{"id":76282,"date":"2020-12-28T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-12-28T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=76282"},"modified":"2020-12-27T09:50:47","modified_gmt":"2020-12-27T15:50:47","slug":"un-krakened","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=76282","title":{"rendered":"Un-Krakened"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Do you know the one thing I always hated about Joe Soucheray’s Garage Logic<\/em>? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

For a show that constantly railed on about the need for individual responsibility, he rattled on an awful lot about “the mystery” and its attendant “mysterians”. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It struck me as a little incongruous – demanding responsibility from everyone else, but blaming the things that vexed “logicians” on some, well, mysterious force above and beyond anyone’s control. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It’s an oddly “progressive” trait – ascribing fault to systems and groups rather than individuals. And not in a good way. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The urge to roll things up in to all-encompassing narratives, and to try to “solve” them with all-encompassing proposals – “The New Deal”, Obamacare, The Great Society, and on and on – has been part of “progressivism”‘s DNA since there was a word for it (other than “Leninism”). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

And while I give Trump the credit he’s due, he’s brought out a trait among way too many Republicans to do exactly the same. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Make no mistake – our election system has problems, problems big enough to warrant bringing in the Department of Justice under consent decrees no less drastic than those that governed southern elections after the Civil Rights Act was passed. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

And state laws that make corruption almost impossible to identify, much less charge and prosecute, must become an electoral scarlet letter among those who care about the American Experiment. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But let’s stop all this jabbering about “Krakens”. Put up or shut up. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Because the real problem isn’t even hiding. It’s in plain sight, and it’s largely legal. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Two of them, really<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What happened in 2020 is something more fundamental and profound. What happened in 2020 is cultural and systemic, and sadly, generally legal. Until Republicans, and more importantly Trump supporters, understand what happened to them this year, it will happen again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Two things happened in 2020. First, COVID led to a dismantling of state election integrity laws by everyone except the one body with the constitutional prerogative to change the rules of electing the president \u2013 the state legislatures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Second, the Center for Technology and Civic Life happened.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you are focused on goblins in the voting machines but don\u2019t know anything about the CTCL and what they did to defeat Donald Trump, it\u2019s time to up your game.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I’ll urge you to read the whole thing. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Do you know the one thing I always hated about Joe Soucheray’s Garage Logic? For a show that constantly railed on about the need for individual responsibility, he rattled on an awful lot about “the mystery” and its attendant “mysterians”. It struck me as a little incongruous – demanding responsibility from everyone else, but blaming […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[369,367],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-20","category-trump"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76282","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=76282"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76282\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76283,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76282\/revisions\/76283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}