{"id":372,"date":"2024-12-25T12:24:19","date_gmt":"2024-12-25T12:24:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2024\/12\/25\/leftists-as-political-retromingents\/"},"modified":"2024-12-25T12:24:19","modified_gmt":"2024-12-25T12:24:19","slug":"leftists-as-political-retromingents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2024\/12\/25\/leftists-as-political-retromingents\/","title":{"rendered":"Leftists as Political Retromingents"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">A&#0160;<span class=\"search-results-highlight\">retromingent<\/span>&#0160;is an animal that urinates backwards.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">Posturing as &#39;progressive,&#39; the leftist pisses on the past, seeking to erase its memory by destroying monuments and redacting the historical record.&#0160; There is no&#0160;<em>piety<\/em>&#0160;in the leftist, no&#0160;<em>reverence<\/em>. Try using those words at a Manhattan or Georgetown&#0160;cocktail party and see what happens.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">This political retromingency helps explain the leftists&#39; lack of respect for language.&#0160;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">If you erase history, however, not only will you not be able to learn from it, but you won&#39;t have anything left to piss on, either.&#0160; Your retromingency will cut counter to your benighted and backwards&#0160; <em>modus vivendi et micturendi.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">Instructive story <a href=\"https:\/\/www.powerlineblog.com\/archives\/2019\/04\/renaming-mania-curbed-in-minnesota.php\">here<\/a>.&#0160;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-216249\" height=\"324\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.powerlineblog.com\/ed-assets\/2019\/04\/img_9066.jpg?resize=550%2C324&amp;ssl=1\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.powerlineblog.com\/ed-assets\/2019\/04\/img_9066.jpg?w=550&amp;ssl=1 550w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.powerlineblog.com\/ed-assets\/2019\/04\/img_9066.jpg?resize=300%2C177&amp;ssl=1 300w\" width=\"550\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A&#0160;retromingent&#0160;is an animal that urinates backwards. Posturing as &#39;progressive,&#39; the leftist pisses on the past, seeking to erase its memory by destroying monuments and redacting the historical record.&#0160; There is no&#0160;piety&#0160;in the leftist, no&#0160;reverence. Try using those words at a Manhattan or Georgetown&#0160;cocktail party and see what happens. This political retromingency helps explain the leftists&#39; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2024\/12\/25\/leftists-as-political-retromingents\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Leftists as Political Retromingents&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[163,245,43,123,29,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-leftism-and-political-correctness","category-polemics","category-political-language","category-political-morality","category-political-ponerology","category-wokery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372","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=372"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}