{"id":20268,"date":"2015-04-08T14:30:39","date_gmt":"2015-04-08T18:30:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=20268"},"modified":"2015-04-08T14:30:39","modified_gmt":"2015-04-08T18:30:39","slug":"the-special-snowflake-syndrome-of-american-conservatives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2015\/04\/08\/the-special-snowflake-syndrome-of-american-conservatives\/","title":{"rendered":"The &#8220;Special Snowflake&#8221; Syndrome of American Conservatives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The article <a title=\"The Daily Kos article\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/story\/2015\/04\/06\/1376057\/-The-Special-Snowflake-Syndrome-of-American-Conservatives?detail=email\" target=\"_blank\">The &#8220;Special Snowflake&#8221; Syndrome of American Conservatives<\/a> has been posted on <em>The DailyKos<\/em>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In other words, people still haven&#8217;t lost sight of the only sensible view of religious liberty there is: we should all be free to live according to our consciences, up until the moment that those consciences drive us to impose our beliefs on another person. In a world full of competing, often contradictory ideas, this is the only view of religious liberty that is feasible, or could possibly be evenly applied.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This &#8220;commonsense&#8221; attitude is eloquently explained in this article in a way that might make it more common.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The article The &#8220;Special Snowflake&#8221; Syndrome of American Conservatives has been posted on The DailyKos. In other words, people still haven&#8217;t lost sight of the only sensible view of religious liberty there is: we should all be free to live according to our consciences, up until the moment that those consciences drive us to impose [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-20268","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-stevegsposts","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20268"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20268\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20269,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20268\/revisions\/20269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}