{"id":4168,"date":"2018-10-07T11:37:44","date_gmt":"2018-10-07T11:37:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2018\/10\/07\/rod-dreher-on-the-purveyors-of-progressive-poison\/"},"modified":"2018-10-07T11:37:44","modified_gmt":"2018-10-07T11:37:44","slug":"rod-dreher-on-the-purveyors-of-progressive-poison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2018\/10\/07\/rod-dreher-on-the-purveyors-of-progressive-poison\/","title":{"rendered":"Rod Dreher on the Purveyors of ‘Progressive’ Poison"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here<\/a>:<\/span><\/p>\n

These people. They have to be stopped. They\u2019re ruining life. Who wants to work for a company where you can become an internal pariah for standing by your old friend? Who wants to work in a neurosis-ridden hamster cage where you have to be afraid that the internal mob will turn on you for having the \u201cwrong\u201d opinion? Who wants to get involved in helping out at your local school when ideologically-charged activists rush in to politicize everything?<\/span><\/p>\n

[. . .]<\/span><\/p>\n

UPDATE:<\/strong> A reader who grew up in communist Czechoslovakia writes:<\/span><\/p>\n

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It may look like Communism but it isn\u2019t.  It\u2019s worse. Nobody, and I mean nobody (perhaps with one notable exception of a very decent guy, actually), believed the communist propaganda drivel. I don\u2019t recall anybody fainting at the thought of imperialist \u2018diversants\u2019 sneaking across the border, revanchists hiding in their closets. It was a mechanism to control, brutalize and destroy and both the brutes and the brutalized understood it as such. Our current situation is somewhat unique. We actually have a large class of people who take this garbage at face value. That\u2019s scary.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here: These people. They have to be stopped. They\u2019re ruining life. Who wants to work for a company where you can become an internal pariah for standing by your old friend? Who wants to work in a neurosis-ridden hamster cage where you have to be afraid that the internal mob will turn on you for … Continue reading “Rod Dreher on the Purveyors of ‘Progressive’ Poison”<\/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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-leftism-and-political-correctness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4168","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=4168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4168\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}