{"id":5471,"date":"2017-06-01T11:10:17","date_gmt":"2017-06-01T11:10:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2017\/06\/01\/isnt-the-rope-too-long\/"},"modified":"2017-06-01T11:10:17","modified_gmt":"2017-06-01T11:10:17","slug":"isnt-the-rope-too-long","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2017\/06\/01\/isnt-the-rope-too-long\/","title":{"rendered":"Isn’t the Rope Too Long?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Death<\/a>"Isn't the rope too long?" I wrote to the man who sent me the graphic a sinistra<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n

He replied, " The idea is the tree will grow and eventually be tall enough to hang him."<\/span><\/p>\n

"I got that," said I.  "But trees grow slowly and there's a lot of rope that has to hoisted before the man is hanged. Although Islam's threat to the culture of Europe is not imminent, it is not far in the future either.<\/span><\/p>\n

So I say the rope is too long!"<\/span><\/div>\n
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In battling our ideological and existential enemies, all methods must be employed, including cartoons, jokes, mockery, derision, and tweets.  You have to make them look ridiculous and 'uncool.' The young and immature are inordinately impressed by what is 'cool' and what is not.  So we need comics like Dennis Miller and polemicists like Kurt Schlichter whose name for Hillary is 'Felonia von Pant-Suit.' That is perhaps more effective than the more accurate but brutal 'Crooked Hillary.'<\/span><\/div>\n
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Learned disquisitions and carefully crafted arguments are necessary but insufficient. You have to get the attention of the masses besotted and benumbed by the ever-present wash of media dreck.<\/span><\/div>\n
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Memo to George F. Will, et al.: it's about saving the West from its main internal threat, leftism, and its main external threat, radical Islam. It's not about gentlemanly conversations about Edmund Burke over good brandy and fine cigars in well-appointed drawing rooms while Rome burns.<\/span><\/div>\n
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"Isn't the rope too long?" I wrote to the man who sent me the graphic a sinistra. He replied, " The idea is the tree will grow and eventually be tall enough to hang him." "I got that," said I.  "But trees grow slowly and there's a lot of rope that has to hoisted before the … Continue reading “Isn’t the Rope Too Long?”<\/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":[308,180,119],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cartoons","category-decline-of-the-west","category-islamism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5471","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=5471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5471\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}