{"id":8148,"date":"2014-02-06T04:34:15","date_gmt":"2014-02-06T04:34:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2014\/02\/06\/andrew-cuomo-and-liberal-extremism\/"},"modified":"2014-02-06T04:34:15","modified_gmt":"2014-02-06T04:34:15","slug":"andrew-cuomo-and-liberal-extremism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2014\/02\/06\/andrew-cuomo-and-liberal-extremism\/","title":{"rendered":"Andrew Cuomo and ‘Liberal’ Extremism"},"content":{"rendered":"

A recurrent theme of mine is that contemporary liberals are extremists.  Note the qualifier 'contemporary.'  I am not talking about 1960 JFK liberals, let alone the classical liberals of the 19th century. Contemporary liberals are, in my recent coinage, LINO<\/em>s, liberals in name only.  What in fact they are are hard leftists.<\/span><\/p>\n

So I suppose I should thank Andrew Cuomo, governor of New York and son of Mario Cuomo for saying what he and his ilk think when their normal modus operandi<\/em> is to hide what they really think and engage in stealth tactics, Obama being a prime practitioner thereof.  Cuomo has spilled the beans and shown his true colors if you will permit me a mixed metaphor.  Here is what he said:<\/span><\/p>\n

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Who are they? Are they these extreme conservatives who are right-to-life, pro-assault-weapon, anti-gay? Is that who they are? Because if that\u2019s who they are and they\u2019re the extreme conservatives, they have no place in the state of New York, because that\u2019s not who New Yorkers are.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Does this deserve a civil response?  No, but it does call for a response, of the sort illustrated here<\/a>.
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A recurrent theme of mine is that contemporary liberals are extremists.  Note the qualifier 'contemporary.'  I am not talking about 1960 JFK liberals, let alone the classical liberals of the 19th century. Contemporary liberals are, in my recent coinage, LINOs, liberals in name only.  What in fact they are are hard leftists. So I suppose … Continue reading “Andrew Cuomo and ‘Liberal’ Extremism”<\/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":[180,163],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-decline-of-the-west","category-leftism-and-political-correctness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8148","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=8148"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8148\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}