{"id":3361,"date":"2013-02-22T13:20:28","date_gmt":"2013-02-22T20:20:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/2013\/02\/22\/doublethink-2\/"},"modified":"2013-02-22T14:55:50","modified_gmt":"2013-02-22T21:55:50","slug":"doublethink-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/2013\/02\/doublethink-2\/","title":{"rendered":"doublethink"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;In the extended republic of the United States, and among the great variety of interests, parties, and sects which it embraces, a coalition of a majority of the whole society could seldom take place on any other principles than those of <em>justice<\/em> and the <em>general good<\/em>[.]&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>James Madison, Federalist No. 51<\/p>\n<p>In the name of <em>justice<\/em>, the Left pursue\u00a0<em>social justice<\/em>.\u00a0 In the name of the\u00a0<em>general good<\/em>, the Left pursue <em>entitlements<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Much like Islamists hide behind English translations to mask their jihad, the Left hide behind un-mutated original concepts to deceive those who can refute their substituted deceptions.<\/p>\n<p>The Left took what began as universal principles for all Americans, principles essential to the American order protected by our Constitution and responsible for America&#8217;s success, and turned them into narrow principles for the benefit of only those Americans in their voting block, and to the detriment of the rest of Americans with whom they disagree.<\/p>\n<p>Madison was correct, but he did not anticipate the subversion of language that the Left now routinely practices.\u00a0 He did not anticipate the level of malice that would make the corruption of language routine in America&#8211;that would take away our ability to speak a common language and understand each others real differences.<\/p>\n<p>Now ask yourself, &#8220;Who does this imposed confusion benefit?&#8221;\u00a0 It&#8217;s certainly not the people, whatever their economic condition.\u00a0 So who does that leave?\u00a0 Government.<\/p>\n<p>And who runs government?\u00a0 The schools?\u00a0 The bureaucracies? \u00a0 The regulatory agencies?\u00a0 The planning agencies?\u00a0 In every case, it&#8217;s the Left.<\/p>\n<p>B_Imperial<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;In the extended republic of the United States, and among the great variety of interests, parties, and sects which it embraces, a coalition of a majority of the whole society could seldom take place on any other principles than those of justice and the general good[.]&#8221; James Madison, Federalist No. 51 In the name of [&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":[129,65,103],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3361","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-misrepresentation","7":"category-progressivism","8":"category-subversion","9":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3361","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=3361"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3361\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}