{"id":73186,"date":"2020-01-29T05:00:42","date_gmt":"2020-01-29T11:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=73186"},"modified":"2020-01-28T14:09:59","modified_gmt":"2020-01-28T20:09:59","slug":"this-is-our-governing-class","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=73186","title":{"rendered":"This Is Our Governing Class"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>There are only two real explantions for the DFL&#8217;s messaging on most issues &#8211; especially, but hardly limited to, 2nd Amendment issues:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Either:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>They are not especially bright<\/li><li>They are counting on their audience not being especially bright.  <\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Submitted for your review &#8211; a tweet, from yesterday, from Senator Matt Little, one of the suburban legislators that swept into office  in the &#8217;18 mid-terms:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-twitter wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Politician: Requiring an ID will stop ineligible people from voting.<br><br>Same Politician: Requiring an ID will not stop ineligible people from purchasing a gun. Criminals won&#39;t follow the law.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/mnleg?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#mnleg<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Matt Little (@LittleCongress) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LittleCongress\/status\/1222224249013854208?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 28, 2020<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>So there&#8217;s the conundrum:  do we assume that Matt Little actually believes that the polling station works the same as a black-market gun deal? <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If he did, it&#8217;d explain a lot about the DFL&#8217;s depravity on election integrity, now that I think about it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But no, seriously &#8211; does he <em>believe <\/em>that?  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Or is his audience a class of people who <em>just don&#8217;t think that hard<\/em>?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are only two real explantions for the DFL&#8217;s messaging on most issues &#8211; especially, but hardly limited to, 2nd Amendment issues: Either: They are not especially bright They are counting on their audience not being especially bright. Submitted for your review &#8211; a tweet, from yesterday, from Senator Matt Little, one of the suburban [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[320,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mndfl","category-victim-disarmament"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73186","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=73186"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73186\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73187,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73186\/revisions\/73187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}