When I was young, I remember being taught in school how to protect myself from a nuclear explosion by hiding under my desk.

As the years went by, this fear of annihilation morphed into a cold war between two major powers.  On one side was the United States, with its Bill of Rights and Constitutional government.  On the other was the Soviet Union, and its communist form of governance.

We were told that the communists were godless, and persecuted churches and peoples of faith.  We were told that their elections were shams, and the only people that could be elected were approved by the “party.”  We were told that their history was distorted, and that their news was lies and propaganda.

We were told that their people lived in fear, for if they said or did the wrong thing, they would be sent to a gulag in Siberia.

How could those people not know they were being lied to?

How could they not know they were slaves/prisoners?

Today I understand.

As Judge Napolitano writes about tomorrow, we have become the people of the former Soviet Union.  Welcome to Amerika 2024.

“We know they are lying, they know they are lying, they know we know they are lying, we know they know we know they are lying, but they are still lying.”
– Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn