{"id":1614,"date":"2017-03-09T20:05:17","date_gmt":"2017-03-09T20:05:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=1614"},"modified":"2017-03-09T20:05:17","modified_gmt":"2017-03-09T20:05:17","slug":"russian-and-american-propaganda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=1614","title":{"rendered":"Russian and American ‘propaganda’"},"content":{"rendered":"

With the heightened focus on Russia of late, I picked up an old book in the Bluffton University Library titled:\u00a0 The Soviet Cultural Offensive<\/em>.\u00a0 Author Frederick Barghoorn writes that when your average Russian citizen is asked a political question:\u00a0 “Feigned incomprehension, ingeniously tangential replies, or indignant parroting of the official policy are among the common responses.\u00a0 Some foreigners have reported that Soviet people are equipped with a wealth of slogans, but with a minimum of facts about either domestic or foreign politics.”\u00a0 While written in the mid part of last century, a lot of this still probably holds true — because, for one, the media in Russia is controlled by a somewhat repressive government, still.\u00a0 Okay.\u00a0 But what of Americans today in our extremely polarizing society?\u00a0 They are either fed a steady media diet of liberal ideology, or conservative ideology.\u00a0 Then they often parrot this back in per-established talking points. Less and less of American citizen opinion is a well reasoned amalgam of solid points from both sides, mixed in with just as well reasoned personal opinion.\u00a0 Note: We’d like to think our position papers<\/a> are, indeed, a good amalgam of the best of both (liberal and conservative) trains of thought, mixed in with some refreshingly original thought as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

With the heightened focus on Russia of late, I picked up an old book in the Bluffton University Library titled:\u00a0 The Soviet Cultural Offensive.\u00a0 Author Frederick Barghoorn writes that when your average Russian citizen is asked a political question:\u00a0 “Feigned …<\/span> Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1614","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1614"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1614\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1615,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1614\/revisions\/1615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}