{"id":85254,"date":"2023-05-31T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-05-31T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=85254"},"modified":"2023-05-30T10:04:33","modified_gmt":"2023-05-30T15:04:33","slug":"the-next-big-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=85254","title":{"rendered":"The Next Big Thing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>2022 was an upset and a good year at the polls for the DFL, largely on the strength of:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Hysteria about abortion, whipped up after the SCOTUS overturned <em>Roe<\/em>. <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>&#8220;Fully Funding Education&#8221; &#8211; a concept literally no DFLer could or would define.   <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>&#8230;that&#8217;s about it.  <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>In terms of divisive issues that turn out Democrats in droves, the big kahunas of recent years?   They can&#8217;t re-overturn <em>Roe<\/em>, re-legalize pot, re-sanctify stalking and Munchausens Syndrome, re-legalize same sex marriage &#8211; and they got literally everything they asked for in education, so the schools should be &#8220;Fully Funded&#8221;, whatever that is.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So &#8211; let&#8217;s do some predicting. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What will the the next issue the DFL uses to try to panic their herds of ill-informed, uncritical, gullible, emotion-driven hysterical voter base to the polls?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Leave &#8217;em in the comments. <\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2022 was an upset and a good year at the polls for the DFL, largely on the strength of: In terms of divisive issues that turn out Democrats in droves, the big kahunas of recent years? They can&#8217;t re-overturn Roe, re-legalize pot, re-sanctify stalking and Munchausens Syndrome, re-legalize same sex marriage &#8211; and they got [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425,320],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-24","category-mndfl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85254","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=85254"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85254\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85255,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85254\/revisions\/85255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=85254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=85254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=85254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}