{"id":4485,"date":"2018-06-17T05:34:25","date_gmt":"2018-06-17T05:34:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2018\/06\/17\/leftists-as-politically-retromingent\/"},"modified":"2018-06-17T05:34:25","modified_gmt":"2018-06-17T05:34:25","slug":"leftists-as-politically-retromingent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2018\/06\/17\/leftists-as-politically-retromingent\/","title":{"rendered":"Leftists as Politically Retromingent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">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: 11pt;\">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 <em>piety<\/em> in the leftist, no <em>reverence<\/em>. Try using those words at a Manhattan or <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Georgetown_(Washington,_D.C.)#Notable_residents\">Georgetown<\/a> cocktail party and see what happens.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">This political retromingency helps explain the leftists&#39; lack of respect for language.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">Related: <a href=\"http:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/maverick_philosopher\/2009\/08\/on-reverence.html\">On Reverence&#0160;<\/a><\/span><\/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 piety in the leftist, no reverence. Try using those words at a Manhattan or Georgetown cocktail party and see what happens. This political retromingency &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2018\/06\/17\/leftists-as-politically-retromingent\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Leftists as Politically Retromingent&#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":[69,163],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aphorisms-and-observations","category-leftism-and-political-correctness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4485","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=4485"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4485\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}