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Bill Viall's avatar

Another great piece from you Matt. And the problem is, as you well know, today Dr. Seuss gets placed next to Mein Kampf while legitimate critics are silenced, but where does all of this end? I’m sure you recall exactly how odd it was for people like you & me to converse with highly intelligent, very cool Soviet citizens. I was constantly aware that you could cut their self-censorship with a knife, which I found chilling & profoundly sad. I reiterate, Americans have no concept of what an awful place we are stumbling towards.

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randall grass's avatar

your "Sovietization" piece dovetails with the feeling i had when I saw a recent New York Times Special Edition cover of Biden and Harris in a Mt. Rushmore pose with the caption "the history they've made, the future they will inherit." https://www.amazon.com/York-Times-Biden-Kamala-Harris/dp/1547854448 ....my immediate thought was: "propaganda Soviet style"..."the history they've made"? they just got elected! aside from Harris being the first "woman of color to be elected vice-president" they haven't made any history at all yet. "The future they'll inherit"? high-sounding, portentous words that, try as I might, I cannot make any sensible meaning out of. How do you "inherit" the future? This on the heels of Time magazine's similarly monumental "Persons of the Year" cover...with a similar historic "changing America's story" blurb really disheartening that it has come to this (and i voted for Biden/Harris)

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