{"id":6695,"date":"2025-09-07T01:22:46","date_gmt":"2025-09-07T08:22:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/?p=6695"},"modified":"2025-12-12T08:34:37","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T16:34:37","slug":"three-rules-of-contemporary-u-s-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/?p=6695","title":{"rendered":"Three Rules of Contemporary U.S. Politics"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>There is no better Republican Party.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>There is no better Democratic Party.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>There is no better electorate.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p>To be considered rational and reality-based, any theory or proposal must at minimum satisfy all of the above three rules.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I am not saying that any of these things is <em>impossible<\/em> to change, only that spontaneous change is <em>extremely<\/em> unlikely. Consider them laws of political inertia: things will not change their current trajectories unless work is done on them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For example, Chuck Schumer&#8217;s strategy of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msnbc.com\/opinion\/msnbc-opinion\/chuck-schumer-republican-party-future-trump-rcna197092\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.msnbc.com\/opinion\/msnbc-opinion\/chuck-schumer-republican-party-future-trump-rcna197092\">waiting for the Republicans to come &#8217;round<\/a> violates Rule No. 1, and that he persists in the Democratic Party leadership proves Rule No. 2.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To be considered rational and reality-based, any theory or proposal must at minimum satisfy all of the above three rules. I am not saying that any of these things is impossible to change, only that spontaneous change is extremely unlikely. Consider them laws of political inertia: things will not change their current trajectories unless work [&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-6695","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\/6695","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=6695"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6695\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6789,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6695\/revisions\/6789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}