{"id":6024,"date":"2016-11-21T15:47:36","date_gmt":"2016-11-21T15:47:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2016\/11\/21\/advice-for-the-loyal-opposition\/"},"modified":"2016-11-21T15:47:36","modified_gmt":"2016-11-21T15:47:36","slug":"advice-for-the-loyal-opposition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2016\/11\/21\/advice-for-the-loyal-opposition\/","title":{"rendered":"Advice for the Loyal Opposition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino;\">Mark Steyn (HT: <a href=\"http:\/\/billkeezer.net\/billscomments\/\">Bill Keezer<\/a>):<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino;\">&quot;The object of Parliament,&quot; observed Winston Churchill at election time in 1951, &quot;is to substitute argument for fisticuffs.&quot;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino;\">How&#39;s that holding up after November 8th? The object of at least a proportion of those on the streets is to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.powerlineblog.com\/archives\/2016\/11\/democrats-vicious-violent-anti-democratic.php\" target=\"_blank\">substitute fisticuffs for argument<\/a>, and indeed for Parliament: The less self-aware even chant &quot;This is what democracy looks like!&quot; &#8211; by which they mean not the election but the post-election riots and looting and assaults. Some among these self-proclaimed champions of women and immigrants wish to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/big-government\/2016\/11\/13\/twitter-allows-rape-melania-to-trend-after-site-explodes-with-trump-assassination-threats\/\" target=\"_blank\">substitute rape for argument<\/a>, a cause of such broad appeal that the ideological enforcers at the monopoly social-media cartels breezily permitted the hashtag &quot;Rape Melania&quot; to &quot;trend&quot; on Twitter.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.steynonline.com\/7598\/advice-for-the-loyal-opposition\">Read it all.<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Steyn (HT: Bill Keezer): &quot;The object of Parliament,&quot; observed Winston Churchill at election time in 1951, &quot;is to substitute argument for fisticuffs.&quot; How&#39;s that holding up after November 8th? The object of at least a proportion of those on the streets is to substitute fisticuffs for argument, and indeed for Parliament: The less self-aware &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2016\/11\/21\/advice-for-the-loyal-opposition\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Advice for the Loyal Opposition&#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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6024","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=6024"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6024\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}