{"id":911,"date":"2024-02-29T04:48:09","date_gmt":"2024-02-29T04:48:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2024\/02\/29\/getting-tough-with-our-political-enemies\/"},"modified":"2024-02-29T04:48:09","modified_gmt":"2024-02-29T04:48:09","slug":"getting-tough-with-our-political-enemies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2024\/02\/29\/getting-tough-with-our-political-enemies\/","title":{"rendered":"Getting Tough with Our Political Enemies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 13pt;\">If we get tough with them politically, then we may be able to avoid having to get tough with them extra-politically. Let&#39;s hope and pray that we only have to <em>prepare<\/em> to enter the extra-political and not actually go there. For it won&#39;t be pretty.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 13pt;\">But I see no good reason to be particularly sanguine. The Muse of Blog must be with me this morning: &#39;sanguine&#39; is exactly the right word.&#0160;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If we get tough with them politically, then we may be able to avoid having to get tough with them extra-politically. Let&#39;s hope and pray that we only have to prepare to enter the extra-political and not actually go there. For it won&#39;t be pretty. But I see no good reason to be particularly sanguine. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2024\/02\/29\/getting-tough-with-our-political-enemies\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Getting Tough with Our Political Enemies&#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":[69,312],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aphorisms-and-observations","category-political-pessimism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/911","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=911"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/911\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}