{"id":1075580,"date":"2023-06-09T05:07:52","date_gmt":"2023-06-09T05:07:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/?p=285433"},"modified":"2023-06-09T05:07:52","modified_gmt":"2023-06-09T05:07:52","slug":"love-of-freedom-defines-the-political-left-not-the-right-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2023\/06\/09\/love-of-freedom-defines-the-political-left-not-the-right-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Love of Freedom Defines the Political Left, Not the Right"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Political discourse in the United States consists largely of lies and confusions. One of the greatest of lies and confusions, which I hope to help dispel in this article, is the common delimitation of the very concepts \u201cleft\u201d and \u201cright\u201d: it is claimed that to be on the right is to value freedom above all\u2014this  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2023\/06\/09\/love-of-freedom-defines-the-political-left-not-the-right\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2023\/06\/09\/love-of-freedom-defines-the-political-left-not-the-right\/\">Love of Freedom Defines the Political Left, Not the Right<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\"><br>\r\nThis content originally appeared on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2023\/06\/09\/love-of-freedom-defines-the-political-left-not-the-right\/\" >CounterPunch.org<\/a> and was authored by Chris Wright.  <br><\/p>\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.radiofree.org\/2023\/06\/09\/love-of-freedom-defines-the-political-left-not-the-right-2\/\">Radio Free<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Political discourse in the United States consists largely of lies and confusions. One of the greatest of lies and confusions, which I hope to help dispel in this article, is the common delimitation of the very concepts \u201cleft\u201d and \u201cright\u201d: it is claimed&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3831,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,228,60234,770,3105,8157,42652,4800,5748,27150,42603],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1075580"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3831"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1075580"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1075580\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1075581,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1075580\/revisions\/1075581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1075580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1075580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1075580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}