{"id":4209,"date":"2019-05-12T10:56:01","date_gmt":"2019-05-12T17:56:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/?p=4209"},"modified":"2019-05-12T10:56:01","modified_gmt":"2019-05-12T17:56:01","slug":"nonideological-pragmatists-revisited","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/?p=4209","title":{"rendered":"Nonideological Pragmatists, Revisited"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>About a year ago, I made <a href=\"\/blog\/new\/?p=3212\">a post<\/a> which claimed that many of the voters labeled &#8220;moderates&#8221; do not in fact have any strong ideological commitment to moderation or any other political principle. They are what I labeled nonideological pragmatists, willing to entertain ideas from across the political spectrum, <em>provided they are presented in a convincing way.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Today, I ran across <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AOC\/status\/1126985462260936706\">a Twitter thread<\/a> by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez which anecdotally illustrates this point.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About a year ago, I made a post which claimed that many of the voters labeled &#8220;moderates&#8221; do not in fact have any strong ideological commitment to moderation or any other political principle. They are what I labeled nonideological pragmatists, willing to entertain ideas from across the political spectrum, provided they are presented in a [&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-4209","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\/4209","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=4209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4209\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}