{"id":19938,"date":"2011-05-11T04:59:53","date_gmt":"2011-05-11T10:59:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=19938"},"modified":"2011-05-11T06:39:05","modified_gmt":"2011-05-11T12:39:05","slug":"19938","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=19938","title":{"rendered":"Idiocracy, 1789"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park writes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Two jerks yelling and waving signs about animal rights outside your store for half an hour, scaring away customers and reminding you they know where you live and where your family lives: protected by the First Amendment.<\/p>\n<p>A bunch of people yelling and waving signs protesting government gay rights policy outside your soldier-son\u2019s funeral: protected by the First Amendment.<\/p>\n<p>A mob of union thugs yelling and waving signs protesting economic policy outside your home while your kids are home alone: protected by the First Amendment.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, this is what Jefferson and Madison had in mind for a civilized society, I\u2019m certain of it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;m pretty sure Jefferson and Madison knew that democracy had a downside, and that it could withstand having one.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, I&#8217;m not sure they foresaw how stupid some Americans would get&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park writes: Two jerks yelling and waving signs about animal rights outside your store for half an hour, scaring away customers and reminding you they know where you live and where your family lives: protected by the First Amendment. A bunch of people yelling and waving signs protesting government gay rights [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberal-tyranny"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19938","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=19938"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19938\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19940,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19938\/revisions\/19940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}