{"id":58330,"date":"2016-04-13T07:00:05","date_gmt":"2016-04-13T12:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=58330"},"modified":"2016-04-11T13:07:02","modified_gmt":"2016-04-11T18:07:02","slug":"if-i-did-conspiracy-theories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=58330","title":{"rendered":"If I Did Conspiracy Theories&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;which I don&#8217;t, this one would jump out at me.<\/p>\n<p>For most of human history, abortion has been considered one variety of undesirable or another. \u00a0Then, two things happened: \u00a0First, Margaret Sanger ushered in the idea of using abortion as a Eugenic tool, to control the population of what Sanger and other eugenicists considered undesirable &#8211; especially black\u00a0people. \u00a0Second, abortion became a political litmus test on the left. \u00a0 \u00a0Result: \u00a0African-Americans vote overwhelmingly for a party whose primary civil sacrament is a procedure that has killed tens of millions of them (not to mention a &#8220;war on poverty&#8221; that has kept them disproportionally poor).<\/p>\n<p>In other words, the left are dedicated to killing black people, and they&#8217;ve talked black people into voting for them.<\/p>\n<p>So follow me, here.<\/p>\n<p>For most of human history, the social labor contract has been this: you work hard to learn a skill of sufficient value that someone is willing to pay you to do it (or, similarly, develop the skills to start a business that someone is willing to pay you to patronize), and you earn. \u00a0Then, two things happened: \u00a0the left developed another civil sacrament, the &#8220;Living Wage&#8221; &#8211; the idea that merely existing entitled one to a wage sufficient (so we&#8217;re told) for maintaining a lifestyle. \u00a0Second, technology developed the means to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brookings.edu\/blogs\/techtank\/posts\/2015\/09\/30-minimum-wage-and-automation\">cost-effectively supplant workers whose pay was statutorily higher than their value<\/a>. \u00a0 It&#8217;s nothing new, of course; industrial automation replaced a generation of guys who&#8217;d gotten high school diplomas and wandered into union jobs turning wrenches for middle-class incomes. \u00a0It happened on the assembly line, it&#8217;s going to happen at Burger King.<\/p>\n<p>In other words, the left is dedicated to policies that will make the poor even poorer. \u00a0Yet again.<\/p>\n<p>Whew. \u00a0It&#8217;s a good thing the education system is in such a mess, or people would start to see whats&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;oh. \u00a0Right.<\/p>\n<p>Never mind.<\/p>\n<p>(And yet Democrats jabber about places like Kansas and Wisconsin &#8220;voting against their interests&#8221;. \u00a0That&#8217;s always worth a laugh).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;which I don&#8217;t, this one would jump out at me. For most of human history, abortion has been considered one variety of undesirable or another. \u00a0Then, two things happened: \u00a0First, Margaret Sanger ushered in the idea of using abortion as a Eugenic tool, to control the population of what Sanger and other eugenicists considered undesirable [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,69],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-war","category-socialism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58330","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=58330"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58330\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58335,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58330\/revisions\/58335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}