{"id":85714,"date":"2023-08-15T18:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-08-15T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=85714"},"modified":"2023-08-20T19:49:09","modified_gmt":"2023-08-21T00:49:09","slug":"illiberal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=85714","title":{"rendered":"Illiberal"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The German left is trying to push the German right out of the public square. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Actual classical liberals call it correctly:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">As neoliberal establishments are more and more despised, and thus can no longer control election outcomes, banning popular leaders from running is become an increasingly used tool to &quot;save democracy.&quot; <br><br>We &quot;save democracy&quot; by banning the parties and candidates people like most: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/gUtlMAcDOL\">https:\/\/t.co\/gUtlMAcDOL<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ggreenwald\/status\/1691114171532767232?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 14, 2023<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>By the way &#8211; one of the &#8220;gotchas&#8221; that isn&#8217;t, that the left likes to throw around these days, is &#8220;conservatives can&#8217;t even <em>define<\/em> &#8220;woke&#8221;[1]&#8221;.   <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I like to ask them in response &#8220;define &#8216;far right&#8221;&#8221;. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[1] It&#8217;s nonsense.  &#8220;Woke&#8221; in its white &#8220;progressive&#8221; context is the attempt to impeach society for a set of ills endemic to the human condition, to prescribe political and social &#8220;fixes&#8221; for them, and to persuade, bully or gaslight society into acquiescing. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The German left is trying to push the German right out of the public square. Actual classical liberals call it correctly: By the way &#8211; one of the &#8220;gotchas&#8221; that isn&#8217;t, that the left likes to throw around these days, is &#8220;conservatives can&#8217;t even define &#8220;woke&#8221;[1]&#8221;. I like to ask them in response &#8220;define &#8216;far [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85714","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\/85714","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=85714"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85714\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85744,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85714\/revisions\/85744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=85714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=85714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=85714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}