{"id":12498,"date":"2020-07-21T10:00:30","date_gmt":"2020-07-21T17:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=12498"},"modified":"2020-07-20T20:28:22","modified_gmt":"2020-07-21T03:28:22","slug":"will-2021-be-1984","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/will-2021-be-1984\/","title":{"rendered":"Will 2021 Be 1984?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ American Greatness<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Cultural revolutions are insidious and not just because they seek to change the way people think, write, speak, and act. They are also dangerous because they are fueled by self-righteous sanctimoniousness, expressed in seemingly innocuous terms such as \u201csocial activism,\u201d \u201cequality,\u201d and \u201cfairness.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The ultimate aim of the Jacobin, Bolshevik, or Maoist is raw power\u2014force of the sort sought by Hugo Chavez or the Castro dynasty to get rich, inflict payback on their perceived enemies, reward friends, and pose as saviors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Cubans and Venezuelans got poor and killed; woke Chavezes and Castros got rich and murderous.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Leftist agendas are harder to thwart than those of right-wing dictators such as Spain\u2019s Francisco Franco because they mask their ruthlessness with talk of sacrifice for the \u201cpoor\u201d and concern about the \u201cweak.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/amgreatness.com\/2020\/07\/19\/will-2021-be-1984\">Read the full article here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ American Greatness Cultural revolutions are insidious and not just because they seek to change the way people think, write, speak, and act. They are also dangerous because they are fueled by self-righteous sanctimoniousness, expressed in seemingly innocuous terms such as \u201csocial activism,\u201d \u201cequality,\u201d and \u201cfairness.\u201d The ultimate aim of the Jacobin, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p466Sb-3fA","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":6292,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/the-death-of-populism\/","url_meta":{"origin":12498,"position":0},"title":"The Death of Populism","author":"victorhanson","date":"August 1, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"Plenty of pleaders for rich and poor, but no politician speaks for the common man. by Victor Davis Hanson \/\/\u00a0National Review Online Occupy Wall Streeters claimed that they were populists. 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