{"id":1576,"date":"2009-09-03T09:34:47","date_gmt":"2009-09-03T16:34:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/2009\/09\/03\/i-pledge\/"},"modified":"2009-11-01T08:51:09","modified_gmt":"2009-11-01T15:51:09","slug":"i-pledge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/2009\/09\/i-pledge\/","title":{"rendered":"I pledge&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li> to not drink the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=51kAw4OTlA0\">KoolAid<\/a>, and<\/li>\n<li> to critically analyze every public policy, regardless of source and regardless of how magically it is marketed, and<\/li>\n<li> to only support public policies objectively proven to work, that cannot be done more effectively by private resources, that do not diminish American constitutional freedoms, that do not aggrandize politicians, and that do not expand federal or state governments, and<\/li>\n<li> to subscribe to <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahawk.typepad.com\/iowahawk\/2009\/01\/i-pledge.html\">Iowahawk<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I see no grounds for hope that these <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=51kAw4OTlA0\">brainwashed tools<\/a> will come to reason.\u00a0 When we do not submit to them, when we do not endorse their cult, they will get angry.\u00a0 They have power now and will resort to force.\u00a0 Innocent people will die at their hands.\u00a0 When that happens I will be one of those killed.\u00a0 This has happened many times throughout history and will happen again.\u00a0 We are not immune.\u00a0 Power has only increased the left&#8217;s lust for  more power.\u00a0 The faiths of their economic, social and political myths  must be satisfied.\u00a0 Outcomes don&#8217;t matter, only belief matters&#8211;that and salesmanship.\u00a0 Crushed skulls are merely inconvenient.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>to not drink the KoolAid, and to critically analyze every public policy, regardless of source and regardless of how magically it is marketed, and to only support public policies objectively proven to work, that cannot be done more effectively by private resources, that do not diminish American constitutional freedoms, that do not aggrandize politicians, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1576","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-cult-politics","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1576","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1576"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1576\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}