{"id":8099,"date":"2010-12-18T19:40:58","date_gmt":"2010-12-19T00:40:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=8099"},"modified":"2010-12-18T19:40:58","modified_gmt":"2010-12-19T00:40:58","slug":"political-labels-are-an-act-of-civic-candor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/8099\/political-labels-are-an-act-of-civic-candor\/","title":{"rendered":"Political Labels are an Act of Civic Candor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>No one is better than George Will at puncturing the self-serving equilibrium of excessive political correctness.\u00a0 His <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2010\/12\/17\/AR2010121704195.html?hpid=opinionsbox1\" target=\"_blank\">most recent column<\/a> is no exception.\u00a0 Taking aim at a confab calling itself \u201cNo Labels\u201d and for an end to partisanship, Will fires back with this defense of partisanship:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>No Labels, its earnestness subverting its grammar, says: &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/nolabels.org\/about-us\/talking-points\/\">We do not ask any political leader to ever give up their label<\/a> &#8211; merely put it aside.&#8221; But adopting a political label should be an act of civic candor. When people label themselves conservatives or liberals we can reasonably surmise where they stand concerning important matters, such as Hudson&#8217;s ruling. The label &#8220;conservative&#8221; conveys much useful information about people who adopt it. So does the label &#8220;liberal,&#8221; which is why most liberals have abandoned it, preferring &#8220;progressive,&#8221; until they discredit it, too.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>For the entire column, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2010\/12\/17\/AR2010121704195.html?hpid=opinionsbox1\" target=\"_blank\">click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No one is better than George Will at puncturing the self-serving equilibrium of excessive political correctness.\u00a0 His most recent column is no exception.\u00a0 Taking aim at a confab calling itself \u201cNo Labels\u201d and for an end to partisanship, Will fires back with this defense of partisanship: No Labels, its earnestness subverting its grammar, says: &#8220;We [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1501,2206,2207],"class_list":["post-8099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-george-will","tag-no-labels","tag-partisanship"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8099","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8099"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8099\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8102,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8099\/revisions\/8102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}