{"id":89842,"date":"2025-08-12T06:22:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-12T11:22:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=89842"},"modified":"2025-08-12T06:22:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-12T11:22:10","slug":"will-of-the-voter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=89842","title":{"rendered":"Will Of The Voter"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>George Will has deserved plenty of flak over the past 40 years or so.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>And he&#8217;s caught some for this interview here.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>And I think the flakkers got it wrong:<\/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\">George Will on Zorhan Mamdani: &quot;I want him to win. I think every 20 years or so, we need a conspicuous, confined experiment with socialism so we can crack it up again.&quot;<br><br> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/CRAJXm8HDv\">pic.twitter.com\/CRAJXm8HDv<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Defiant L\u2019s (@DefiantLs) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DefiantLs\/status\/1954238089284497417?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 9, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I\u00a0<em>think\u00a0<\/em>what he&#8217;s saying here is &#8220;let New York voters FA, so the whole nation can FO&#8221;.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I mean, it&#8217;s going to happen anyway.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>George Will has deserved plenty of flak over the past 40 years or so.\u00a0\u00a0 And he&#8217;s caught some for this interview here.\u00a0\u00a0 And I think the flakkers got it wrong: I\u00a0think\u00a0what he&#8217;s saying here is &#8220;let New York voters FA, so the whole nation can FO&#8221;.\u00a0\u00a0 I mean, it&#8217;s going to happen anyway.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[68,16,51,69],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-capitalism-v-socialism","category-conservatism","category-liberal-tyranny","category-socialism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89842","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=89842"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89842\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89843,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89842\/revisions\/89843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=89842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=89842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=89842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}