{"id":79798,"date":"2021-10-21T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-10-21T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=79798"},"modified":"2021-10-20T07:21:47","modified_gmt":"2021-10-20T12:21:47","slug":"clarification","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=79798","title":{"rendered":"Clarification"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I&#8217;ve taken a certain amount of flak over the years for saying things like &#8220;Democrat pols can say anything they want, because they know their voters just don&#8217;t think that critically&#8221;, and &#8220;the Democrat base are essentially intellectual herd animals&#8221;. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That seems&#8230;tart.  Uncivil.  Uncomfortably inflammatory, for a guy who tries to keep things as measured and &#8220;civil&#8221; (whatever that&#8217;s worth, these days).  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But it&#8217;s accurate.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And we know this because Big Left <em>tells us <\/em>it&#8217;s accurate:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"657\" height=\"732\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Stop-Thinking.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-79799\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Stop-Thinking.jpg 657w, http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Stop-Thinking-269x300.jpg 269w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 657px) 100vw, 657px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>But the headlines above aren&#8217;t revelation.  Just confirmation. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve taken a certain amount of flak over the years for saying things like &#8220;Democrat pols can say anything they want, because they know their voters just don&#8217;t think that critically&#8221;, and &#8220;the Democrat base are essentially intellectual herd animals&#8221;. That seems&#8230;tart. Uncivil. Uncomfortably inflammatory, for a guy who tries to keep things as measured [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[426],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-orwell-overestimated-democrats"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79798","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=79798"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79798\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79800,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79798\/revisions\/79800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=79798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=79798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=79798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}