{"id":5315,"date":"2017-08-22T11:33:22","date_gmt":"2017-08-22T11:33:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2017\/08\/22\/liberals-are-so-stupid-a-cartoon-suffices-to-refute-them\/"},"modified":"2017-08-22T11:33:22","modified_gmt":"2017-08-22T11:33:22","slug":"liberals-are-so-stupid-a-cartoon-suffices-to-refute-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2017\/08\/22\/liberals-are-so-stupid-a-cartoon-suffices-to-refute-them\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberals are So Stupid A Cartoon Suffices to Refute Them"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\"><strong>The Political Burden of Proof<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">As contemporary &#39;liberals&#39; become ever more extreme, they increasingly assume what I call the&#0160;<em>political burden of proof<\/em>.&#0160; The onus is now on them to defeat the presumption that they are so&#0160; morally and intellectually obtuse as not to be worth talking to.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"asset-img-link\" href=\"http:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/.a\/6a010535ce1cf6970c01bb09bb86d5970d-pi\" style=\"display: inline;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Pyramids\" border=\"0\" class=\"asset  asset-image at-xid-6a010535ce1cf6970c01bb09bb86d5970d image-full img-responsive\" src=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/.a\/6a010535ce1cf6970c01bb09bb86d5970d-800wi\" title=\"Pyramids\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Political Burden of Proof As contemporary &#39;liberals&#39; become ever more extreme, they increasingly assume what I call the&#0160;political burden of proof.&#0160; The onus is now on them to defeat the presumption that they are so&#0160; morally and intellectually obtuse as not to be worth talking to.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[308,245],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cartoons","category-polemics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5315","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=5315"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5315\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}