{"id":5200,"date":"2009-12-19T12:33:46","date_gmt":"2009-12-19T19:33:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/?p=5200"},"modified":"2009-12-19T12:33:46","modified_gmt":"2009-12-19T19:33:46","slug":"wait-is-this-banner-proclaiming-itself-soviet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2009\/12\/19\/wait-is-this-banner-proclaiming-itself-soviet\/","title":{"rendered":"Wait. Is this banner proclaiming itself Soviet?"},"content":{"rendered":"

I linked to a page and pointed out this banner in my last post, but these things will be wasted unless I point to it a bit further.<\/p>\n

\"enemiesofthepeople\"<\/p>\n

Huh?<\/p>\n

What does this mean?\u00c2\u00a0 This thing is confusing to me.\u00c2\u00a0 When I hear the phrase “Enemies of the People”, I think of the Soviet Union’s dissidents.\u00c2\u00a0 Which, generally speaking, would be a good thing.\u00c2\u00a0 That would seem to suggest that the original source for this image — Republican or conservative activist — is viewing themselves and his\/her movement as a Soviet, sharpening discipline, and calling out Obama, Pelosi, Holder, Napolitano, Rangel, Reid, Frank, and Dodd as “Enemies of the People”.<\/p>\n

Or is s\/he implying that the eight headed Soviet Politboro of Obama, Pelosi, Holder, Napolitano, Rangel, Reid, Frank, and Dodd are listing out the “Enemies of the People”?\u00c2\u00a0 I guess that would make some sense — but I’m pretty sure I’m supposed to double back to thinking of them as the “Enemies of the People”, which leads to perhaps a commentary about the double-edged sword — we become the enemy we fight — <\/em>or something about projection — or perhaps a statement that we choose sides and really only have one choice because both sides are the same.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I linked to a page and pointed out this banner in my last post, but these things will be wasted unless I point to it a bit further. Huh? What does this mean?\u00c2\u00a0 This thing is confusing to me.\u00c2\u00a0 When I hear the phrase “Enemies of the People”, I think of the Soviet Union’s dissidents.\u00c2\u00a0 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5200"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5200\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5201,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5200\/revisions\/5201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}