{"id":2318,"date":"2017-03-22T05:55:08","date_gmt":"2017-03-21T20:55:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/?p=2318"},"modified":"2017-07-06T17:46:20","modified_gmt":"2017-07-06T08:46:20","slug":"iconography-and-terminology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/iconography-and-terminology\/","title":{"rendered":"Iconography and Terminology"},"content":{"rendered":"

Our friend Dime brought up an interesting point in his post on Iconography<\/a> which has a parallel in terminology. Obama was very much a leader to his people (Alinskyites, Kenyans, Islamists, crackpots), whereas Trump is not regarded as a leader by those of us who nonetheless support him. The two sides have very different ideas of how government should run, what it should do, and how it should relate to society and the individual. Leftists want a leader — rightists want a representative.
\nWe like us some Trump because he is like us, because he literally represents us. \u00a0He is not better than we are, not smarter, not chosen except by we schlubs, and does not claim any right to lead an ignorant mass where it otherwise does not want to to go.
\nOne of the things that bothered me in debating leftist shills at Ricochet was the casual insult “leader” in many of those conversations. We were those who “followed Trump”, we bore abuse about our “leader”, as if we had somehow hitched our wagon to a strongman’s cause. It was either a deliberate attempt to belittle, or a complete lack of understanding the entire difference between the political goals of the right an of the left. Either way, it was damning.
\nMany of us are not interested in a secular messiah, a social leader, or a political solon. Trump the schlub will do just fine, thank you.<\/p>\n

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Our friend Dime brought up an interesting point in his post on Iconography<\/a> which has a parallel in terminology. Obama was very much a leader to his people (Alinskyites, Kenyans, Islamists, crackpots), whereas Trump is not regarded as a leader by those of us who nonetheless support him. The two sides have very different ideas of how government should run, what it should do, and how it should relate to society and the individual. Leftists want a leader — rightists want a representative.
We like us some Trump because he is like us, because he literally represents us. \u00a0He is not better than we are, not smarter, not chosen except by we schlubs, and does not claim any right to lead an ignorant mass where it … Continue reading → <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2318"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2318\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2325,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2318\/revisions\/2325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}