{"id":362,"date":"2022-08-08T18:38:07","date_gmt":"2022-08-08T22:38:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikesylvia.org\/?p=362"},"modified":"2022-08-08T18:38:08","modified_gmt":"2022-08-08T22:38:08","slug":"extremist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikesylvia.org\/?p=362","title":{"rendered":"Extremist"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Beware citizens, there are radicals and extremists roaming the countryside.  That\u2019s what all those signs littering the streets would have you believe.  Oddly enough they seem to consider freedom to be a radical concept.  This, in the \u2018<em>land of the free<\/em>,\u2019 doesn\u2019t make sense.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In order to understand what\u2019s really going on, you need to consider the source.  It appears that the source is working from an instruction manual.  Perhaps they are using Saul Alinsky\u2019s \u2018<em>Rules for Radicals<\/em>\u2019?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Alan Posnack audaciously claims to be the leader of the citizens of Belknap County.  He and a small band of entitled elitists scatter their trash across the county in an attempt to appear to be supported by the average people of the area.  These are the same sorts of people that want to ban \u2018single use\u2019 plastic bags.  They lack the self-awareness to see the irony of the mess they create.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As Rob Natelson writes in his article, <em><a href=\"https:\/\/tenthamendmentcenter.com\/2012\/06\/11\/beware-the-word-extremist\/\">Beware the Word \u201cExtremist\u201d<\/a><\/em>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p> The modern \u201cprogressive\u201d project has centered on changing the key factors of cultural and freedom: attacking the culture, undermining constitutional restraints on government, and expanding the public sector until it dominates American life. A group seeks to topple the central pillars of a system is by definition \u201cextremist,\u201d no matter what they call their opponents.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>I\u2019ll happily accept the badge of honor offered by \u2018progressives\u2019 for my work in leading the most conservative county delegation in the state of New Hampshire.  They are a small minority desperate to distract you from the <strong>catastrophic failures of the Biden administration<\/strong> of which you are reminded every time you reach for your wallet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beware citizens, there are radicals and extremists roaming the countryside. That\u2019s what all those signs littering the streets would have you believe. Oddly enough they seem to consider freedom to be a radical concept. This, in the \u2018land of the free,\u2019 doesn\u2019t make sense. In order to understand what\u2019s really going on, you need to &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mikesylvia.org\/?p=362\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Extremist&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":169,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[132,104,123,127,133,134,131],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikesylvia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikesylvia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikesylvia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikesylvia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikesylvia.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=362"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mikesylvia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":365,"href":"https:\/\/mikesylvia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362\/revisions\/365"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikesylvia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikesylvia.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikesylvia.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikesylvia.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}