{"id":1516,"date":"2007-09-24T17:48:20","date_gmt":"2007-09-24T17:48:20","guid":{"rendered":"0"},"modified":"2007-09-28T16:49:51","modified_gmt":"2007-09-28T16:49:51","slug":"the_left_speaks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/?p=1516","title":{"rendered":"The Left Speaks Up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Check out <a href=\"http:\/\/hurryupharry.bloghouse.net\/archives\/2007\/09\/24\/euston_manifesto_winning_the_framing_war_vs_islamism.php\" target=\"browser\">the talk by Alan Johnson<\/a> (UK <strike>Labor politician, trade union leader, and contender for the PM role w\/Gordon Brown<\/strike> <i>professor and editor<\/i>) over at Harry&#8217;s Place.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>Our children are going to need to live in a combative democracy in which the mass media and the political and intellectual class are comfortable with the proactive defence of the liberal constitutional order and the open society.<\/p>\n<p>\nBeing \u00e2\u20ac\u02dccomfortable\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 for us in the UK means two things, I think.<\/p>\n<p>\nFirst, having the will and the resolution to promote that order and that society as non-negotiable normative ends. So enough with the apologetics for them and the self-hatred for us.<\/p>\n<p>\nSecond, understand that when we wage the battle of ideas and defend our way of life we must live up to the highest ideals of our democratic inheritance. We must honour the memory of those who fought and died for it. And are dying for it. So enough with rendition, ghost sites and torture.<\/p>\n<p>\nLet\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s pass our democracy on to our children, but let\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s make sure its one they feel such pride in that they will defend it in turn. <\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Interesting, good stuff, with concrete suggestions for UK policy. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UK left politician speaks out on concrete steps to take in the conflict w\/Islamists&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1516"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1516\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}