{"id":89205,"date":"2025-02-07T04:35:00","date_gmt":"2025-02-07T10:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=89205"},"modified":"2025-02-07T06:58:49","modified_gmt":"2025-02-07T12:58:49","slug":"going-whole-hogg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=89205","title":{"rendered":"Going Whole Hogg"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I wasn&#8217;t surprised to see Ken Martin get elected as chair of the DNC. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And since David &#8220;Boss&#8221; Hogg threw his lot in with the Piglet last summer, I figured if Martin won, Hogg was on his way to, er, &#8220;bigger better&#8221; things at the DNC.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I was&#8230;er, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/corner\/david-hogg-will-not-solve-democrats-problems-because-he-is-the-result-of-them\/\">right, sort of<\/a>.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>So the Democrats have decided to cling to the worst of their coalition, and to forefront it. Friedrich Hayek once pointed out that the problem with all large, powerful, nondemocratic institutions \u2014 particularly those with left-wing underpinnings \u2014 is that empirically, the <a href=\"https:\/\/fee.org\/resources\/the-road-to-serfdom-chapter-10-why-the-worst-get-on-top\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">worst inevitably tend to get on top<\/a>. It is the nature of the machine, a product of its operation and existing incentive structures. Which is why I re-emphasize how unsurprising David Hogg\u2019s political ascent to internally elected power has been: Given the party\u2019s sclerotically hidebound decision-making apparatus, of<em> course<\/em> the DNC would find itself turning to someone like Hogg in a desperate attempt to connect with the \u201cyouth vote.\u201d David Hogg is an old person\u2019s <em>idea<\/em> of a young person.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>He wrote it so I don&#8217;t have to.  <\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wasn&#8217;t surprised to see Ken Martin get elected as chair of the DNC. And since David &#8220;Boss&#8221; Hogg threw his lot in with the Piglet last summer, I figured if Martin won, Hogg was on his way to, er, &#8220;bigger better&#8221; things at the DNC. I was&#8230;er, right, sort of. So the Democrats have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89205","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=89205"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89205\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89206,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89205\/revisions\/89206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=89205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=89205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=89205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}