{"id":68493,"date":"2018-11-08T06:00:29","date_gmt":"2018-11-08T12:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=68493"},"modified":"2018-11-07T18:51:43","modified_gmt":"2018-11-08T00:51:43","slug":"buyers-remorse-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=68493","title":{"rendered":"Buyer&#8217;s Remorse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rachel Packer at\u00a0<em>Marie Claire\u00a0<\/em>tells us that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marieclaire.com\/politics\/a24678674\/trump-america-adoption\/\">Trump makes her regret adopting her Chinese daughters:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"body-text\">But now I worry that we made a tragic mistake.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text\">I pulled those two beautiful babies away from a\u00a0<a class=\"body-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/business-45948692\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-vars-ga-outbound-link=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/business-45948692\">rising power\u00a0<\/a>and into a\u00a0<a class=\"body-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/magazine\/archive\/2018\/03\/america-is-not-a-democracy\/550931\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-vars-ga-outbound-link=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/magazine\/archive\/2018\/03\/america-is-not-a-democracy\/550931\/\">damaged democracy.<\/a>\u00a0I brought two girls of color into a society where it\u2019s clear that their word and their bodies are worth less than a man\u2019s\u2014and where\u00a0<a class=\"body-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2018\/11\/04\/opinions\/trump-whip-up-browning-of-america-obeidallah\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-vars-ga-outbound-link=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2018\/11\/04\/opinions\/trump-whip-up-browning-of-america-obeidallah\/index.html\">open, overt racism<\/a>\u00a0has become even\u00a0<a class=\"body-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ohchr.org\/EN\/NewsEvents\/Pages\/DisplayNews.aspx?NewsID=21975\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-vars-ga-outbound-link=\"https:\/\/www.ohchr.org\/EN\/NewsEvents\/Pages\/DisplayNews.aspx?NewsID=21975\">more likely<\/a>\u00a0now than it was a decade ago. And unfortunately, my worries aren\u2019t exactly tinfoil-hat-wearing paranoia.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>After which she carries on with a couple column-feet of tinfoil-hat-wearing paranoia and unhinged virtue-signaling.<\/p>\n<p>I bring this up not so much to castigate Ms. Packer&#8217;s dubious grasp of reality, but to illustrate what seems to matter to liberals; freedom from want, from cognitive dissonance, from opposition, rather than, well, freedom.<\/p>\n<p>Lord, I hope those girls grow up to be conservatives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rachel Packer at\u00a0Marie Claire\u00a0tells us that Trump makes her regret adopting her Chinese daughters: But now I worry that we made a tragic mistake. I pulled those two beautiful babies away from a\u00a0rising power\u00a0and into a\u00a0damaged democracy.\u00a0I brought two girls of color into a society where it\u2019s clear that their word and their bodies are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[349],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-urban-liberal-privilege-liberal-tyranny"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68493","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=68493"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68493\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68495,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68493\/revisions\/68495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}