{"id":898,"date":"2024-03-06T04:34:54","date_gmt":"2024-03-06T04:34:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2024\/03\/06\/what-leftists-mean-by-democracy\/"},"modified":"2024-03-06T04:34:54","modified_gmt":"2024-03-06T04:34:54","slug":"what-leftists-mean-by-democracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2024\/03\/06\/what-leftists-mean-by-democracy\/","title":{"rendered":"What Leftists Mean by ‘Democracy’"},"content":{"rendered":"

They mean woke globalist plutocracy<\/em>, or something in the semantic vicinity thereof.  This is why the enemies of the people see nothing contradictory in using 'lawfare' to keep Donald Trump off the ballot. We the people, however, understand 'democracy' to mean rule by the people. On this understanding of the word, it makes no logical sense to attempt to defend democracy anti-democratically, that is, by silencing the vox populi<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Orange Man, however, gets the last laugh since SCOTUS has spoken, 9-0.   Even Justice Jackson went along, she who doesn't know what a woman is. Has she grown a pair?<\/span><\/p>\n

The THC level of the stuff smoked in Colorado these days is much higher than that of the  weed  smoked back in those fabulous and far-off  '60s.  And the Coloradans, unlike Bill Clinton, inhale.  The Rocky Mountain high is now 'plutocratically' high. Are the higher THC levels a causal factor, along with high altitude, in the etiology of Coloradan chucklephuckery?<\/span><\/p>\n

Is that a rhetorical question or am I really asking? And what about the immediately preceding question? Rhetorical, or am I really asking?<\/span><\/p>\n

Hot damn, if I didn't enjoy writing the above! The joy of blog. Seriously, though, mockery and derision are among the weapons we must deploy against our political enemies. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

They mean woke globalist plutocracy, or something in the semantic vicinity thereof.  This is why the enemies of the people see nothing contradictory in using 'lawfare' to keep Donald Trump off the ballot. We the people, however, understand 'democracy' to mean rule by the people. On this understanding of the word, it makes no logical … Continue reading “What Leftists Mean by ‘Democracy’”<\/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":[6,295,43,195,144],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-language-matters","category-pathocracy-and-totalitarianism","category-political-language","category-political-satire","category-political-wit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/898","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=898"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/898\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}