{"id":18656,"date":"2019-11-07T15:54:05","date_gmt":"2019-11-07T22:54:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/?p=18656"},"modified":"2019-11-07T15:54:05","modified_gmt":"2019-11-07T22:54:05","slug":"the-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2019\/11\/07\/the-problem\/","title":{"rendered":"the problem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <em>David Sheilds&#8217;s Nobody Hates Trump More Than Trump, <\/em>a collection of quick blurstings&#8230; page 127-128&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><em>An acquaintance tells me that, according to a data mining firm at which he works, I am Irish, a Republican, conservative in my social orientation, opposed to raising taxes to support social security, a gun owner, a supporter of military interventions overseas (more concerned with fighting terrorism than protecting civil liberties), don&#8217;t believe income inequality is a major problem, not particularly concerned about Trump&#8217;s &#8220;possible&#8221; conflict of interests, fervently believe the media has overplayed the Russia scandal, and am opposed to the impeachment of Trump.\u00c2\u00a0 Ruh-roh.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The internet cookies probably show he likes ball sports, maybe some country music, maybe shows a complaint about &#8220;political correctness&#8221; &#8212; maybe does some hunting and goes to the outdoors&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The depressing thing about our politics &#8212; it&#8217;s subsumed by cultural impressions, and if the cultural impressions and entertainment choices differ or gets eclectic (live in a couple or a few different social mileus that contradict politically) &#8211;\u00c2\u00a0you&#8217;ll be box you in anyways.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From David Sheilds&#8217;s Nobody Hates Trump More Than Trump, a collection of quick blurstings&#8230; page 127-128&#8230; An acquaintance tells me that, according to a data mining firm at which he works, I am Irish, a Republican, conservative in my social orientation, opposed to raising taxes to support social security, a gun owner, a supporter of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18656","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18656"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18656\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18657,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18656\/revisions\/18657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}