{"id":9347,"date":"2012-09-20T13:42:53","date_gmt":"2012-09-20T13:42:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2012\/09\/20\/why-there-cannot-be-a-decent-left\/"},"modified":"2012-09-20T13:42:53","modified_gmt":"2012-09-20T13:42:53","slug":"why-there-cannot-be-a-decent-left","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2012\/09\/20\/why-there-cannot-be-a-decent-left\/","title":{"rendered":"Why There Cannot Be a Decent Left"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">Ronald Radosh ends <a href=\"http:\/\/pjmedia.com\/ronradosh\/2012\/09\/19\/why-there-cannot-be-a-decent-left-an-answer-to-richard-landes\/?singlepage=true\" target=\"_self\">his piece<\/a> as follows:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">The truth is that the Left in the West, including our own Left, is largely anti-American, favorable to extremist radical social movements, and sees any one or group who is not on its side as not only incorrect, but morally evil. The answer to Michael Walzer\u2019s own query is still the same: it would be nice if there was a decent Left, but its small and ineffectual numbers prove that its creation is something that will never take place.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">Cf. Michael Walzer, <a href=\"http:\/\/www2.kenyon.edu\/Depts\/Religion\/Fac\/Adler\/Politics\/Waltzer.htm\" target=\"_self\">Can There Be a Decent Left?<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ronald Radosh ends his piece as follows: The truth is that the Left in the West, including our own Left, is largely anti-American, favorable to extremist radical social movements, and sees any one or group who is not on its side as not only incorrect, but morally evil. The answer to Michael Walzer\u2019s own query &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2012\/09\/20\/why-there-cannot-be-a-decent-left\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Why There Cannot Be a Decent Left&#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":[163],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-leftism-and-political-correctness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9347","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=9347"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9347\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}