{"id":5450,"date":"2022-01-20T08:31:40","date_gmt":"2022-01-20T16:31:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/?p=5450"},"modified":"2022-01-20T08:31:40","modified_gmt":"2022-01-20T16:31:40","slug":"which-party-is-really-the-stupid-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/?p=5450","title":{"rendered":"Which Party Is Really the Stupid One?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Let&#8217;s interrupt all this smug <a href=\"https:\/\/boingboing.net\/2022\/01\/18\/dumb-us-capitol-rioters-called-nancy-pelosis-office-looking-for-items-they-lost-or-left-behind.html\"> mocking of how stupid righties can be<\/a> for a moment. Because yes, they <em>were<\/em> stupid for doing that. Big deal, they were basically <em>selected<\/em> for their stupidity. They are the rubes who fell for Trump&#8217;s rhetoric to show up at the Capitol. Then they do something <em>else<\/em> stupid as well. Big surprise.<\/p>\n<p>What I am interested in is the big picture. Which party has more <em>overall average stupidity<\/em>? Anyone can pick the game of cherry-picking a particularly stupid subset of the other side&#8217;s adherents to make fun of, so exercises like the one engaged in by the linked article really do not say much.<\/p>\n<p>So, which party, in the aggregate, is stupider?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Which party is smart enough to figure out how to prevail (and prevail <em>repeatedly<\/em>) despite being at a minority when it comes to the popular vote? Which party repeatedly has its lunch eaten, despite having that popular majority?<\/li>\n<li>Which party talked about &#8220;build back better&#8221; and &#8220;bipartisanship&#8221; as it took office in the wake of a coup attempt, as if nothing fundamentally had changed?<\/li>\n<li>Which party blew a once-in-a-lifetime political opportunity posed by widespread public shock at a coup attempt conveniently aligning with a new president&#8217;s honeymoon period, by using that opportunity to aggressively push for measures to defend the basic democratic political order?<\/li>\n<li>While the above two things were happening, which party quietly continued consolidating its advantages, via legislation and redistricting at the state and local levels?<\/li>\n<li>Which party sets the political narrative? Which party willingly lets the other party set the political narrative, by answering the other&#8217;s allegations, thus participating in the other party&#8217;s narrative, as opposed to countering with narrative-setting of its own?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So spare me the self-satisfied smugness about how <em>some<\/em> cherry-picked members of the other party (generally, those without much power in it) are stupid, Democrats. If you want to see <em>real<\/em> political stupidity, look in the mirror.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let&#8217;s interrupt all this smug mocking of how stupid righties can be for a moment. Because yes, they were stupid for doing that. Big deal, they were basically selected for their stupidity. They are the rubes who fell for Trump&#8217;s rhetoric to show up at the Capitol. Then they do something else stupid as well. [&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-5450","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\/5450","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=5450"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5450\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5453,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5450\/revisions\/5453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}