{"id":44904,"date":"2014-06-16T12:05:13","date_gmt":"2014-06-16T17:05:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=44904"},"modified":"2014-06-16T13:05:46","modified_gmt":"2014-06-16T18:05:46","slug":"hillary-was-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=44904","title":{"rendered":"Hillary! Was Right – Sort Of"},"content":{"rendered":"

In regard to Terry Gross’ interview with Hillary Clinton last week – in which the eternally-overrated Gross spent ten minutes badgering Clinton about the “evolution” in her views on same-sex marriage – I’m of two minds, depending on who you <\/em>are:<\/p>\n

If You’re a Liberal<\/strong>:\u00a0 Gross showed Hillary! up as the hypocrite she is.\u00a0 Clearly Elizabeth Warren is the only person fit to run for President in 2016.\u00a0 To accept any less would be to short-sell this nation.\u00a0<\/p>\n

If You’re a Smart Person<\/strong>:\u00a0\u00a0This piece in The Federalist <\/em>by Mollie Hemingway <\/a>sums up nicely the things – not by any means good things – that Gross’ badgering says about modern “progressivism”.\u00a0<\/p>\n

She badgered Clinton for an answer that Gross was tacitly demanding – self-abnegation over her history on the issue – that Clinton is <\/em>too smart to give.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Gross pretended that all of\u00a0American society outside the NPR-infused ultra-left hadn’t largely changed their minds on the issue in a blazingly short time.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Gross was also engaging in the ritual that is emerging on the left, the Orwellian need for all “progressives” to show that they were exhibiting PC correct-think on every issue from the very beginning.\u00a0<\/p>\n

And worst?\u00a0 Gross is showing how very unskeptical and unenquiring her breed of “journalist” is when revealed dogma is involved.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Now, I know the popular view among our deep thinkers in the media<\/a> is that recognizing [the definition of marriage as being an institution where one or more man and one or more woman raised children has been remarkably consistent across societies, systems, religions and eras througout human history] should probably be a capital offense. But to paraphrase and quote something I wrote in \u201cThe Rise of the Same-Sex Marriage Dissidents,<\/a>\u201d marriage is historically understood as being based on the reality that all humans have complete biological systems in their body save one. That one for which we all have only half is the reproductive system \u2014 the means by which we propagate the species. Humans have all sorts of relationships but marriage was about sexual complementarity for reasons having absolutely nothing to do with bigotry, obviously.<\/p>\n

Now if one wants to change marriage laws to reflect something else, that\u2019s obviously something that one can aim to do. We\u2019ve seen the rapid, frequently unthinking embrace of that change in recent years, described one year ago in the humanist and libertarian magazine Spiked as \u201ca case study in conformism<\/a>\u201d that should terrify \u201canyone who values diversity of thought and tolerance of dissent<\/a>.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Here in Minnesota, the main persuasive approach of the same-sex marriage crowd (“if you don’t support it without stint or question, you’re a bigot”) was the sort of thing that gave Orwell indigestion seventy years ago.\u00a0<\/p>\n

I do urge you to read the whole thing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In regard to Terry Gross’ interview with Hillary Clinton last week – in which the eternally-overrated Gross spent ten minutes badgering Clinton about the “evolution” in her views on same-sex marriage – I’m of two minds, depending on who you are: If You’re a Liberal:\u00a0 Gross showed Hillary! up as the hypocrite she is.\u00a0 Clearly […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44904","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=44904"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44904\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45088,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44904\/revisions\/45088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}