{"id":18529,"date":"2011-03-03T06:00:49","date_gmt":"2011-03-03T12:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=18529"},"modified":"2011-03-02T16:01:35","modified_gmt":"2011-03-02T22:01:35","slug":"demented","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=18529","title":{"rendered":"Demented"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ann Althouse notes that <a href=\"http:\/\/althouse.blogspot.com\/2011\/03\/wisconsin-protesters-are-losing-their.html\">some of the protesters are starting to lose it<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I see some people descending into irrationality \u2014 beginning to form a cultish mentality that demonizes outsiders. Meade was at a demonstration, photographing it. A demonstration is \u2014 to a clear-thinking person \u2014 a collection of people asking to be seen, wanting to be photographed. Yet when they perceive that Meade isn&#8217;t one of them they flip \u2014 it&#8217;s a Flip camera \u2014 into fear. Meade had been trying to talk to them rationally about why the pro-Walker woman might not want to debate her ideas in that setting, and instead of seeing Meade as a citizen who&#8217;s finding out what&#8217;s going on and helping 2 women who are surrounded and outnumbered, they spread their &#8220;plant&#8221; theory. And it&#8217;s not just a theory. They know he&#8217;s a plant.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Context?\u00a0 Sure &#8211; read the piece.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ann Althouse notes that some of the protesters are starting to lose it: I see some people descending into irrationality \u2014 beginning to form a cultish mentality that demonizes outsiders. Meade was at a demonstration, photographing it. A demonstration is \u2014 to a clear-thinking person \u2014 a collection of people asking to be seen, wanting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,51,129],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-days-of-adolescent-rage","category-liberal-tyranny","category-unions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18529"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18529\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18531,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18529\/revisions\/18531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}