{"id":54277,"date":"2015-07-21T12:00:55","date_gmt":"2015-07-21T17:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=54277"},"modified":"2015-07-19T12:59:38","modified_gmt":"2015-07-19T17:59:38","slug":"prattfall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=54277","title":{"rendered":"Prattfall"},"content":{"rendered":"

Among Second Amendment circles, it’s been a long-term matter of sport to pick out the various “sportsmens” “groups” that are fronts for the gun-grab movement.\u00a0 Every election cycle, a “group” of “sportsmen” will issue an earnest plea for…gun control.<\/p>\n

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The groups are invariably ringers, of course.\u00a0 And maybe it’s just me – but it seems like we’re seeing fewer of them here in Minnesota; if I’m right, perhaps it’s because the antis realize that northern Minnesota is lost to them, and they’re concentrating their<\/del> Michael Bloomberg’s resources to motivating the ignorant base in the Metro area.<\/p>\n

Still, you see all sorts of these potemkin organizations on the left; “people” and “groups” – almost invariably astroturf “organizations” intended to provide unlikely “bipartisan” PR cover for their extreme allies;\u00a0 groups like “Sportsmen for Gun Safety”, or “Small Businesspeople For A Higher Minimum Wage” or “Babies for Choice”.<\/p>\n

And, if i had to guess, this fellow,Izak Pratt,\u00a0 to whom Brad Carlson introduced us<\/a> on his July 11 broadcast.\u00a0 Mr. Pratt claims to be a gay former Republican.<\/p>\n

But the sniff test just keeps failing (emphasis added by me):<\/p>\n

I voted against my own interests<\/strong> and didn’t think twice about it. I felt it was my duty to uphold what the Bible had taught me. It was my dumy own intereststy to make my parents proud and continue a legacy of “goodness” in an increasingly “immoral” world.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And there’s the first tell; the phrase “…own interests”, which is “progressive” code for “more fiscal and moral entitlements from government”, whether it’s farm bill benefits, an artificially high minimum wage, or government stepping in to tell society what to believe is the first.<\/p>\n

I was vehemently against abortion, stem cell research, gun regulation, immigration reform, welfare programs and gay rights. I was also pro-war, slightly xenophobic with somewhat racist inclinations<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

In my ignorance and backwards ideology<\/strong>, I had twisted parts of the Bible in order to justify my views — all while refusing to study or learn about differing opinions<\/strong>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The reduction of all conservative thought to a series of ofay cliches seemingly cribbed from MSNBC – aka “bigoted chanting points delivered with an air of unearned condescension” –\u00a0 is another big fat reeking tell; Izak Pratt was no more developed as a conservtive than I was as a liberal when I switched to the right.<\/p>\n

Only nobody published my testimony indicting the left, naturally…<\/p>\n

Then, during the summer of 2012, my views radically changed. I experienced an awakening that began when I immersed myself intensely into researching both sides of the political spectrum.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And all that “immersion” led him to switch to – surprise! – the left, as well as…:<\/p>\n

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… [dumping] Fox News and questioned everything I had been told.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I love it when progs throw that out there.\u00a0 I don’t know that I’ve personally ever watched Fox, outside of the occasional waiting room.\u00a0 CNN, either.<\/p>\n

And all of that soul-searching led him to…:<\/p>\n

\u00a0I guess facts such as the low unemployment rates, strong stock markets, high consumer confidence, equal rights<\/strong> and healthcare<\/strong> are all too inconvenient for many to accept. I mean, who has time for those silly facts, right?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yawn.\u00a0 The not-so-silly facts are that\u00a0 unemployment rate is “low” because people are leaving the workforce, the market is high because companies are hoarding cheap unsustainable no-interest cash from the Fed, consumer confidence is about as reliable a measure of the economy as sheep entrails, and the “free” healthcare is going to clean us out.\u00a0 Mazel tov on the “equal rights”.<\/p>\n

The actual fact, Izak Pratt, is that what you call “facts” are actually chanting points.<\/p>\n

And your leaving a GOP and a conservative movement is your loss and our gain; not because you’re gay, but because you’re the kind of gullible, incurious person that the left needs, loves, and fosters.<\/p>\n

Glad we settled that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Among Second Amendment circles, it’s been a long-term matter of sport to pick out the various “sportsmens” “groups” that are fronts for the gun-grab movement.\u00a0 Every election cycle, a “group” of “sportsmen” will issue an earnest plea for…gun control. The groups are invariably ringers, of course.\u00a0 And maybe it’s just me – but it seems […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21243,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54277","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=54277"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54277\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54381,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54277\/revisions\/54381"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/21243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}