{"id":1321,"date":"2018-09-04T05:53:27","date_gmt":"2018-09-04T05:53:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thewalrussaid.net\/?page_id=1321"},"modified":"2018-09-04T05:53:27","modified_gmt":"2018-09-04T05:53:27","slug":"on-conservatists","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/thewalrussaid.net\/index.php\/on-conservatists\/","title":{"rendered":"On Conservatists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Webster&#8217;s definition of &#8220;conservative&#8221;. &#8220;Conservative, n.<br \/>\nOne whose principals, methods, and habits are moderate and cautious;<br \/>\none who avoids extremes; an advocate of political caution.&#8221;<br \/>\nIs it &#8220;conservative&#8221; to vote billions of dollars to a military<br \/>\nthat engages in countless adventures around the world, inspired by<br \/>\ncountless administrations, thus resulting in the death of countless<br \/>\nthousands of innocent men, women and children?<br \/>\nIs it &#8220;conservative&#8221; to vote to end the only universal health<br \/>\ncoverage ever adopted in this nation, which conceivably could<br \/>\nresult in the debilitation and even death of countless Americans?<br \/>\nIs it &#8220;conservative&#8221; to allow this nation&#8217;s forests to be decimated,<br \/>\nits shores to be despoiled, its towns to be made uninhabitable by<br \/>\ncorporations whose only motivation is greed?<br \/>\nIs it &#8220;conservative&#8221; to allow this country&#8217;s infrastructure<br \/>\nto crumble, thus inevitably giving it the appearance of a<br \/>\nthird world nation?<br \/>\nIs it &#8220;conservative&#8221; to, not too subtilely, encourage racism<br \/>\nin this country?<br \/>\nIs it &#8220;conservative&#8221; to support a complete quack in this nation&#8217;s<br \/>\nhighest office and thus encourage his unabated tom-foolery?<br \/>\nIf this be &#8220;conservatism&#8221;, I say &#8220;fucking fie&#8221; on it.<br \/>\nIslander.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Webster&#8217;s definition of &#8220;conservative&#8221;. &#8220;Conservative, n. One whose principals, methods, and habits are moderate and cautious; one who avoids extremes; an advocate of political caution.&#8221; Is it &#8220;conservative&#8221; to vote billions of dollars to a military that engages in countless adventures around the world, inspired by countless administrations, thus resulting in the death of countless &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thewalrussaid.net\/index.php\/on-conservatists\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;On Conservatists&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1321","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewalrussaid.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewalrussaid.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewalrussaid.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewalrussaid.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewalrussaid.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1321"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thewalrussaid.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1321\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1322,"href":"https:\/\/thewalrussaid.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1321\/revisions\/1322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewalrussaid.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}