{"id":87721,"date":"2024-06-14T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-06-14T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=87721"},"modified":"2024-06-13T14:46:23","modified_gmt":"2024-06-13T19:46:23","slug":"the-new-political-geography","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=87721","title":{"rendered":"The New Political Geography"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Perhaps you heard – conservatives won big in EU elections last weekend. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

You might have missed it, because the news only referred to “the far right” – as if Francisco Franco were back from the dead. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Indeed, it’s yet another term that today’s left have rendered meaningless:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nhttps:\/\/twitter.com\/TheRabbitHole84\/status\/1800671558027055340\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Let not pretend this is accidental. Big Left has been working for decades to gain control of the language and its perception. The systematic turning of all “right wing’ thought into some neo-fascist aberration shifted into high gear in 2009, when Obama’s Homeland Security czaritsa Janet Napolitano told the nation’s law enforcement<\/a> “don’t mind all those leftist terrorists, watch out for all that right wing terror<\/em> which is going to come out of nowhere someday, pinky swear!”. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Just watch – in a month, NPR and the NYTimes <\/em>will furrow their brows and wonder why society has had a “Big Sort”…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The good news: these sorts of results usually bode well for elections in America, at least for the upcoming cycle. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Perhaps you heard – conservatives won big in EU elections last weekend. You might have missed it, because the news only referred to “the far right” – as if Francisco Franco were back from the dead. Indeed, it’s yet another term that today’s left have rendered meaningless: Let not pretend this is accidental. Big Left […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[321,425,16,63,130,79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-big-left","category-campaign-24","category-conservatism","category-lefty-alt-media","category-tc-media-bias","category-slander-files"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87721","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=87721"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87721\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87739,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87721\/revisions\/87739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=87721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=87721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=87721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}