{"id":75587,"date":"2020-10-14T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-10-14T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=75587"},"modified":"2020-10-13T07:59:46","modified_gmt":"2020-10-13T12:59:46","slug":"orwell-was-a-pollyanna-part-cvii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=75587","title":{"rendered":"Orwell Was A Pollyanna, Part CVII"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Presidents nominating, and Senates confirming, SCOTUS seats via the the process defined in the Constitution is &#8220;packing&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Repealing a working-class tax cut won&#8217;t increase taxes on the working class. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nobody&#8217;s coming for your guns. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Anti&#8221;-Fa doesn&#8217;t exist. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>High density cities, with all their accoutrements (mass transit, densely-packed infranstructure) are more sustainable, livable. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The protests are mostly peaceful. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A decade and a half of demonizing police and running a catch-and-release judicial system, combined with open threats to defund or abolish the police, have no effect on crime rates, silly peasants:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-twitter wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Minneapolis City Council President Lisa Bender: Crime Spike Isn&#39;t Connected To Movement To Dismantle MPD <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/38EZ4LOhAA\">https:\/\/t.co\/38EZ4LOhAA<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/MOec8pdthg\">pic.twitter.com\/MOec8pdthg<\/a><\/p>&mdash; WCCO | CBS News Minnesota (@WCCO) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WCCO\/status\/1315819646994599937?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 13, 2020<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The problem isn&#8217;t that the Minneapolis Student Council and the president of its Sustainability Club are lying to the people.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The problem is that they know the people who vote for them are too uncritical, complacent, dependent or stupid to know any better.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So far, it seems like a winning strategy. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Politically, I mean. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Presidents nominating, and Senates confirming, SCOTUS seats via the the process defined in the Constitution is &#8220;packing&#8221; Repealing a working-class tax cut won&#8217;t increase taxes on the working class. Nobody&#8217;s coming for your guns. &#8220;Anti&#8221;-Fa doesn&#8217;t exist. High density cities, with all their accoutrements (mass transit, densely-packed infranstructure) are more sustainable, livable. The protests are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,17,51,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime-and-punishment","category-minneapolis","category-liberal-tyranny","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=75587"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75587\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75588,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75587\/revisions\/75588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}