{"id":79002,"date":"2012-08-18T20:17:22","date_gmt":"2012-08-19T02:17:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/?p=79002"},"modified":"2012-08-18T20:17:22","modified_gmt":"2012-08-19T02:17:22","slug":"how-hatred-became-a-liberal-value","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/?p=79002","title":{"rendered":"How Hatred Became a Liberal Value"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ricochet.com\/main-feed\/How-Hatred-Became-a-Liberal-Value\" target=\"_blank\">Paul Rahe<\/a> blows the whistle.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I remember when liberals sported on their automobiles bumper stickers reading, \u201cHatred is not a Family Value.\u201d Then, back in 2003, in The New Republic, Jonathan Chait wrote an essay explaining why it was legitimate to hate George W. Bush, and the dam burst. Civility is no longer a liberal ideal. And now \u2013 as yesterday\u2019s armed attack on the Family Research Council in Washington, the five-hour delay in President Obama\u2019s condemnation of the act as he calculated whether it was in his interest to comment or not, and the mainstream media\u2019s initial reluctance to report on the event, much less highlight the activist LGBT connections of the shooter suggest \u2013 left liberals are willing to wink at violence. It may be regrettable, they think, but, like stealing elections, it is all in a good cause \u2013 and before figuring out how to respond to an outbreak of violence on the part of their allies, they pause to calculate the political consequences. You will not hear liberals arguing for a crackdown on the use of force by animal-rights activists, environmental activists, union thugs, and the Occupy movement. Instead, you will find in them a desperate hankering to pin on the Tea Party responsibility for conduct the Tea-Partiers abhor and a willingness to engage in race-baiting and talk of class warfare on a stunning scale.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paul Rahe blows the whistle. I remember when liberals sported on their automobiles bumper stickers reading, \u201cHatred is not a Family Value.\u201d Then, back in 2003, in The New Republic, Jonathan Chait wrote an essay explaining why it was legitimate to hate George W. Bush, and the dam burst. Civility is no longer a liberal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dystopia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79002","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=79002"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79002\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79004,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79002\/revisions\/79004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=79002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=79002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=79002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}