{"id":37370,"date":"2013-07-19T12:00:05","date_gmt":"2013-07-19T17:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=37370"},"modified":"2020-09-20T21:37:50","modified_gmt":"2020-09-21T02:37:50","slug":"bergs-eighth-law-is-also-iron-clad-and-universal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=37370","title":{"rendered":"Berg’s Eighth Law Is Also Iron-Clad And Universal"},"content":{"rendered":"

The American Left is obliging enough to give me a world of confirmation that Berg’s Seventh Law <\/a>(“When a Liberal issues a group defamation or assault on conservatives\u2019 ethics, character or respect for liberty or the truth, they are at best projecting, and at worst drawing attention away from their own misdeeds”) and its various corollaries are pretty much dead-on reflections of human nature filtered through leftist politics.\u00a0 Berg’s Seventh gets most of the attention.\u00a0<\/p>\n

But Berg’s Eighth Law has had its place in the sun this past few weeks.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The law reads “American liberalism\u2019s reaction to one of \u201ctheir\u201dconstituents \u2013 women, gays or people of color \u2013 running for office or otherwise identifying as a conservative is indistinguishable from a sociopathic disorder”.\u00a0 And the left here in Minnesota’s been flying their evidence like a battle flag this past few weeks.<\/p>\n

From Ryan Winkler’s “Uncle Tom” jape, to the flurries of racist hatred facing every <\/em>ethnic-minority conservative, from Michelle Malkin to, lately, Larry Elder<\/a>\u00a0(and don’t get me started on the political misogyny shown to conservative women), it’s been a banner couple of weeks for lefty bigotry.\u00a0<\/p>\n

I, for one, have a dream; that my children will grow up in a world where they’ll be judged not by the political label that Media Matters and “ThinkProgress” put on them, but on the contents of their hearts…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The American Left is obliging enough to give me a world of confirmation that Berg’s Seventh Law (“When a Liberal issues a group defamation or assault on conservatives\u2019 ethics, character or respect for liberty or the truth, they are at best projecting, and at worst drawing attention away from their own misdeeds”) and its various […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[244,213],"class_list":["post-37370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lefty-alt-media","tag-bergs-8th-law","tag-winkler"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37370","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37370"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37370\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37372,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37370\/revisions\/37372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}