{"id":3923,"date":"2019-03-07T13:39:43","date_gmt":"2019-03-07T13:39:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2019\/03\/07\/victor-davis-hanson-on-quiet-americas-resilience\/"},"modified":"2019-03-07T13:39:43","modified_gmt":"2019-03-07T13:39:43","slug":"victor-davis-hanson-on-quiet-americas-resilience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2019\/03\/07\/victor-davis-hanson-on-quiet-americas-resilience\/","title":{"rendered":"Victor Davis Hanson on Quiet America&#8217;s Resilience"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"_5pbx userContent _3576\" data-ft=\"{&quot;tn&quot;:&quot;K&quot;}\" id=\"js_i8r\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">Conservatives such as Victor Davis Hanson have a sense of history and are respectful of its lessons. Leftists are a species of retromingent who piss on the past and seek its erasure. That is why they tear down historical monuments. Leftists confuse the world with their utopian fantasy of what they would like it to be. They are deracinated u-topians, Nowhere Men or rather Nowhere Children. The conservative stands on the <em>terra firma<\/em> of a reality antecedent to his hopes and dreams, adjusting the latter by what experience has taught him is in the realm of the possible. The fundamental metaphysical error of contemporary leftists is their denial of objective reality. But this objective reality has a way of biting in the ass the fools who piss on the past. 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Leftists are a species of retromingent who piss on the past and seek its erasure. That is why they tear down historical monuments. Leftists confuse the world with their utopian fantasy of what they would like it to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2019\/03\/07\/victor-davis-hanson-on-quiet-americas-resilience\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Victor Davis Hanson on Quiet America&#8217;s Resilience&#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":[199,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3923","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=3923"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3923\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}