{"id":3115,"date":"2018-07-08T23:11:58","date_gmt":"2018-07-09T05:11:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cruithni.wordpress.com\/?p=3115"},"modified":"2018-07-08T23:11:58","modified_gmt":"2018-07-09T05:11:58","slug":"when-the-left-uses-civility-as-a-weapon-drop-it-and-fight-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/?p=3115","title":{"rendered":"When The Left Uses Civility As A Weapon, Drop It And Fight Back"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>The detail that conservatives tend to forget is that when one party violates a contract, the other party is no longer bound by all of its terms. If you sign a contract to buy a car, and the dealer refuses to turn it over you, you aren\u2019t \u201csinking to their level\u201d by refusing to hand over your money. If you contract an employee who never shows up for work, you aren\u2019t \u201crepaying evil for evil\u201d by withholding his wages. The same is true when dealing with people who are deliberately uncivil to civil people \u2014 it fundamentally changes what the rest of society owes them.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In other words, the aggressor makes the rules. We don&#8217;t &#8216;stoop to their level&#8217; by fighting aggression by their rules.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2018\/07\/05\/left-uses-civility-weapon-drop-fight-back\/\">When The Left Uses Civility As A Weapon, Drop It And Fight Back<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The detail that conservatives tend to forget is that when one party violates a contract, the other party is no longer bound by all of its terms. If you sign a contract to buy a car, and the dealer refuses to turn it over you, you aren\u2019t \u201csinking to their level\u201d by refusing to hand &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/?p=3115\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">When The Left Uses Civility As A Weapon, Drop It And Fight Back<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,3,125,75,115],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-evil","category-democrats","category-liberals","category-wisdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3115\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}