{"id":89375,"date":"2025-03-11T05:14:00","date_gmt":"2025-03-11T10:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=89375"},"modified":"2025-03-11T06:32:43","modified_gmt":"2025-03-11T11:32:43","slug":"bergs-seventh-law-in-action-always-always-in-action","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=89375","title":{"rendered":"Berg&#8217;s Seventh Law In Action.  Always, Always In Action."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I first codified <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?page_id=70364\">Berg&#8217;s Seventh Law<\/a> &#8211; progressives are always projecting their motives and actions onto conservatives &#8211; nearly twenty years ago.\u00a0 It may be the thing for which I and this blog are best known outside Minnesota.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>And there&#8217;s a reason for that.\u00a0 It&#8217;s universal.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve seen it in different ways in different eras in the evolution of Big Left.\u00a0 But the most grating started sixteen years ago, when the Obama administration could be said to have started on its path of racial division and plate throwing by starting the claim that our society was awaiting a wave of right wing\/&#8221;white supremacist&#8221; terror that &#8220;would dwarf 9\/11&#8221;.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Of course, since then left-wing terror has dominated the coercion landscape by (charitably) a couple orders of magnitude &#8211; even <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=85263\">when Big Left begs for evidence of right wing terror they can&#8217;t find it<\/a>, while it just keeps coming to us.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Case in point:  while falsely calling Elon Musk a &#8220;Nazi&#8221;&#8230;<\/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\">Liberal man was seen chasing after and attacking a Cybertruck with a family traveling inside it near Bryant Park in NYC.<br><br>Liberals are the most vile, hateful, insufferable and toxic species on earth.<br><br> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/UwYhF9iXVy\">pic.twitter.com\/UwYhF9iXVy<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Liberacrat\u2122\ufe0f (@Liberacrat) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Liberacrat\/status\/1898954343820284412?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 10, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8230;they act exactly like brownshirts.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Or at least yap about it on social media:<\/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\">Why are liberals so violent? People just want a safe clean car. Leave them alone. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CoffeyTimeNews?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@CoffeyTimeNews<\/a> should be watched closely by the police <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/CEu62peiOB\">pic.twitter.com\/CEu62peiOB<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Whole Mars Catalog (@WholeMarsBlog) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WholeMarsBlog\/status\/1898877983533969765?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 9, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Gotta destroy the public square to save it, apparently.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I first codified Berg&#8217;s Seventh Law &#8211; progressives are always projecting their motives and actions onto conservatives &#8211; nearly twenty years ago.\u00a0 It may be the thing for which I and this blog are best known outside Minnesota.\u00a0 And there&#8217;s a reason for that.\u00a0 It&#8217;s universal. We&#8217;ve seen it in different ways in different eras [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[327,321],"tags":[243],"class_list":["post-89375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-big-activism","category-big-left","tag-bergs-7th-law"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89375","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=89375"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89375\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89378,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89375\/revisions\/89378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=89375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=89375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=89375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}