{"id":33079,"date":"2013-01-02T12:05:15","date_gmt":"2013-01-02T18:05:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=33079"},"modified":"2014-04-28T11:56:04","modified_gmt":"2014-04-28T16:56:04","slug":"manifesto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=33079","title":{"rendered":"Risk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kevin Williamson <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/articles\/336481\/risk-relativism-and-resources-kevin-d-williamson?pg=1\">brilliantly sums up why people vote as they do<\/a>, and what conservatism needs to do to have\u00a0conservatism\u00a0reach people.<\/p>\n<p>To sum it up absurdly briefly: different ethnic, gender and social groups have different tolerances for risk; people with higher risk tolerances tend to vote conservative; ironically, &#8220;progressivism&#8221; is riskier in the long term. \u00a0Convincing them is the hard part. \u00a0What do you have better to do?<\/p>\n<p>At various points in reading it &#8211; it&#8217;s 6,000 words &#8211; I thought about doing a couple of pull-quotes a day for two weeks. \u00a0I may do that still. \u00a0It is that good &#8211; and by &#8220;good&#8221;, I mean &#8220;very, very thought-provoking about what motivates people to vote conservative or &#8220;progressive&#8221;&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Read the whole thing when you get some time to spare.<\/p>\n<p>UPDATE: \u00a0Mr. Williamson will be joining me on the Northern Alliance Radio Network on January 12. \u00a0Hope you can tune in. \u00a0This oughtta be good.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kevin Williamson brilliantly sums up why people vote as they do, and what conservatism needs to do to have\u00a0conservatism\u00a0reach people. To sum it up absurdly briefly: different ethnic, gender and social groups have different tolerances for risk; people with higher risk tolerances tend to vote conservative; ironically, &#8220;progressivism&#8221; is riskier in the long term. \u00a0Convincing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[289],"class_list":["post-33079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conservatism","tag-kevin-williamson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33079","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=33079"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33079\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33096,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33079\/revisions\/33096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}