{"id":4245,"date":"2008-02-12T15:39:00","date_gmt":"2008-02-12T15:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=4245"},"modified":"2017-11-23T12:45:37","modified_gmt":"2017-11-23T18:45:37","slug":"the-united-states-is-just-another-european-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/12\/the-united-states-is-just-another-european-country\/","title":{"rendered":"The United States Is Just Another European Country"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.americanthinker.com\/2008\/02\/conservative_grief.html\" target=\"_blank\">The American Thinker<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>What do I accept?  That the U.S. is just another European country now.  We are all welfare states if not outright socialist ones and our political choices are between center-left and left-left.  Time to get used to it.  Moving to France won&#8217;t make much difference, whether you are Alec Baldwin or Chuck Norris.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Sadly, I agree.  Things will probably get worse before they get better.  However, two things might come into play to stem the tide:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>More children to conservative families than non-conservative ones.\n<li>Home schooling and more attention to education by conservative families balances the unchecked education indoctrination in schools and universities.\n<li>Migrations of the population out of the cities and to less populated areas, leading to a decentralization of governments in the best case scenario.<\/ul>\n<p>Because without hope, I got nothing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From The American Thinker: What do I accept? That the U.S. is just another European country now. We are all welfare states if not outright socialist ones and our political choices are between center-left and left-left. Time to get used to it. Moving to France won&#8217;t make much difference, whether you are Alec Baldwin or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4245"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4245\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17668,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4245\/revisions\/17668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}