{"id":59235,"date":"2016-06-17T11:30:30","date_gmt":"2016-06-17T16:30:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=59235"},"modified":"2016-06-17T08:32:59","modified_gmt":"2016-06-17T13:32:59","slug":"quote-of-the-day-15","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=59235","title":{"rendered":"Quote Of The Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Glenn Reynolds, in a piece about Big Left&#8217;s lies about &#8220;gun culture&#8221;:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Remember, none of this is about saving lives. It\u2019s about the cultural domination of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0399563881\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=0399563881&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=insta0c-20&amp;linkId=358d6cc9882cf2b7f3137ae4688405bc\">people in flyover country,<\/a> by their coastal \u201cbetters\u201d who get a near-erotic thrill out of such domination, and who are reduced to blind rage whenever their efforts at domination fail.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been saying for years &#8211; usually as a jibe at my DFL friends &#8211; that while the Big Left has been jabbering about &#8220;the upcoming class war&#8221; for decades, most lately with its &#8220;Occupy&#8230;&#8221; &#8220;movement&#8221; with its rhetoric of the &#8220;1%&#8221; vs the &#8220;99%&#8221;, most of them don&#8217;t reallize they finally got their class war. \u00a0 It\u00a0<em>is\u00a0<\/em>the gun issue. \u00a0And they&#8217;re the Patricians, the 1%, the lotus-eaters.<\/p>\n<p>And Michael Bloomberg isn&#8217;t ponying up millions for gun control because he&#8217;s concerned about all those poor black and brown people in Chicago and El Paso being murdered.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Glenn Reynolds, in a piece about Big Left&#8217;s lies about &#8220;gun culture&#8221;: Remember, none of this is about saving lives. It\u2019s about the cultural domination of the people in flyover country, by their coastal \u201cbetters\u201d who get a near-erotic thrill out of such domination, and who are reduced to blind rage whenever their efforts at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[325,321,323],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-big-gun-control","category-big-left","category-big-leftymoney"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59235","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=59235"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59235\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59236,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59235\/revisions\/59236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}