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The US is Becoming the USSR
Liberal totalitarianism is turning the United States into something very like its former adversary.
A Personal Story of Then and Now
I am a “Boomer”, born in the 1950’s at the height of the Cold War. I was imbued with the Western narratives that used terms like “the Free World” — of which our President was the leader.
I was told that the Communists, the Soviet Union, represented the “Non-Free World”. They were our mortal enemies, because they stood against everything we stood for.
The Russians, we were told, did not allow free speech. They made everyone toe the Party line. People who opposed the “regime” were persecuted, prosecuted in kangaroo courts, and imprisoned in the most harsh and horrible penal colonies.
The word “Gulag” became common parlance for any horrible place.
America is now the world’s largest penal colony
In 1990, Soviet Russia had 1.06 million people in prison. By contrast, the US has 1.9 million people behind bars.
