{"id":82066,"date":"2022-05-18T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-05-18T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=82066"},"modified":"2022-05-17T09:20:42","modified_gmt":"2022-05-17T14:20:42","slug":"intellectual-dna-testing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=82066","title":{"rendered":"Intellectual DNA Testing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I occasionally listen to public radio – not “in spite of” the fact that they have turned into the public relations arm, not just of “today’s left”, but of the “progressive” upper middle class. It reflects their angsts; I imagine a drinking game involving taking a shot whenever there’s a mention of Covid, January 6, climate change and white supremacy being very short and very chemically lethal. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It reflects their conceits; the traditional “NPR Voice”, the ofay upper-middle-class accent of the Oberlin poli-sci graduate, is being supplanted by very audibly African-American and, how shall we say this, accents of males with alternate lifestyles – the sort of stuff things that upper-middle-class white progressives demand from their entertainment. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

And it reflects their ignorance, over and over, in so many ways. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

One that I caught yesterday while driving across the Northern Plains, on the syndicated “New Yorker Radio Hour<\/a>” – an episode which has not yet gotten onto the website – involved a woman, a reporter if memory serves, saying with what sounded like a straight face:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

China has changed so much in recent years – economically, and socially. <\/p>

And yet, the political system just doesn’t seem to change<\/strong>…<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Huh. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

You’re saying a communist kleptocracy, which knows fiull well that the only alternative to being in power <\/em>in a Communist dictatorship is a bullet in the back of the head, a system that is more similar to the Mafia than anything else we know of, doesn’t “change with the times?”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I often – very, very often – say that Democrats can say pretty much anything they want to their audience, since they – whether they dropped out of high school, or have a PhD in Women’s Studies – are so universally gullible and ignorant. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sometimes I feel like I’m speaking too broadly. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, I hear things like this, and I get back on track.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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