{"id":63403,"date":"2017-06-08T06:00:13","date_gmt":"2017-06-08T11:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=63403"},"modified":"2017-06-07T08:25:54","modified_gmt":"2017-06-07T13:25:54","slug":"its-the-hypocrisy-stupid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=63403","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s The Hypocrisy, Stupid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Davis Hanson&#8217;s conclusion on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/article\/448320\/hypocrite-democrats-lecture-country-exempt-themselves-resemble-jimmy-swaggart\">the problem our coastal &#8220;elites&#8221; have<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>An elite\u2019s lectures on melting ice caps, transgendered restrooms, or Black Lives Matter are progressive versions of an unapologetic sinner\u2019s singing hymns in church on Sunday; the harangues bring them closer to their social-justice deities and apparently give personal meaning to their otherwise quite non-transcendent lives.<\/p>\n<p>In all their own manifest hypocrisies, Americans take for granted that elites of the Left have become the Jimmy Swaggarts of our age.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>How did he get there?<\/p>\n<p>Read the article!<\/p>\n<p>(And see how it ties into <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=63101\">this<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Davis Hanson&#8217;s conclusion on the problem our coastal &#8220;elites&#8221; have: An elite\u2019s lectures on melting ice caps, transgendered restrooms, or Black Lives Matter are progressive versions of an unapologetic sinner\u2019s singing hymns in church on Sunday; the harangues bring them closer to their social-justice deities and apparently give personal meaning to their otherwise quite [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[349],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-urban-liberal-privilege-liberal-tyranny"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63403","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=63403"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63403\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63404,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63403\/revisions\/63404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}