{"id":75558,"date":"2020-10-12T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-10-12T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=75558"},"modified":"2020-10-11T08:34:52","modified_gmt":"2020-10-11T13:34:52","slug":"strategery-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=75558","title":{"rendered":"Strategery"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I\/m farirly convinced &#8211; amost to the point of making up a new Berg&#8217;s Law &#8211; that the Democrat messaging strategy is as follows:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Assume that Democrat voters (as opposed to participants in their political class) are low-information voters who don&#8217;t really think all that critically<\/li><li>Message accordingly. <\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Exhibit NZA-212949993-6:<\/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\">Can we at least recognize that \u201cCourt Packing\u201d at all levels of the judiciary has been the Republican playbook for decades? Asking for Merrick Garland.<\/p>&mdash; Dan Rather (@DanRather) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DanRather\/status\/1315098585470386177?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 11, 2020<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Well, no &#8211; doing the job one is elected to do, after winning the election, while not fundamentally changing the institution, is not &#8220;packing the court&#8221;. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But Democrats &#8211; up to and including Biden and Harris at the debats &#8211; seem to be counting on Democrat voters not knowing this.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>HowPoll tests got a bad name &#8211; deservedly so &#8211; during the Jim Crow era.   And it&#8217;s kind of a shame, because more and more, I think some sort of test indicating at least a minimal knowledge of the parts of our government, to say nothing of knowing what they do and why they check and balance each other, would be a very good thing. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\/m farirly convinced &#8211; amost to the point of making up a new Berg&#8217;s Law &#8211; that the Democrat messaging strategy is as follows: Assume that Democrat voters (as opposed to participants in their political class) are low-information voters who don&#8217;t really think all that critically Message accordingly. Exhibit NZA-212949993-6: Well, no &#8211; doing 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":[369,82],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-20","category-scotus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75558","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=75558"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75558\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75560,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75558\/revisions\/75560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}