Well done indeed<\/a>. \u00a0Isn\u2019t it odd how someone makes news by simply stating what, a few decades ago, would have been common sense? \u00a0Is that how far we\u2019ve come? \u00a0One of the benefits liberalism has is its hammerlock on the informational institutions of our culture. \u00a0With those, liberalism is able to convince 66% of Americans polled that squares are, in fact, round. \u00a0And then \u2013 and this is the funny part \u2013 when someone points out that circles, not squares, are round, it actually makes the news! \u00a0And on top of that, it is treated as if it\u2019s somehow \u201ccontroversial\u201d (a favorite media buzzword). \u00a0If it wasn\u2019t so sad that we see the disastrous results of it all, it would be quite funny.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Well done indeed. \u00a0Isn\u2019t it odd how someone makes news by simply stating what, a few decades ago, would have been common sense? \u00a0Is that how far we\u2019ve come? \u00a0One of the benefits liberalism has is its hammerlock on the informational institutions of our culture. \u00a0With those, liberalism is able to convince 66% of Americans […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2805,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n
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