{"id":40944,"date":"2014-01-03T12:20:40","date_gmt":"2014-01-03T18:20:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=40944"},"modified":"2014-01-03T13:37:32","modified_gmt":"2014-01-03T19:37:32","slug":"the-thing-about-obama-supporters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=40944","title":{"rendered":"The Thing About Obama Supporters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You go into these tastefully-appointed homes in Crocus Hill and Highland Park, and, like a lot of comfy urban-but-not-too-urban neighborhoods full of college-educated middle-aged academics and non-profiteers and mid-to-upper-level government and institutional employees, the sense of their historical invincibility has been gone now for 2-3 years and nothing\u2019s replaced it. And they felt invincible, like a historically-deterministic event, through the Clinton administration, and the Bush administration, and each <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/blogs\/bensmith\/0408\/Obama_on_smalltown_PA_Clinging_religion_guns_xenophobia.html\">successive administration <\/a>has said that somehow these communities are gonna achieve the utopia that their entire education said they would, and they have not.<\/p>\n<p>And it\u2019s not surprising then they get bitter, they cling to rote activism or Volvos\u00a0or blind ideology or antipathy toward people who aren\u2019t like them or their posh education or anti-faith sentiment or anti-White-Republican-Male-Clich\u00e9 sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You go into these tastefully-appointed homes in Crocus Hill and Highland Park, and, like a lot of comfy urban-but-not-too-urban neighborhoods full of college-educated middle-aged academics and non-profiteers and mid-to-upper-level government and institutional employees, the sense of their historical invincibility has been gone now for 2-3 years and nothing\u2019s replaced it. And they felt invincible, like [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-democrats","category-president-obama"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40944","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=40944"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40944\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40960,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40944\/revisions\/40960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}