{"id":87700,"date":"2024-06-11T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-06-11T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=87700"},"modified":"2024-06-10T09:11:05","modified_gmt":"2024-06-10T14:11:05","slug":"words-to-live-by-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=87700","title":{"rendered":"Words To Live By"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This needs to be said. <\/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\">Reagan often said, \u201cThe nine most terrifying words in the English language are: I\u2019m from the government and I\u2019m here to help.\u201d Today, Reagan\u2019s line cannot compare with the new chilling pledge that \u201cI\u2019m a Democrat and I am here to save democracy.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/CHNvBtR9vK\">https:\/\/t.co\/CHNvBtR9vK<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Jonathan Turley (@JonathanTurley) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JonathanTurley\/status\/1799470229434900551?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 8, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Dennis Prager says &#8220;everything the left touches, it destroys&#8221;.  The language is one of those things, and the left&#8217;s been actively working on it for decades.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The left has made so many words meaningless:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>(Toxic) masculinity<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Fascism<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Treason<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Racism (and its meaningless analogue, &#8220;anti-racism&#8221;. <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>White Supremacy<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>And, in this campaign, &#8220;Democracy&#8221; &#8211; which has come to mean &#8220;everything the Democrat party wants&#8221;. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This needs to be said. Dennis Prager says &#8220;everything the left touches, it destroys&#8221;. The language is one of those things, and the left&#8217;s been actively working on it for decades. The left has made so many words meaningless: And, in this campaign, &#8220;Democracy&#8221; &#8211; which has come to mean &#8220;everything the Democrat party wants&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[128,20,37,426],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-battle-for-the-language","category-democrats","category-language","category-orwell-overestimated-democrats"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87700","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=87700"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87700\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87705,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87700\/revisions\/87705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=87700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=87700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=87700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}