{"id":256,"date":"2012-04-20T07:16:27","date_gmt":"2012-04-20T13:16:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/?p=256"},"modified":"2012-04-20T07:16:27","modified_gmt":"2012-04-20T13:16:27","slug":"principle-or-propaganda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/?p=256","title":{"rendered":"PRINCIPLE &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; OR &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; PROPAGANDA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If your values and policies are based on the bedrock principles that served this country well,\u00a0 you will consistently defend them.\u00a0 If you don&#8217;t believe in America&#8217;s history, you have to use propaganda to get rid of freedom and free enterprise.<\/p>\n<p>The sad fact of history is that repeating lies and empty promises can work.\u00a0 You can agitate people and then manipulate their thinking and then control everything.\u00a0 It worked for Hitler.\u00a0 It worked for the communists.\u00a0 It&#8217;s happening here, now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If your values and policies are based on the bedrock principles that served this country well,\u00a0 you will consistently defend them.\u00a0 If you don&#8217;t believe in America&#8217;s history, you have to use propaganda to get rid of freedom and free enterprise. The sad fact of history is that repeating lies and empty promises can work.\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-political-cultural"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=256"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}