{"id":59772,"date":"2016-08-01T07:00:17","date_gmt":"2016-08-01T12:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=59772"},"modified":"2016-07-29T08:09:00","modified_gmt":"2016-07-29T13:09:00","slug":"fear-itself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=59772","title":{"rendered":"Fear Itself"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I opened an email from MoveOn.Org the other day.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the header:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Screen-Shot-2016-07-29-at-8.02.47-AM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-59773\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Screen-Shot-2016-07-29-at-8.02.47-AM.png\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2016-07-29 at 8.02.47 AM\" width=\"217\" height=\"93\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I stopped right there and threw it in the trash.<\/p>\n<p>Robert Reich is &#8220;terrified&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Now, I&#8217;ll cop to is &#8211; I read this on the end of a two week big of liberal panic; of a social media feed clogged with liberal acquaintances overwrought with &#8220;fear&#8221; about the GOP candidate.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, as we noted the other day, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=59748\">this &#8220;fear&#8221; is something they&#8217;re painstakingly trained to have <\/a>by the people who call their collective shots. \u00a0\u00a0<em>Every\u00a0<\/em>Republican is, in succession, the worst human ever!<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s classic Berg&#8217;s Seventh Law; on the one hand, the left says conservatives, the right, and even Trump supporters (who are far from necessarily conservative) are motivated by &#8220;fear&#8221;; on the other, the most powerful voices on the left are trying to provoke and motivate people to feel&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;what, now? \u00a0I don&#8217;t wanna see all the same hands, here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I opened an email from MoveOn.Org the other day. Here&#8217;s the header: I stopped right there and threw it in the trash. Robert Reich is &#8220;terrified&#8221;. Now, I&#8217;ll cop to is &#8211; I read this on the end of a two week big of liberal panic; of a social media feed clogged with liberal acquaintances [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[327,321],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-big-activism","category-big-left"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59772","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=59772"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59772\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59774,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59772\/revisions\/59774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}