{"id":85125,"date":"2023-05-17T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-05-17T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=85125"},"modified":"2023-05-16T14:46:49","modified_gmt":"2023-05-16T19:46:49","slug":"questions-no-democrat-can-will-or-is-allowed-to-answer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=85125","title":{"rendered":"Questions No Democrat Can, Will, Or Is Allowed To Answer"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

It may have felt like I was picking on “Emery” last week, asking him to define exactly when “his” life developed enough moral value that it his. mother would have ceased being able to abort “him”<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of course, someone who can’t define when their own life acquired moral weight also can’t, logically, tell you why it’s OK for their mother not <\/em>to abort them now. “I’m alive”. OK – since when? And why? What is this magical threshold? Whistling and hoping the question goes away isn’t much more intellectually honest than telling your teenagers that the stork brings babies. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But I have yet to meet a Democrat, anywhere, at any level, who can, will or, I suspect, is allowed to try to answer that question. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, that’s one such question. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

What are the rest?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Let’s build a list: the questions no Democrat can, will, or is allowed to answer:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When Did It Become Not Acceptable For Your<\/em> Mother To Abort You<\/em>.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Not some generic woman. Not some abstract fetus. Your mom, and you. When did your life gain moral standing? When did your body (and, uh, associated consciousness, mind, spirit or soul) become someone with its own bodily autonomy?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

How Can You Tell “Universal” Background Checks Are Working Without A Registry?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The police find a gun. They suspect that the person who got the gun to the perp didn’t take a background check. If the record doesn’t exist tying a transfer to the perp, how do you prove it if all of them aren’t kept on record? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

And how is this record – of data points, almost like, I dunno, a base of data (is there a word for that) kept, without a registry?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, What City Got (Sustainably) More Affordable After Rent Control?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Beyond New York and San Francisco, the list of places with rent control<\/a> and the list of cities with literally zero habitable affordable housing are pretty much the same list. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why do high school kids earning Minimum Wage – who, according to the BLS, overwhelmingly live in homes with middle class incomes – need a “living wage”?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Don’t say “because many of them support their families” – most of them don’t, and as we saw last week<\/a>, the “living wage” has slashed low-income jobs in the Twin Cities. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

So…why?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I’d like to continue the list. Any others?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It may have felt like I was picking on “Emery” last week, asking him to define exactly when “his” life developed enough moral value that it his. mother would have ceased being able to abort “him”. Of course, someone who can’t define when their own life acquired moral weight also can’t, logically, tell you why […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-war","category-pc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85125","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=85125"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85125\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85144,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85125\/revisions\/85144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=85125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=85125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=85125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}