{"id":56442,"date":"2015-12-03T05:00:35","date_gmt":"2015-12-03T11:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=56442"},"modified":"2015-12-01T19:09:57","modified_gmt":"2015-12-02T01:09:57","slug":"the-ballot-cult","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=56442","title":{"rendered":"The Ballot Cult"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Pacific Island cargo cultists, who believe that if they create the shape of an airplane, other airplanes will come, and American GIs will resume bringing them cigarettes and chocolate and good steel knives.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/assets.atlasobscura.com\/media\/W1siZiIsInVwbG9hZHMvcGxhY2VfaW1hZ2VzL2NhcmdvMy5qcGciXSxbInAiLCJ0aHVtYiIsIjk4MHhcdTAwM2UiXSxbInAiLCJjb252ZXJ0IiwiLXF1YWxpdHkgOTEgLWF1dG8tb3JpZW50Il1d\/cargo3.jpg\/image.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"256\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Liberals think if they create the shape of a ballot box \u2013 the bigger the better \u2013 democracy will come and it will create a prosperous society that can afford cigarettes, chocolate and good steel knives. \u00a0But Cuba has elections and so does North Korea, neither of which are democracies or prosperous.\u00a0 And if Liberals get their way with voter ID laws, neither will America.<\/p>\n<p>Joe Doakes<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Much of liberalism &#8211; really, any politics designed to boil the universe down to simple changes and slogans and wants and needs &#8211; basically is the equivalent<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: Pacific Island cargo cultists, who believe that if they create the shape of an airplane, other airplanes will come, and American GIs will resume bringing them cigarettes and chocolate and good steel knives. Liberals think if they create the shape of a ballot box \u2013 the bigger the better [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56442","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=56442"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56442\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56443,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56442\/revisions\/56443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}