{"id":1571,"date":"2004-07-18T09:09:04","date_gmt":"2004-07-18T16:09:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/8stars.org\/aa\/2004\/07\/18\/who-hates-what\/"},"modified":"2004-07-18T09:09:04","modified_gmt":"2004-07-18T16:09:04","slug":"who-hates-what","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/8stars.org\/a\/2004\/07\/18\/who-hates-what\/","title":{"rendered":"Who hates what?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It has almost gotten to be a joke: a progressive criticizes G.W or one of his policies, and a conservative fires back &#8220;Why do you hate America.&#8221; (It&#8217;s gotten to the point where it may be more likely to be another progressive asking the accusatory question, except in jest.)<\/p>\n<p>This is a neat trick for changing the terms of the debate&#8211;rather than answering the criticism, you put the critic on the defensive by questioning his patriotism&#8211;but it is also evidence of a kind of dangerous <i>L&#8217;\u00c3\u00a9tat, c&#8217;est moi<\/i>, or more accurately, <i>L&#8217;\u00c3\u00a9tat, c&#8217;est lui<\/i> kind of thinking, which I thought went out of fashion with Louis XIV. Who knew the Republicans were such Francophiles?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It has almost gotten to be a joke: a progressive criticizes G.W or one of his policies, and a conservative fires back &#8220;Why do you hate America.&#8221; (It&#8217;s gotten to the point where it may be more likely to be another progressive asking the accusatory question, except in jest.) 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