{"id":5008,"date":"2009-07-01T06:43:07","date_gmt":"2009-07-01T11:43:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=5008"},"modified":"2009-07-01T06:43:07","modified_gmt":"2009-07-01T11:43:07","slug":"freedom-is-like-so-complicated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=5008","title":{"rendered":"“Freedom Is, Like, So Complicated!”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Patt Morrison at the LATimes<\/em> talks with Karen Bass<\/a>, Speaker of the California House of Representatives,\u00a0 and a key player in California’s current fiscal meltdown.<\/p>\n

And she does it by beating conservatives with a copy of Saul Alinsky’s Rules For Radicals<\/em>, of which more in a bit:<\/p>\n

How do you think conservative talk radio has affected the Legislature’s work?<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Republicans were essentially threatened and terrorized against voting for revenue. Now [some] are facing recalls. They operate under a terrorist threat: “You vote for revenue and your career is over.” I don’t know why we allow that kind of terrorism to exist. I guess it’s about free speech, but it’s extremely unfair.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So you caught that?\u00a0 Dissent isn’t merely unpatriotic – it’s “terrorist”.<\/p>\n

Which is, naturally, the way lefties are going to play it in the future.\u00a0 It’s straight out of Alinsky: \u00a0 Rule 11<\/strong>: Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, polarize it. Don\u2019t try to attack abstract corporations or bureaucracies. Identify a responsible individual. Ignore attempts to shift or spread the blame.”<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n

“Sticking to ones’ conservative principles and asking your elected legislators to do the same” equals “terrorism”.\u00a0 It’s nonsense, it’s irresponsible – but it does pick, freeze, personalize and polarize.<\/p>\n

I don’t know when Karen Bass had time to read Josef Goebbels, what with flushing California’s future down the toilet, but the jackboots look divine, don’t they?<\/p>\n

This is politics in the age of Obama.<\/p>\n

Thanks, lefties.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Patt Morrison at the LATimes talks with Karen Bass, Speaker of the California House of Representatives,\u00a0 and a key player in California’s current fiscal meltdown. And she does it by beating conservatives with a copy of Saul Alinsky’s Rules For Radicals, of which more in a bit: How do you think conservative talk radio has […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberal-tyranny"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5008","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=5008"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5008\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}