{"id":86284,"date":"2023-10-20T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-10-20T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=86284"},"modified":"2023-10-19T09:18:51","modified_gmt":"2023-10-19T14:18:51","slug":"urban-progressive-privilege-peak-karen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=86284","title":{"rendered":"Urban Progressive Privilege: Peak Karen"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Henco is going to have a &#8220;contested&#8221; County Commission race, where &#8220;contested&#8221; means &#8220;a battle between bad, worse and worst&#8221; . <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I think the found &#8216;worst&#8221;.  <\/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\">\nhttps:\/\/twitter.com\/AlphaNewsMN\/status\/1714696874920173640\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>People inexperienced in the ways of Metro &#8220;progressives&#8221; might joke &#8220;I wonder if she&#8217;s going to put &#8220;Irritating people into behavioral change&#8221; into her campaign literature, yuk yuk&#8221;. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To those who know the breed, it&#8217;s not a joke.   The suburban white upper-middle-class &#8220;progressive&#8221; seeks out different flavors of trite masochism and whiffle-ball self-abnegation &#8211; paying for bags, making &#8220;stolen land declarations&#8221;, putting up &#8220;In This House&#8221; signs &#8211; that have little financial and no moral cost, to signal dubious but convenient virtue to the less englightened.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I bet she wins.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Henco is going to have a &#8220;contested&#8221; County Commission race, where &#8220;contested&#8221; means &#8220;a battle between bad, worse and worst&#8221; . I think the found &#8216;worst&#8221;. People inexperienced in the ways of Metro &#8220;progressives&#8221; might joke &#8220;I wonder if she&#8217;s going to put &#8220;Irritating people into behavioral change&#8221; into her campaign literature, yuk yuk&#8221;. To [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51,349],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberal-tyranny","category-urban-liberal-privilege-liberal-tyranny"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86284","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=86284"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86284\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86285,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86284\/revisions\/86285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=86284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=86284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=86284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}