{"id":660,"date":"2008-06-03T09:24:52","date_gmt":"2008-06-03T15:24:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=660"},"modified":"2008-06-03T09:24:52","modified_gmt":"2008-06-03T15:24:52","slug":"liberalism-on-the-rise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=660","title":{"rendered":"Liberalism on the Rise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Double tree has computers, but they come out in this really big font and I can&#8217;t figure out how to decrease the size.\u00a0 So, I&#8217;ll. just. shout. it.\u00a0 out.\u00a0 o. k. ?<\/p>\n<p>When I left Jon and Jen&#8217;s last night, Barb was still at the ER at University Hospital.\u00a0 I&#8217;m headed over there now to help with housecleaning, so I&#8217;ll find out what\u00a0 happened.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a line now at the computers.\u00a0 That&#8217;s what comes with socialism, when everything&#8217;s free.\u00a0 Or, at least when the cost is hidden.\u00a0 Gal just stood, drinking coffee, looking at me.\u00a0 Passive aggressive.<\/p>\n<p>Read the newspaper this morning about the\u00a0economy.\u00a0 Bad news.\u00a0 Which is\u00a0 good news for Democrats.\u00a0\u00a0 Also, an interesting article by somebody named Jonathan Goldberg.\u00a0 He&#8217;s an editor of the National Review and author of a book, Liberal Fascism.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>His perspective is that conservativism will rise again.\u00a0 He said over and over that Republican does not equal conservatism.\u00a0 The current administration spent like &#8220;a pimp with a\u00a0week to live.&#8221;\u00a0 A colorful metaphor.\u00a0 I suspect the gut of his argument is correct, however, and that is that conservatism is a part of the American ethos and will only be challenged by a liberal ascendancy, not obliterated.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>We can only\u00a0 hope that first, the ascendancy will happen, and that it will produce affects that have a long shelf life, like Social Security and Medicare.\u00a0 Which do need to get fixed.\u00a0 Amen.<\/p>\n<p>OK.\u00a0 Out for now.\u00a0 See\u00a0you on the flipside of the bris.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Double tree has computers, but they come out in this really big font and I can&#8217;t figure out how to decrease the size.\u00a0 So, I&#8217;ll. just. shout. it.\u00a0 out.\u00a0 o. k. ? When I left Jon and Jen&#8217;s last night, Barb was still at the ER at University Hospital.\u00a0 I&#8217;m headed over there now to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=660\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Liberalism on the Rise<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65,23,100],"tags":[474,4353],"class_list":["post-660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family","category-geekworld","category-politics","tag-computers","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=660"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}