{"id":4615,"date":"2009-04-21T06:46:36","date_gmt":"2009-04-21T11:46:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=4615"},"modified":"2009-04-21T06:46:36","modified_gmt":"2009-04-21T11:46:36","slug":"historically-accurate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=4615","title":{"rendered":"Historically Accurate"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last week, I noted that some scolds on the left were tut-tutting about the “historical accuracy” of calling tax protests “Tea Parties”.<\/p>\n

Being me, the English major, I noted that “language changes”.<\/p>\n

Mark Steyn being Mark Steyn, he noted that they’re wrong; it is perfectly <\/em>historically accurate <\/a>(emphasis added):<\/p>\n

OK, to be less absolutist about it, my interests include finding a road at the end of my drive every morning, and modern equipment for the (volunteer) fire department and a functioning military to deter the many predators out there, and maybe one or two other things. But 95 percent of the rest is not just “special interests” but social engineering \u2013 a $400 tax credit for falling into line with Barack Obama and Susan Roesgen. That’s why these are Tea Parties \u2013 because the heart of the matter is the same question posed two-and-a-third centuries ago: Are Americans subjects or citizens<\/strong>? If the latter, then a benign sovereign should not be determining “your interests” and then announcing that he’s giving you a “tax credit” as your pocket money.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

He who forgets history probably votes Democrat anyway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Last week, I noted that some scolds on the left were tut-tutting about the “historical accuracy” of calling tax protests “Tea Parties”. Being me, the English major, I noted that “language changes”. Mark Steyn being Mark Steyn, he noted that they’re wrong; it is perfectly historically accurate (emphasis added): OK, to be less absolutist about […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history-and-its-making","category-republicans"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4615","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=4615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4615\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}