{"id":4577,"date":"2010-12-22T16:18:35","date_gmt":"2010-12-22T20:18:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/?p=4577"},"modified":"2010-12-22T16:18:35","modified_gmt":"2010-12-22T20:18:35","slug":"the-socialist-plot-to-make-you-eat-your-veggies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2010\/12\/22\/the-socialist-plot-to-make-you-eat-your-veggies\/","title":{"rendered":"The Socialist Plot to Make You Eat Your Veggies"},"content":{"rendered":"

Pay attention, people<\/a>:<\/p>\n

The vegetables are coming, my friends. Green, gassy, fibrous vegetables. They aren’t buttered. Or salted. And this time, they mean business.<\/p>\n

Last week,\u00c2\u00a0flush with his victory<\/a> in a lawsuit challenging the president’s health care initiative,\u00c2\u00a0Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli announced<\/a> gravely that “if we cross this line with health care now\u00e2\u20ac\u201dthis unconstitutional line\u00e2\u20ac\u201dwhere the government can force us to buy a private product and say it’s for our own good, then we’ll have given the government the power to force us to buy other products: cars, gym memberships, asparagus. The list goes on.” Broccoli? Belgian endive? The list indeed goes on.<\/p>\n

And it’s not just crazy Ken Cuccinelli being crazy Ken Cuccinelli, you know. \u00c2\u00a0Dahlia Lithwick goes on, illustrating the fear spreading across the entire conservative spectrum:<\/p>\n

Using the same logic, columnist\u00c2\u00a0George Will<\/a> conjured the dread specter of the state brandishing broccoli when he wrote at the start of this month that if congressional power to regulate interstate commerce “is infinitely elastic, Congress can do anything\u00e2\u20ac\u201deat your broccoli, or else\u00e2\u20ac\u201dand America no longer has a limited government.” Don’t think there’s anything that sinister about broccoli, friends?\u00c2\u00a0Think again.<\/a> That broccoli is just a front for the\u00c2\u00a0New World Order<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Think about it. If the asparagus and broccoli are really coming to knock down our doors and kidnap our children, can helicopters loaded with cauliflower really be that far behind? And what of the eggplant in night-vision goggles? If we’re soon to be governed by a totalitarian taxonomy of toxic greens, who\u00e2\u20ac\u201done wonders\u00e2\u20ac\u201dwill sound the warning against the tyrannical field peas?<\/p>\n

I, for one, welcome our fresh green overlords.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Pay attention, people: The vegetables are coming, my friends. Green, gassy, fibrous vegetables. They aren’t buttered. Or salted. And this time, they mean business. Last week,\u00c2\u00a0flush with his victory in a lawsuit challenging the president’s health care initiative,\u00c2\u00a0Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli announced gravely that “if we cross this line with health care now\u00e2\u20ac\u201dthis unconstitutional […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4577"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4577\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4578,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4577\/revisions\/4578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}