{"id":75408,"date":"2020-09-22T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-09-22T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=75408"},"modified":"2020-09-22T10:10:47","modified_gmt":"2020-09-22T15:10:47","slug":"look-into-the-gaslight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=75408","title":{"rendered":"Look Into The Gaslight"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>During the Bush years, as many as a third of Democrats had some level of belief that 9\/11 was an inside job.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Today, a significant number &#8211; on social media, it looks like a supermajority &#8211; believe that Trump colluded with Russia, that Kavanaugh raped someone, that &#8220;white supremacists&#8221; started the riots, that &#8220;Anti&#8221;-fa is anti-fascist, that Ruth Bader Ginsburg&#8217;s purported &#8220;dying wish&#8221; should have some legal merit and that the Electoral College disenfranchises them. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Which is why <a href=\"https:\/\/www.startribune.com\/qanon-on-the-ballot-six-gop-endors\">we&#8217;re seeing this sort of &#8220;journalism&#8221;<\/a>, doubtlessly placed by a Democrat attack-PR firm, about a movement whose adherence among the GOP is likely in low single digits. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yep &#8211; it&#8217;s Berg&#8217;s 7th Law, <em>and <\/em>Urban Progressive Privilege &#8211; a gaslighting twofer!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During the Bush years, as many as a third of Democrats had some level of belief that 9\/11 was an inside job. Today, a significant number &#8211; on social media, it looks like a supermajority &#8211; believe that Trump colluded with Russia, that Kavanaugh raped someone, that &#8220;white supremacists&#8221; started the riots, that &#8220;Anti&#8221;-fa is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,51,349],"tags":[243],"class_list":["post-75408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tc-media-bias","category-liberal-tyranny","category-urban-liberal-privilege-liberal-tyranny","tag-bergs-7th-law"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75408","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=75408"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75408\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75409,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75408\/revisions\/75409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}