{"id":3618,"date":"2018-08-17T08:49:56","date_gmt":"2018-08-17T15:49:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/?p=3618"},"modified":"2018-08-17T08:49:56","modified_gmt":"2018-08-17T15:49:56","slug":"a-good-political-sanity-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/?p=3618","title":{"rendered":"A Good Political Sanity Test"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Can you see the many parallels between Donald Trump and the regime (first <span class=\"module__title__link\">Ch\u00e1vez<\/span>, now Maduro) that rules Venezuela?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not biased to either the left or the right. The politically deluded on the right will find it difficult or impossible to acknowledge Trump&#8217;s misdeeds. The politically deluded on the left will find it difficult or impossible to acknowledge Ch\u00e1vez&#8217;s or Maduro&#8217;s. It&#8217;s an equal-opportunity screen.<\/p>\n<p>If you are not for liberty and against authoritarianism, then you and I really don&#8217;t share that much in common, sorry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Can you see the many parallels between Donald Trump and the regime (first Ch\u00e1vez, now Maduro) that rules Venezuela? It&#8217;s not biased to either the left or the right. The politically deluded on the right will find it difficult or impossible to acknowledge Trump&#8217;s misdeeds. The politically deluded on the left will find it difficult [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3618\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}