{"id":77141,"date":"2021-03-11T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-03-11T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=77141"},"modified":"2021-03-10T07:15:46","modified_gmt":"2021-03-10T13:15:46","slug":"tipping-point-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=77141","title":{"rendered":"Tipping Point"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>As an American, I not only have no innate concept of &#8220;aristocracy&#8221; as a natural part of the social order, but I think it&#8217;s an anachronism at best. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As a conservative, I can see the value to a culture with a history of monarchy keeping some vestigial, ceremonial, constitutionally-innocuous version of a monarchy around.  Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Spain and others use their monarchies sort of like cultural museums, means of transmitting their nations pasts to their presents and futures. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Which is why Big Left has always wanted to tear monarchies down. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Speaking of Big Left&#8217;s attempts to destroy traditions like the monarchy:   <a href=\"https:\/\/pjmedia.com\/culture\/tyler-o-neil\/2021\/03\/08\/megyn-kelly-exposes-the-disingenuousness-of-meghan-markles-bombshell-interview-n1430718\">could someone make these two hamsters go away<\/a>?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As an American, I not only have no innate concept of &#8220;aristocracy&#8221; as a natural part of the social order, but I think it&#8217;s an anachronism at best. As a conservative, I can see the value to a culture with a history of monarchy keeping some vestigial, ceremonial, constitutionally-innocuous version of a monarchy around. Sweden, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conservatism","category-culture-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77141","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=77141"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77141\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77142,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77141\/revisions\/77142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=77141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=77141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=77141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}