{"id":8607,"date":"2018-08-07T08:22:08","date_gmt":"2018-08-07T14:22:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/?p=8607"},"modified":"2018-08-07T08:22:08","modified_gmt":"2018-08-07T14:22:08","slug":"the-best-response-is-no-response","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/2018\/08\/the-best-response-is-no-response\/","title":{"rendered":"The best response is no response"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The best response to Leftist violence is to starve it of attention. Theater only works with an audience present. Don&#8217;t attend, only publish the conflicts on social media alongside critical analysis. Don&#8217;t give the barbarians meme space. Leave the angry Left alone to demonstrate and yell at itself.<\/p>\n<p>What possible reason exists to confront it in the streets anyway? Few arguments, however reasonably delivered, could be sufficiently compelling to change a zealots mind during a mob event. Confrontation sustains the mob, and that&#8217;s exactly what the mob is there to generate.<\/p>\n<p>Philosophical arguments aren&#8217;t settled in the streets. They require cool heads to even be heard.<\/p>\n<p>The Left knows this. That&#8217;s why they keep their people in a constant state of agitation. Don&#8217;t help them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The best response to Leftist violence is to starve it of attention. Theater only works with an audience present. Don&#8217;t attend, only publish the conflicts on social media alongside critical analysis. Don&#8217;t give the barbarians meme space. Leave the angry Left alone to demonstrate and yell at itself. What possible reason exists to confront it [&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":[82,77,263,52,338,45,83,139,80,212,341,103,38],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-8607","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-activism","7":"category-alinsky","8":"category-barbarians","9":"category-brown-shirt-tactics","10":"category-cry-bullies","11":"category-cult-politics","12":"category-democrats","13":"category-enabling","14":"category-fascism","15":"category-leftists","16":"category-snowflakes","17":"category-subversion","18":"category-the-mob","19":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8607","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=8607"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8607\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8609,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8607\/revisions\/8609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}