{"id":80304,"date":"2021-12-17T06:08:58","date_gmt":"2021-12-17T12:08:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=80304"},"modified":"2021-12-17T06:09:15","modified_gmt":"2021-12-17T12:09:15","slug":"not-as-woke-as-they-think","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=80304","title":{"rendered":"Not As &#8220;Woke&#8221; As They Think"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A friend of the blog, from (this is an important to the story) Saint Paul, emails:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>A couple who currently rents on my block are looking to move. Not that unusual. Renting isn&#8217;t typically a long term goal of professionals. They want to move out of the neighborhood versus buying in the neighborhood. Again, not unusual. People move up, have their dream home preferences.<br>They are like typical woke liberals with their various signs about being welcoming, #resist, etc. They proudly voted for rent control. They proudly give money, food to the homeless and believe the homeless belong on our lawns. We don&#8217;t agree on everything politics, but they are neighborly, so I shrug off the differences.<br>Until I had an interesting conversation. They are looking for elsewhere because it is too chaotic here. There are too many renters and more are moving in. There is too much change. It doesn&#8217;t seem like it&#8217;s going to get better.<br>OK. But, do they see how their votes made this happen? Of course not.&nbsp;<br>I know I may be accused of being too optimistic here. But, maybe when people who voted for this move away, we&#8217;ll have more power to vote for things that will actually improve things again.&nbsp;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>As we&#8217;ve seen on policy after policy after policy, the left seems to think:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>There is no such thing as unintended consequences<\/li><li>They&#8217;ll affect other people if they happen. <\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Many of them moved to Edina, Roseville and Bloomington about the time they had the epiphany &#8211; <em>utterly <\/em>unrelated to the inevitable effects of their policies, naturally &#8211; described above. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Weird. <\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A friend of the blog, from (this is an important to the story) Saint Paul, emails: A couple who currently rents on my block are looking to move. Not that unusual. Renting isn&#8217;t typically a long term goal of professionals. They want to move out of the neighborhood versus buying in the neighborhood. Again, not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,337,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pc","category-privilege","category-st-paul"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80304","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=80304"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80304\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80311,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80304\/revisions\/80311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=80304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=80304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=80304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}