{"id":62071,"date":"2017-02-08T11:00:49","date_gmt":"2017-02-08T17:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=62071"},"modified":"2017-02-07T10:47:14","modified_gmt":"2017-02-07T16:47:14","slug":"unjustified-self-esteem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=62071","title":{"rendered":"Unjustified Self-Esteem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Conor Friedersdorf in the LATimes <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/opinion\/op-ed\/la-oe-friedersdorf-calexit-unprogressive-20170129-story.html\">writes a piece opposing &#8220;Calexit&#8221; <\/a>&#8211; the proposed secession of California from the union.<\/p>\n<p>Say what you will about the merits or problems with this idea &#8211; it&#8217;d remove the biggest single glob of &#8220;progressives&#8221; from the voter roles, and one of the most toxic gobs of unreformed pension debt from the future&#8217;s federal budget, both of which are huge wins.<\/p>\n<p>But let&#8217;s not focus on the pros and cons of Calexit. \u00a0Let&#8217;s focus instead, for the moment, on this paragraph from Friedersdorf:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Secession would not improve our values. But it would practically ensure that the rest of the U.S. would drift farther away from our laid-back tolerance and easygoing diversity<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Laid-back tolerance:<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 488px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thestar.com\/content\/dam\/thestar\/news\/world\/2017\/02\/01\/violent-protests-force-cancellation-of-speech-by-milo-yiannopoulos-at-uc-berkeley\/uc-berkeley-protest.jpg\" width=\"478\" height=\"330\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">&#8220;Laid-back tolerance&#8221; &#8211; Berkeley welcomes gay immigrant Milo Yiannopolous.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Easygoing diversity:<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 509px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.headlinepolitics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/image-117.jpeg\" width=\"499\" height=\"286\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Easygoing diversity in action.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Do whatever you want, California &#8211; the US will in fact be better off without you all.<\/p>\n<p>But try looking at yourself through the eyes of sane non-narcissists for a while. \u00a0You might learn something.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Conor Friedersdorf in the LATimes writes a piece opposing &#8220;Calexit&#8221; &#8211; the proposed secession of California from the union. Say what you will about the merits or problems with this idea &#8211; it&#8217;d remove the biggest single glob of &#8220;progressives&#8221; from the voter roles, and one of the most toxic gobs of unreformed pension debt [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51,349],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberal-tyranny","category-urban-liberal-privilege-liberal-tyranny"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62071","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=62071"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62071\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62072,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62071\/revisions\/62072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}