{"id":29,"date":"2008-11-04T22:45:17","date_gmt":"2008-11-05T05:45:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.asinglelion.com\/lionspeak\/?p=29"},"modified":"2008-11-04T22:45:17","modified_gmt":"2008-11-05T05:45:17","slug":"my-election-response","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.asinglelion.com\/lionspeak\/?p=29","title":{"rendered":"My Election Response"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span lang=\"EN\"><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: small; font-family: Times New Roman;\">I believe this election is the Death Knell of Conservatism as a political philosophy. The problem is conservatives are too interested in protecting collective intuitions rather than the freedom of individuals. The fact is conservatism is as collectivist as liberalism. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: small; font-family: Times New Roman;\">The solution is individualism, separation of state and institutions, and Laissez Faire Capitalism.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span>I am convened as almost as much as God exist, as long as the looters and moochers feels entitled to force others to sacrifice for their benefit the endless spiral to statism will continue. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: small; font-family: Times New Roman;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"color: #333333; font-family: Georgia;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">&#8220;I swear by my life and my love of it that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine.&#8221;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"color: #333333; font-family: Georgia;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">It is the only way.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I believe this election is the Death Knell of Conservatism as a political philosophy. The problem is conservatives are too interested in protecting collective intuitions rather than the freedom of individuals. The fact is conservatism is as collectivist as liberalism. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.asinglelion.com\/lionspeak\/?p=29\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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":[4],"tags":[16],"class_list":["post-29","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-election-2008"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asinglelion.com\/lionspeak\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asinglelion.com\/lionspeak\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asinglelion.com\/lionspeak\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asinglelion.com\/lionspeak\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asinglelion.com\/lionspeak\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.asinglelion.com\/lionspeak\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30,"href":"https:\/\/www.asinglelion.com\/lionspeak\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29\/revisions\/30"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asinglelion.com\/lionspeak\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asinglelion.com\/lionspeak\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asinglelion.com\/lionspeak\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}