{"id":52624,"date":"2015-04-13T12:00:35","date_gmt":"2015-04-13T17:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=52624"},"modified":"2015-04-12T21:27:46","modified_gmt":"2015-04-13T02:27:46","slug":"our-vapid-overlords","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=52624","title":{"rendered":"Our Vapid Overlords"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Let&#8217;s flash back:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?attachment_id=35213\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-35213\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-35213 alignright\" title=\"DaytonDustbowl\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/DaytonDustbowl.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"152\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>2012<\/strong>: \u00a0Heading for what looks like a tough mid-term, Governor <del>Messinger<\/del> Dayton promises he&#8217;ll lower property taxes for &#8220;middle class Minnesotans&#8221;&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;many of whom seem blissfully, gullibly unaware that the state government has <a title=\"Chanting Points Memo: \u201cThe DFL Cuts Property Taxes!\u201d\" href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=36653\">absolutely nothing to do with property taxes<\/a>, which are levied by county commissions and school districts. \u00a0Oh, the state increased &#8220;Local Government Aid&#8221; (mostly to Minneapolis and Saint Paul) &#8211; but for a majority of Minnesotans, property taxes increased, promise notwithstanding.<\/p>\n<p><strong>2015<\/strong>: \u00a0Governor <del>Flint-Smith<\/del> Dayton pr<a href=\"http:\/\/minnesota.cbslocal.com\/2015\/03\/31\/dayton-calls-for-statewide-plan-to-synchronize-traffic-lights\/\">omises to work to synchronize traffic lights<\/a> throughout Minnesota.<\/p>\n<p>Notwithstanding the fact that the timing of traffic lights is controlled entirely by local public works departments, and it&#8217;s not a promise Governor <del>Flint-Smith<\/del> Dayton can deliver on. \u00a0Ever.<\/p>\n<p>But smart people already know this.<\/p>\n<p>Which says exactly what about the DFL&#8217;s audience? \u00a0 And about what they think about our state&#8217;s voters?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let&#8217;s flash back: 2012: \u00a0Heading for what looks like a tough mid-term, Governor Messinger Dayton promises he&#8217;ll lower property taxes for &#8220;middle class Minnesotans&#8221;&#8230; &#8230;many of whom seem blissfully, gullibly unaware that the state government has absolutely nothing to do with property taxes, which are levied by county commissions and school districts. \u00a0Oh, the state [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[117],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dayton-dustbowl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52624","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=52624"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52624\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52639,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52624\/revisions\/52639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}