{"id":37,"date":"2004-04-29T12:48:11","date_gmt":"2004-04-29T12:48:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2004\/04\/29\/108323929156598453\/"},"modified":"2004-04-29T12:48:11","modified_gmt":"2004-04-29T12:48:11","slug":"108323929156598453","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2004\/04\/108323929156598453\/","title":{"rendered":"108323929156598453"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s &#8220;way to state the obvious&#8221; award goes to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/articles\/A39044-2004Apr24.html?referrer=email\">The Washington Post<\/a>. According to the article, American politics are divided in a sharply bipartisan manner which will ensure that after the Presidential election a sizable chunk of the population will end up pissed off.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s actually pretty interesting, despite this, and makes even clearer (should any further clarification be necessary) that if Bush gets a second term everyone in Europe &#8211; in fact, everyone in the world &#8211; will be well and truly screwed.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Bush extols &#8220;entrepreneurs,&#8221; insists on tax cutting and deregulation, and promotes drilling and logging&#8230; he professes a born-again faith and appeals to traditional norms on issues such as marriage and cloning&#8230; he disdains intellectual subtleties in favor of plain-spoken verities.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Kerry &#8220;embraces environmentalism, labor unionism and regulation&#8230; he emphasizes the complexities of issues and urges an internationalist foreign policy&#8230; he gives precedence to tolerance over tradition and dissent over conformity.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Toleration? Environmentalism? Internationalism? Understanding of complexities? &#8211; Disgusting pinko nonsense! We want God, big business, pollution, unilateralism and war!<\/p>\n<p>The fact that some people genuinely think like that scares the living hell out of me&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s &#8220;way to state the obvious&#8221; award goes to The Washington Post. According to the article, American politics are divided in a sharply bipartisan manner which will ensure that after the Presidential election a sizable chunk of the population will &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2004\/04\/108323929156598453\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}