They\u2019re still<\/i> nuts.<\/p>\n
I held off on penning a blog post for a few days, in the thought that maybe, somehow, I was just overreacting and that there was some hidden logic to all of this that might become apparent with some distance.<\/p>\n
But\u2026 nope. Still nuts.<\/p>\n
What they\u2019re doing just doesn\u2019t make sense. It\u2019s the politics of emotion, paranoia, and wishful thinking.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s baffling and sad to see liberals support the regime\u2019s attempts to ban the Confederate flag and everything associated with it. I remember when liberals once stood for high ideals- things like freedom of speech and freedom of association. You know, the fundamental things that make us American. The things that make us human.<\/p>\n
Much of liberals\u2019 moral standing when I was growing up came from this- the fact that they would always stand up for someone\u2019s right to express themselves, even when that expression ran counter to what they themselves believed. It gave them credence. It gave them power. It gave them relevance.<\/p>\n
No more.<\/p>\n
For the past seven years I\u2019ve seen liberals dump every good idea they\u2019ve ever had to offer, every moral victory they\u2019ve ever claimed, every pretense of fairness, well, everything good, really, into the garbage, to defend Obama. They\u2019ve sacrificed their philosophy, every ounce of goodwill they\u2019ve built up with others over the life of their movement, and their entire three centuries of historical relevance, in an effort to make this man look good. <\/p>\n
It\u2019s sad, IMHO. It really is.<\/p>\n
They\u2019ve \u201cwon\u201d in the sense that they\u2019ve bullied their way into some things that they\u2019ve always wanted. But in doing so, they\u2019ve lost others\u2019 respect. Others, especially conservatives, once viewed them as worthy, intelligent, and necessary adversaries. They were once our competitors in the fight to make this nation better and more free. Now, they\u2019re only seen as hypocrites and tyrants. They\u2019re universally considered by outsiders now to be obstacles to human progress. They\u2019re now seen as enemies, and for good reason.<\/p>\n
Well, that\u2019s their choice. They can do what they want with their legacy.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s still sad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
They\u2019re still nuts. I held off on penning a blog post for a few days, in the thought that maybe, somehow, I was just overreacting and that there was some hidden logic to all of this that might become apparent with some distance. But\u2026 nope. Still nuts. What they\u2019re doing just doesn\u2019t make sense. It\u2019s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sighinide.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1473"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sighinide.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sighinide.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sighinide.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sighinide.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1473"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/sighinide.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1473\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1484,"href":"http:\/\/sighinide.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1473\/revisions\/1484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sighinide.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sighinide.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sighinide.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}