{"id":258,"date":"2005-03-21T01:34:33","date_gmt":"2005-03-21T05:34:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/control-h.org\/?p=258"},"modified":"2005-03-21T01:34:33","modified_gmt":"2005-03-21T05:34:33","slug":"workers-paradise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/2005\/03\/21\/workers-paradise\/","title":{"rendered":"Workers\\&#8217; Paradise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On <a href=\"http:\/\/www.orkut.com\">Orkut<\/a> I feel like I&#8217;m really in the minority in the American Politics community (if you don&#8217;t have an Orkut account, and want one, drop me an e-mail).  There are so many confirmed Socialists&#8230;and those who sincerely believe that the United States was worse than the Soviet Union.  I thought those people had really dried up.  Now I&#8217;m being assaulted by quotes from that Khmer Rouge apologist, Noam Chomsky.  It&#8217;s really disheartening to see that people still are busy denying what happened in the Evil Empire.  Even more disturbing is that it&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iht.com\/articles\/2005\/03\/20\/news\/north.html\">still going on today<\/a>.<br \/>\nWhat&#8217;s more disturbing, and perhaps this speaks to blogs, too, is what people use as evidence for their arguments.  I really try to guard against using what I&#8217;d consider to be overly-biased sources, yet, these folks have no qualms about doing it.  I don&#8217;t know if it&#8217;s because they are so blinded by their agendas that any evidence is fine, or if they just haven&#8217;t ever had to write scholarly papers.<br \/>\nAll I can say is it&#8217;s really disappointing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Orkut I feel like I&#8217;m really in the minority in the American Politics community (if you don&#8217;t have an Orkut account, and want one, drop me an e-mail). There are so many confirmed Socialists&#8230;and those who sincerely believe that the United States was worse than the Soviet Union. I thought those people had really [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}