{"id":7929,"date":"2016-07-28T08:20:21","date_gmt":"2016-07-28T14:20:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/?p=7929"},"modified":"2016-07-28T08:20:21","modified_gmt":"2016-07-28T14:20:21","slug":"understanding-the-left","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/2016\/07\/understanding-the-left\/","title":{"rendered":"understanding the Left"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/The-Gnosticism-of-Barack-Obama-Crisis-Magazine.pdf\">The Gnosticism of Barack Obama &#8211; Crisis Magazine<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Indeed, the Left are Gnostics and every speech at <a class=\"_58cn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hashtag\/dncinphl?source=feed_text&amp;story_id=10209039290672963\" data-ft=\"{&quot;tn&quot;:&quot;*N&quot;,&quot;type&quot;:104}\"><span class=\"_58cl\">#<\/span><span class=\"_58cm\">DNCinPHL<\/span><\/a> illustrates this point.<\/p>\n<p>Speakers provide no analyses, no methods, no proofs, no procedures, no causal chains \u2026 nothing dispositive! The Left are much too absorbed with knowing their convictions to worry about how they arrived at their glorious conclusions.<\/p>\n<p>The conclusions are so wonderful that further discussion is pointless. Why bother with analyzing what everyone KNOWS? &#8211; the Gnosis! You already have all you n<span class=\"text_exposed_show\">eed in the conclusion itself, so there\u2019s no point in questioning how it was derived.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"text_exposed_show\">\n<p>Things are so evident to the Left, anyone who doubts them is an evil, neanderthal, racist, homophobic, oppressive, denier of their evident truth. And they mean these things literally. It\u2019s not a close call for them.<\/p>\n<p>So we doubters personify pure evil to them and must be suppressed, shouted down, ostracized, marginalized, ridiculed, and shut up. After all, why would anyone tolerate the continued existence of pure evil? Pure evil does not deserve to live.<\/p>\n<p>Everyone knows this.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Gnosticism of Barack Obama &#8211; Crisis Magazine Indeed, the Left are Gnostics and every speech at #DNCinPHL illustrates this point. Speakers provide no analyses, no methods, no proofs, no procedures, no causal chains \u2026 nothing dispositive! The Left are much too absorbed with knowing their convictions to worry about how they arrived at their [&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":[328,85],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-7929","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-gnosticism","7":"category-leftism","8":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7929","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=7929"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7929\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7933,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7929\/revisions\/7933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}