{"id":36244,"date":"2018-08-19T01:00:25","date_gmt":"2018-08-19T05:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=36244"},"modified":"2018-07-29T10:09:05","modified_gmt":"2018-07-29T14:09:05","slug":"qotd-a-unified-theory-of-left-wing-causes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2018\/08\/19\/qotd-a-unified-theory-of-left-wing-causes\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: A unified theory of left-wing causes"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Isn\u2019t it interesting that no matter what the current global crisis is, according to leftists, the solution is always the same: a benevolent world dictatorship of the enlightened elite, and mass transfer of wealth from rich nations to poor nations.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s what they want to do about global warming. It\u2019s what they wanted to do about overpopulation. It\u2019s what they wanted to do about endangered species.<\/p>\n<p>Steven den Beste, commenting on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.powerlineblog.com\/archives\/2011\/10\/a-unified-theory-of-left-wing-causes.php\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Population Bomb Epic Fail&#8221; by Steven Hayward<\/a>, 2011-10-29.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Isn\u2019t it interesting that no matter what the current global crisis is, according to leftists, the solution is always the same: a benevolent world dictatorship of the enlightened elite, and mass transfer of wealth from rich nations to poor nations. That\u2019s what they want to do about global warming. It\u2019s what they wanted to do [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"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":[57,53,41],"tags":[245,240,309,463],"class_list":["post-36244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humour","category-politics","category-quotations","tag-climatechange","tag-globalwarming","tag-overpopulation","tag-parody"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-9qA","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36244"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36244\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36245,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36244\/revisions\/36245"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}