{"id":87611,"date":"2024-05-28T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-05-28T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=87611"},"modified":"2024-05-28T07:30:58","modified_gmt":"2024-05-28T12:30:58","slug":"the-chicanes-of-leftist-economics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=87611","title":{"rendered":"The Chicanes Of Leftist Economics"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>If the Democrat party&#8217;s messaging machine were targeted at people who <em>did <\/em>critical thinking, I&#8217;d have a little sympathy for them. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They&#8217;d have to navigate a pretty tight logical hairpin turn. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To wit:  they&#8217;d have to supervise the gaslighting of the people to believe the &#8220;experts&#8221; and not their lying eyes about the economy:<\/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\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&quot;Nearly three in five Americans wrongly believe the US is in an economic recession, and the majority blame the Biden administration, according to a Harris poll conducted exclusively for the Guardian&quot; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/shCorJgPHN\">https:\/\/t.co\/shCorJgPHN<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/brianstelter\/status\/1793247910580121627?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 22, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8230;and that workers have more buying power than they did five years ago&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8230;while simultaneously making them believe that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox9.com\/news\/school-teacher-salary-average-map-2024-how-much-paid-state?taid=665464304d53300001996585&amp;utm_campaign=trueanthem&amp;utm_medium=trueanthem&amp;utm_source=twitter\">public employee unions are doing <em>less <\/em>well<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>As schools across the country struggle to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.livenowfox.com\/tag\/education\"><u>find teachers<\/u><\/a> to hire, more governors are pushing for pay increases, bonuses and other perks for the beleaguered profession.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, teacher salaries have fallen further and further behind those of their college-educated peers in other fields.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Remember &#8211; I said <em>&#8220;if <\/em>they had to convince people who could think critically&#8221;. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They don&#8217;t.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Steady as she goes. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If the Democrat party&#8217;s messaging machine were targeted at people who did critical thinking, I&#8217;d have a little sympathy for them. They&#8217;d have to navigate a pretty tight logical hairpin turn. To wit: they&#8217;d have to supervise the gaslighting of the people to believe the &#8220;experts&#8221; and not their lying eyes about the economy: &#8230;and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy-and-the-market","category-democrats"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87611","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=87611"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87611\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87612,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87611\/revisions\/87612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=87611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=87611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=87611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}