{"id":65739,"date":"2018-01-22T07:00:04","date_gmt":"2018-01-22T13:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=65739"},"modified":"2018-01-19T06:37:20","modified_gmt":"2018-01-19T12:37:20","slug":"it-takes-an-elite-education-to-be-this-stupid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=65739","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;It Takes An Elite Education To Be This Stupid&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Failed former Minneapolis mayor Betsy Hodges has left the US, dodging the opprobrium from progressives outraged over what her mismanagement of Minneapolis did not only to the city, but to the reputation of American progressivism.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s not completely justice, but it&#8217;s a start&#8221; said Ramona Beel-Zebab, spokeswoman for The Association Of Progressive Associations&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>When last heard Hodges &#8230; was&#8230; was&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Oh, I can&#8217;t keep a straight face.<\/p>\n<p>No, Betsy Hodges isn&#8217;t running from her legacy.\u00a0 And good heavens, no, progs aren&#8217;t gut-checking their movement over the misery it&#8217;s caused.<\/p>\n<p>No, they&#8217;re making it part of the next generation&#8217;s playbook:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Harvard Institute of\u00a0<span class=\"vm-hook-outer vm-hook-default\"><span class=\"vm-hook\">Politics<\/span><\/span>\u00a0announced\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wcco.com\/tag\/betsy-hodges\">Betsy Hodges<\/a>\u00a0will be among its 2018 resident fellows.<\/p>\n<p>Her study group will focus on racial equality, policing and local governance.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Some of you may be asking &#8211; which half of this post is the parody?<\/p>\n<p>Betsy Hodges on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.startribune.com\/majority-of-black-minnesotans-believe-officers-should-have-been-charged-in-jamar-clark-shooting\/377895441\/\">Racial Equality<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p>Betsy Hodges on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.startribune.com\/as-year-s-end-violent-crime-up-in-minneapolis-for-fifth-straight-year\/363508991\/\">Policing<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p>Progressivism is about making poverty, racial division and inequity permanent bloody shirts to wave in society&#8217;s face.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Failed former Minneapolis mayor Betsy Hodges has left the US, dodging the opprobrium from progressives outraged over what her mismanagement of Minneapolis did not only to the city, but to the reputation of American progressivism. &#8220;It&#8217;s not completely justice, but it&#8217;s a start&#8221; said Ramona Beel-Zebab, spokeswoman for The Association Of Progressive Associations&#8221;. When last [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,309,51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-indoctrinate-u","category-liberal-tyranny"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65739","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=65739"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65739\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65740,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65739\/revisions\/65740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}