{"id":2518,"date":"2018-04-03T10:24:05","date_gmt":"2018-04-03T14:24:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/?p=2518"},"modified":"2018-04-03T10:24:05","modified_gmt":"2018-04-03T14:24:05","slug":"the-zman-chronicles-the-lefts-descent-into-incivility-and-madness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/index.php\/2018\/04\/03\/the-zman-chronicles-the-lefts-descent-into-incivility-and-madness\/","title":{"rendered":"The ZMan Chronicles the Left&#8217;s Descent into Incivility and Madness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The ZMan walks us through his memory of how we got from a country with a civil Left\/Right dialog to the 24\/7\/365 drive-by guerilla warfare that is &#8220;dialog&#8221; in today&#8217;s America.\u00a0 Well it brings to mind for me <a href=\"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/index.php\/2018\/03\/23\/23mar2018-quote-of-the-day\/\">Thucydides&#8217; description of the Corcyrean Civil \/war and its bloody aftermath<\/a>.\u00a0 But honestly, I think the only reason that the left was ever civil was that they were out of power.\u00a0 Once the Clintons got their claws on power it was game over for civility.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"QWuuR5RLvt\"><p><a href=\"http:\/\/thezman.com\/wordpress\/?p=13384\">Prince Rupert&#8217;s Revenge<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" src=\"http:\/\/thezman.com\/wordpress\/?p=13384&#038;embed=true#?secret=QWuuR5RLvt\" data-secret=\"QWuuR5RLvt\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" title=\"&#8220;Prince Rupert&#8217;s Revenge&#8221; &#8212; The Z Blog\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The ZMan walks us through his memory of how we got from a country with a civil Left\/Right dialog to the 24\/7\/365 drive-by guerilla warfare<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,245,237],"tags":[183,218],"class_list":["post-2518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-events","category-review-of-article","category-reviews","tag-leftist-nitwits","tag-z-man"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.4 - 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