{"id":76735,"date":"2012-06-30T20:17:04","date_gmt":"2012-07-01T02:17:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/?p=76735"},"modified":"2012-06-30T20:17:04","modified_gmt":"2012-07-01T02:17:04","slug":"the-liberal-mind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/?p=76735","title":{"rendered":"The Liberal Mind"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.peekinthewell.net\/blog\/staci\/\" target=\"_blank\">Freeberg<\/a> lays it out.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8230; they react to a situation precisely the way a rational person would \u2014 but, not in that situation, in a different one. Let us call this one \u201cSurvival Staples\u201d or \u201cStarvation Imminent.\u201d Without any supporting evidence at all, and without even any persuasive suggestion, liberals tend to behave as if the commodity-of-the-moment is in such short supply, and is so crucial to the continuing survival of the humans, be they in collectives or be they merely individuals \u2014 that an inexhaustible supply of the whatever-it-is becomes a \u201cright.\u201d Once they\u2019re on this pathway, they get lost, instantly, for they adhere to the notion that mere difficulty involved in acquiring it, nevermind outright failure, constitutes an intolerable encroachment upon that right.<\/p>\n<p>Crime\u2026without an actual \u201cbad guy.\u201d So, of course, one has to be invented, that\u2019s the next step.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Freeberg lays it out. &#8230; they react to a situation precisely the way a rational person would \u2014 but, not in that situation, in a different one. Let us call this one \u201cSurvival Staples\u201d or \u201cStarvation Imminent.\u201d Without any supporting evidence at all, and without even any persuasive suggestion, liberals tend to behave as if [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-think-about-it"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76735","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=76735"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76735\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76737,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76735\/revisions\/76737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}