{"id":61676,"date":"2017-01-09T11:00:42","date_gmt":"2017-01-09T17:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=61676"},"modified":"2017-01-06T21:14:27","modified_gmt":"2017-01-07T03:14:27","slug":"does-harvard-give-refunds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=61676","title":{"rendered":"Does Harvard Give Refunds?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rachel Maddow – not the most overrated “public intellectual” in the leftymedia, but pretty dang close – threw out some hilarioiusly historicalliy-ignorant red meat<\/del>\u00a0organic gruel<\/a>\u00a0for her audience of ill-informed wannabe intellects.<\/p>\n

Over the past year I’ve been reading a lot about what it was like when Hitler first became chancellor. I am gravitating toward moments in history for subliminal reference in terms of cultures that have unexpectedly veered into dark places, because I think that’s possibly where we are<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Well, there’s a “subliminal reference” there, but not the one Maddow is thinking of.<\/p>\n

Let’s look back on when Hitler became Chancellor.<\/p>\n

It was a decade when political parties kept private armies that roamed the streets beating, stabbing and sometimes shooting their opponents. There were more than a few massacres, of both commies and Nazis. \u00a0 The left has some groups that might, with a little more derangement, become “private armies”, but I’ll be charitable and assume thats not where we’re going, at least on purpose. \u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Germany had\u00a0a parliamentary system that gave a president – superannuated General Von Hindenburg – the power to dissolve the government – something easily used by a crafty plurality to stage what amounted to a bloodless consensual coup. \u00a0 That’d be hard to do, at least legally, within the US’s constitutional system. \u00a0Of course, the left has spent the past eight weeks floating ideas to circumvent or avoid the constitution – but again, let’s just chalk that up to the whining of spoiled, entitled children of all ages.<\/p>\n

It was a place deeply fractured among extremist parties that hated each other and often acted on that hate. OK – the left might be giving us that equivalence.<\/p>\n

Otherwise? Shut up, Rachel, and make me a f****ng sandwich.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Rachel Maddow – not the most overrated “public intellectual” in the leftymedia, but pretty dang close – threw out some hilarioiusly historicalliy-ignorant red meat\u00a0organic gruel\u00a0for her audience of ill-informed wannabe intellects. Over the past year I’ve been reading a lot about what it was like when Hitler first became chancellor. I am gravitating toward moments […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[326,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-big-alt-media","category-history-and-its-making"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61676","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=61676"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61676\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61679,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61676\/revisions\/61679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}