{"id":68055,"date":"2018-09-26T11:00:06","date_gmt":"2018-09-26T16:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=68055"},"modified":"2019-02-08T06:05:45","modified_gmt":"2019-02-08T12:05:45","slug":"the-rush-to-mediocrity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=68055","title":{"rendered":"The Rush To Mediocrity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The likes of Bernie Sanders, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and most of the MInnesota DFL genuflect toward the Europeans for their economic advice.<\/p>\n<p>Inconvenient fact:\u00a0 all of Europe&#8217;s economies <a href=\"https:\/\/fee.org\/articles\/most-of-europe-is-a-lot-poorer-than-most-of-the-united-states\/?utm_content=76632080&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=facebook\">would fit tidily within the bottom third of US states<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>Most European countries (including Germany, Sweden, Denmark and Belgium) if they joined the US, would rank among the poorest one-third of US states on a per-capita GDP basis, and the UK, France, Japan and New Zealand would all rank among America\u2019s very poorest states, below No. 47 West Virginia, and not too far above No. 50 Mississippi. Countries like Italy, S. Korea, Spain, Portugal and Greece would each rank below Mississippi as the poorest states in the country.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/fee.org\/media\/14213\/statesgdpnew-1.png?width=100%&amp;height=auto\" width=\"863\" height=\"954\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Maybe they all need to go to war with us again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The likes of Bernie Sanders, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and most of the MInnesota DFL genuflect toward the Europeans for their economic advice. Inconvenient fact:\u00a0 all of Europe&#8217;s economies would fit tidily within the bottom third of US states: Most European countries (including Germany, Sweden, Denmark and Belgium) if they joined the US, would rank among the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[68],"tags":[406],"class_list":["post-68055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-capitalism-v-socialism","tag-tide-pod-evita"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68055","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=68055"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68055\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68071,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68055\/revisions\/68071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}