{"id":83103,"date":"2022-08-16T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-08-16T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=83103"},"modified":"2022-08-16T09:46:44","modified_gmt":"2022-08-16T14:46:44","slug":"cranking-the-screws","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=83103","title":{"rendered":"Cranking The Screws"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>If it seemed to you that the Administration and Dems jammed down the \u201cInflation Reduction Act\u201d &#8211; an agglomeration of \u201cBuild Back Battered\u201c and \u201cGreen New Deal\u201c policies &#8211; really really hard? <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You were probably right. It\u2019s because <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox9.com\/news\/us-personal-impact-climate-change-ap-norc-poll-2022?utm_campaign=trueanthem&amp;utm_medium=trueanthem&amp;utm_source=facebook&amp;fbclid=IwAR23WFpftIdNKTewaVnhBIhM7BwFb6lVOdzfw6JekHdEtU4-PRF9wqgzWnk#l6uve9aijxeirmp46t\">people are losing interest in \u201cclimate change\u201c:<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>mericans are less concerned now about how <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fox5dc.com\/tag\/environment\" target=\"_blank\">climate change<\/a> might impact them personally \u2014 and about how their personal choices affect the climate \u2014 than they were three years ago, a new poll shows, even as a wide majority still believe climate change is happening&#8230;Overall, 35% of U.S. adults say they are &#8220;extremely&#8221; or &#8220;very&#8221; concerned about the impact of climate change on them personally, down from 44% in August 2019. Another third say they are somewhat concerned. Only about half say their actions have an effect on climate change, compared with two-thirds in 2019.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n<p>The story is, in fact, more climatemongery, and goes on to try to re-bury the lede &#8211; but between the lines, the message is there; other priorities are taking over for people in the real world, outside the upper-middle-class progressive bubble.<\/p>\n<p>And if people ever make the connection between the output of the \u201cgreen\/sustainable\/equitable\u201c mafia policies, and the depression in their standard of living, that\u2019s going to be a big problem for the greens.<\/p>\n\n\n<p>Poor people don\u2019t solve problems.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If it seemed to you that the Administration and Dems jammed down the \u201cInflation Reduction Act\u201d &#8211; an agglomeration of \u201cBuild Back Battered\u201c and \u201cGreen New Deal\u201c policies &#8211; really really hard? You were probably right. It\u2019s because people are losing interest in \u201cclimate change\u201c: mericans are less concerned now about how climate change might [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,61,374,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy-and-the-market","category-global-warmingcoolingchange","category-social-justice","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83103","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=83103"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83103\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83119,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83103\/revisions\/83119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=83103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=83103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=83103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}