{"id":79835,"date":"2021-10-26T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-10-26T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=79835"},"modified":"2021-10-25T10:01:19","modified_gmt":"2021-10-25T15:01:19","slug":"meet-the-petard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=79835","title":{"rendered":"Meet The Petard"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Barack Obama found a low-key culture war &#8211; including a racial divide that had largely settled down &#8211; and fanned it, deliberately and to his electoral benefit. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And now that the wind seems to be changing?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Former President <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BarackObama?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@BarackObama<\/a>: &quot;We don&#39;t have time to be wasted on these phony trumped-up culture wars, this fake outrage, the right-wing media&#39;s pedals to juice their ratings.&quot; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/bmMnet8q5X\">pic.twitter.com\/bmMnet8q5X<\/a><\/p>&mdash; The Hill (@thehill) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/thehill\/status\/1452022922290290695?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 23, 2021<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>From 2009 &#8211; when Obama started peddling the story of the impending wave of &#8220;white supremacist terror &#8221; that was going to &#8220;dwarf 9\/11&#8221; &#8211; to the exploitation of every racially-tingled incident, Obama was the Erwin Rommel of the Culture Wars.   The right is still waiting for its Montgomery. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And I&#8217;d like to remind our DFL friends &#8211; the &#8220;phony trumped-up culture war&#8217; he&#8217;s talking about is the <em>cover-up of sexual assauilts <\/em>in the Loudon County, Virginia schools.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So. .#MeToo.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The culture war, at least in terms of issues affecting the 2022 mid-terms, seems to be blowing in the Dems faces.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Barack Obama found a low-key culture war &#8211; including a racial divide that had largely settled down &#8211; and fanned it, deliberately and to his electoral benefit. And now that the wind seems to be changing? From 2009 &#8211; when Obama started peddling the story of the impending wave of &#8220;white supremacist terror &#8221; that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,377],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-war","category-the-second-civil-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79835","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=79835"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79835\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79844,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79835\/revisions\/79844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=79835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=79835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=79835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}