{"id":1251,"date":"2023-09-13T08:32:01","date_gmt":"2023-09-13T08:32:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2023\/09\/13\/rod-dreher-talks-sense\/"},"modified":"2023-09-13T08:32:01","modified_gmt":"2023-09-13T08:32:01","slug":"rod-dreher-talks-sense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2023\/09\/13\/rod-dreher-talks-sense\/","title":{"rendered":"Rod Dreher Talks Sense"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/europeanconservative.com\/articles\/essay\/learning-from-illiberal-democracy\/\">Here<\/a>:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">In America, when you hear media figures and politicians gassing on about \u201cthreats to democracy,\u201d you should be aware that what they really&#0160;<em>might<\/em>&#0160;mean is \u201cthreats to a system that favors current elites and their prejudices, against the common good.\u201d&#0160;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">And this despite Dreher&#39;s to-me-incomprehensible&#0160; case of TDS.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">Delete the <em>might<\/em> and Dreher&#39;s point is spot on.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">No word or phrase is safe from an Orwellian language-hijacker, and leftists are language-hijackers, as I have been documenting online since 2004.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here: In America, when you hear media figures and politicians gassing on about \u201cthreats to democracy,\u201d you should be aware that what they really&#0160;might&#0160;mean is \u201cthreats to a system that favors current elites and their prejudices, against the common good.\u201d&#0160; And this despite Dreher&#39;s to-me-incomprehensible&#0160; case of TDS. Delete the might and Dreher&#39;s point is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2023\/09\/13\/rod-dreher-talks-sense\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Rod Dreher Talks Sense&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-language-matters","category-political-language"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1251\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}