience:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>35 percent overall approved of Trudeau\u2019s crackdown, while 10 percent said they were unaware of what&#8217;s happening to the US&#8217; northern neighbor.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Looking at Democrat likely voters alone, 65 percent said they favored Trudeau\u2019s crackdown on the protestors, and 17 percent said they disapproved.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>I mean, even the rhetoric is becoming too obvious to avoid; Orwell\u2019s villains declared that freedom was slavery; today, democrat thinkers closer and closer to the main stream <a href=\"https:\/\/torontosun.com\/news\/national\/normalizing-emergency-legislation-threatens-democracy-civil-liberties-ccla\">say freedom is \u201cwhite supremacist\u201c<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tomato, tomahto.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cSo, Mitch \u2013 why do you say that the democratic party in United States is the party of authoritarianism? \u201c Because they tell us they are. Strong majority of Democrats approve of Justin Trudeaucescu\u2018s treatment of civil disobedience:treatment of civil civil disobedience: 35 percent overall approved of Trudeau\u2019s crackdown, while 10 percent said they were [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[453,24,20,30,426,286,377,100],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ch-ch-changes-generational-politics","category-culture-war","category-democrats","category-liberty","category-orwell-overestimated-democrats","category-police-powers","category-the-second-civil-war","category-your-papers-please"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80966","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=80966"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80966\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80968,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80966\/revisions\/80968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=80966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=80966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=80966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}