{"id":75,"date":"2012-09-01T09:35:17","date_gmt":"2012-09-01T18:35:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/opinion.alaskapolicy.net\/pardonme\/?p=75"},"modified":"2012-09-21T04:31:33","modified_gmt":"2012-09-21T13:31:33","slug":"a-republican-epiphany","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/opinion.alaskapolicy.net\/pardonme\/a-republican-epiphany\/","title":{"rendered":"A Republican Epiphany"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sometimes, especially I suppose when we are annoyed with a specific problem, what should appear obvious to us is hidden by our very focus; we have simply dialed out what benefit we might obtain from Occam’s Razor<\/a> and forgotten our Holmes<\/a>. And that is how I twisted in trying to explain the zealousness of GOP proponents who are of traditional minority ethnicity and race.<\/p>\n

Suddenly I realized that what we had here was a subscription to the concept of a societal lottery.\u00a0 No matter that only 1 in a million will be able to make it up the economic ladder,\u00a0 the promise of America is only that you have that one in a million chance, and that is supposed to provide contentment to the masses, and just as in the case of the Lotto<\/a>,\u00a0 the balance of the population is supposed to feed the kitty so that someone, in scraping the cream off the dear financial tithes of the poor for themselves, can fund that\u00a0 one in a million opportunity.<\/p>\n

This is the siren call offered by Mia Love and the other high priests of the GOP Promise, to be contrasted with the pains and perils imposed by the Democratic party in its attempt to shackle the poor in an eternal state of being redistributees,\u00a0 slaves to their own penury. In the dsytopic<\/a> vision of the GOP, hope has been slain and promise drawn and quartered by the supposedly helping hand of the left, a hand which appears velvet but imparts the iron of a failed fascist society. Lions and tigers and bears!<\/p>\n

Love et al can’t rationally expect anyone to buy the concept that everyone in the US can rise (though they are willing to accept the devotion of the silly and the true believers.)\u00a0 So they offer up the Lottery System of the US (undoubtedly to be found in the US Constitution,\u00a0 but I will have to get back to you on that) to replace the historic concept of the roll of government in the US, the American System<\/a>. The GOP will give you the same hope that you get from the Lotto, and that should be enough for anyone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sometimes, especially I suppose when we are annoyed with a specific problem, what should appear obvious to us is hidden by our very focus; we have simply dialed out what benefit we might obtain from Occam’s Razor and forgotten our Holmes. And that is how I twisted in trying to explain the zealousness of GOP […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,13,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-author","category-marc-grober","category-political-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/opinion.alaskapolicy.net\/pardonme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/opinion.alaskapolicy.net\/pardonme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/opinion.alaskapolicy.net\/pardonme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opinion.alaskapolicy.net\/pardonme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opinion.alaskapolicy.net\/pardonme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/opinion.alaskapolicy.net\/pardonme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91,"href":"https:\/\/opinion.alaskapolicy.net\/pardonme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75\/revisions\/91"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/opinion.alaskapolicy.net\/pardonme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opinion.alaskapolicy.net\/pardonme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opinion.alaskapolicy.net\/pardonme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}