{"id":37250,"date":"2023-03-14T15:29:25","date_gmt":"2023-03-14T20:29:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dangerousintersection.org\/?p=37250"},"modified":"2023-03-14T15:29:25","modified_gmt":"2023-03-14T20:29:25","slug":"cowardly-authoritarians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dangerousintersection.org\/2023\/03\/14\/cowardly-authoritarians\/","title":{"rendered":"Cowardly Authoritarians"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the U.S., we have cowardly authoritarians. They pervert language in order to corrupt our ability to communicate with and disagree with each other. They use gilded, ruthless and insidious power to create the false consensus, making people with sincere objections disappear.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ggreenwald\/status\/1635677565728817154\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-37251\" src=\"http:\/\/dangerousintersection.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Screenshot-2023-03-14-at-3.10.24-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1034\" height=\"1276\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dangerousintersection.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Screenshot-2023-03-14-at-3.10.24-PM.png 1034w, https:\/\/dangerousintersection.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Screenshot-2023-03-14-at-3.10.24-PM-243x300.png 243w, https:\/\/dangerousintersection.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Screenshot-2023-03-14-at-3.10.24-PM-830x1024.png 830w, https:\/\/dangerousintersection.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Screenshot-2023-03-14-at-3.10.24-PM-768x948.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1034px) 100vw, 1034px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the U.S., we have cowardly authoritarians. They pervert language in order to corrupt our ability to communicate with and disagree with each other.  They use gilded, ruthless and insidious power to create the false consensus, making people with sincere objections disappear, trampling on free speech and, often, on our First Amendment.<\/p>\n<p>\n<P><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ggreenwald\/status\/1635677565728817154\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/dangerousintersection.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Screenshot-2023-03-14-at-3.10.24-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1034\" height=\"1276\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-37251\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dangerousintersection.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Screenshot-2023-03-14-at-3.10.24-PM.png 1034w, https:\/\/dangerousintersection.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Screenshot-2023-03-14-at-3.10.24-PM-243x300.png 243w, https:\/\/dangerousintersection.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Screenshot-2023-03-14-at-3.10.24-PM-830x1024.png 830w, https:\/\/dangerousintersection.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Screenshot-2023-03-14-at-3.10.24-PM-768x948.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1034px) 100vw, 1034px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6562,56,31,6511,3221,6610],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cancel-culture","category-censorship","category-communication","category-debate","category-first-amendment","category-free-speech","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dangerousintersection.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dangerousintersection.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dangerousintersection.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dangerousintersection.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/46"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dangerousintersection.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37250"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dangerousintersection.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37250\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37252,"href":"https:\/\/dangerousintersection.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37250\/revisions\/37252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dangerousintersection.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dangerousintersection.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dangerousintersection.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}