{"id":6952,"date":"2026-06-29T06:54:47","date_gmt":"2026-06-29T13:54:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/?p=6952"},"modified":"2026-06-29T06:54:47","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T13:54:47","slug":"centrist-tantrums-getting-noticed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/?p=6952","title":{"rendered":"Centrist Tantrums Getting Noticed"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I&#8217;m going to be giving posting something of a break for a while (because, yet again, I need to back away from the Internet), but the recent whining from the centrist wing of the Democratic Party is so bad that even the humour columnist of <em>USA Today<\/em> recently <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/news\/opinion\/i-am-a-centrist-democrat-and-i-am-terrified-of-success-opinion\/ar-AA26IRd4\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/news\/opinion\/i-am-a-centrist-democrat-and-i-am-terrified-of-success-opinion\/ar-AA26IRd4\">came out with a satire<\/a> of it. In other words, it is another aspect of the left narrative that seems to be getting traction in the mainstream.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now, anecdotes are not data, but this is consistent with both my thesis that centrists are throwing hypocritical tantrums and my thesis that they will end up in history&#8217;s dustbin if they don&#8217;t snap out of it and start acting more rationally.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And, frankly, I don&#8217;t think they can do the latter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m going to be giving posting something of a break for a while (because, yet again, I need to back away from the Internet), but the recent whining from the centrist wing of the Democratic Party is so bad that even the humour columnist of USA Today recently came out with a satire of it. [&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-6952","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\/6952","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=6952"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6952\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6953,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6952\/revisions\/6953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}