{"id":1322,"date":"2008-10-29T03:15:20","date_gmt":"2008-10-29T08:15:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/2parse.com\/?p=1322"},"modified":"2008-10-28T13:06:37","modified_gmt":"2008-10-28T18:06:37","slug":"the-legitimacy-of-the-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/?p=1322","title":{"rendered":"The Legitimacy of the State"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/freedomdemocrats.org\/node\/3132\">ka1igu1a over at the Freedom Democrats<\/a> makes the obvious point in response to the hysteria arising over the Redistributionist:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>If you accept the legitimacy of the State, then you necessarily accept the legitimacy of income\/wealth distribution.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Of course, ka1igu1a opposes the legitimacy of the State. But he nicely evicerates McCain&#8217;s attempts to play up this non-issue by pointing out the obvious.<\/p>\n<p>McCain doesn&#8217;t oppose the legitimacy of the State &#8211; he just adopts rhetoric and attitudes to win votes creating an ideological muddle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ka1igu1a over at the Freedom Democrats makes the obvious point in response to the hysteria arising over the Redistributionist: If you accept the legitimacy of the State, then you necessarily accept the legitimacy of income\/wealth distribution. Of course, ka1igu1a opposes the legitimacy of the State. But he nicely evicerates McCain&#8217;s attempts to play up this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[544,22,42,4],"tags":[917,918],"class_list":["post-1322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-election-2008","category-libertarianism","category-politics","tag-freedom-democrats","tag-ka1igu1a"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8qcx-lk","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1322","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1322"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1322\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1326,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1322\/revisions\/1326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}