{"id":5680,"date":"2022-05-10T21:19:21","date_gmt":"2022-05-11T04:19:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/?p=5680"},"modified":"2022-05-10T21:19:59","modified_gmt":"2022-05-11T04:19:59","slug":"why-i-am-generally-pessimistic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/?p=5680","title":{"rendered":"Why I Am Generally Pessimistic"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>There is no better Republican Party. It is a gang of fascists and authoritarians, and is unlikely to change.<\/li><li>There is no better Democratic Party. It is weak and incompetent, and is unlikely to change.<\/li><li>There are no better American voters. They are generally ignorant and stupid, and are unlikely to change.<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p>I will post in a day or two about what it would take for me to revise any of these assumptions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is no better Republican Party. It is a gang of fascists and authoritarians, and is unlikely to change. There is no better Democratic Party. It is weak and incompetent, and is unlikely to change. There are no better American voters. They are generally ignorant and stupid, and are unlikely to change. I will post [&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-5680","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\/5680","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=5680"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5680\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5682,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5680\/revisions\/5682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}