{"id":837,"date":"2009-10-19T18:12:20","date_gmt":"2009-10-19T23:12:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/?p=837"},"modified":"2009-10-19T18:12:53","modified_gmt":"2009-10-19T23:12:53","slug":"brain-dead-conservatives-obsessed-with-%e2%80%98freedom%e2%80%99","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/?p=837","title":{"rendered":"Brain-Dead Conservatives Obsessed with \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcFreedom\u00e2\u20ac\u2122"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Satire from: <a href=\"http:\/\/pajamasmedia.com\/blog\/brain-dead-conservatives-obsessed-with-freedom\/\" target=\"_blank\">Pajamas Media<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Conservative arguments against President Obama are becoming increasingly silly. They oppose Obama rescuing businesses despite all the jobs on the line, they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re against government taking control of health care from soulless insurance companies, and they oppose increased taxes on energy consumption despite the sorry state of the environment. And why do they oppose these most sensible actions? Because of their irrational, brain-dead obsession with liberty<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;Liberty doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t feed your family. Liberty doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t heal you when you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re sick. Liberty doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t educate your children. A strong government can do all those things, but apparently that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s against liberty.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230; Most of the civilized world has moved beyond this uncompromising view of \u00e2\u20ac\u0153freedom\u00e2\u20ac\u009d \u00e2\u20ac\u201d if they were ever foolish enough to adopt it in the first place. Can you think of any other country that would permit its citizens to have guns like America does? Of course not; that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s beyond moronic. People know freedom is a dangerous, scary thing, and you have to be careful how much you tolerate.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/pajamasmedia.com\/blog\/brain-dead-conservatives-obsessed-with-freedom\/\">Read the whole thing.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Satire from: Pajamas Media Conservative arguments against President Obama are becoming increasingly silly. They oppose Obama rescuing businesses despite all the jobs on the line, they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re against government taking control of health care from soulless insurance companies, and they oppose increased taxes on energy consumption despite the sorry state of the environment. And why do [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,9,8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/837"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=837"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/837\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":839,"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/837\/revisions\/839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}