{"id":177285,"date":"2019-11-01T18:52:00","date_gmt":"2019-11-01T23:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2019\/11\/01\/cognitive-dissonance-much\/"},"modified":"2019-11-01T18:52:00","modified_gmt":"2019-11-01T23:52:00","slug":"cognitive-dissonance-much","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2019\/11\/01\/cognitive-dissonance-much\/","title":{"rendered":"Cognitive Dissonance Much?"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">NYT poll finds that majorities of Iowa voters want a moderate, common-ground candidate who will use those traits to bring fundamental, systemic change to American society <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/hDY9f87IwK\">pic.twitter.com\/hDY9f87IwK<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; dan solomon (@dansolomon) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/dansolomon\/status\/1190265515509460992?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 1, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So the poll, which appears to be VERY poorly worded, says that people want fundamental systemic change to America, but they want it from a moderate who crosses party lines.<\/p>\n<p>BTW, this response to the Tweet is prize too:<\/p>\n<blockquote data-conversation=\"none\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&quot;Look we want someone that will change things but never talk about changing things. Someone who is different but appears to be the same.<\/p>\n<p>Basically we need a Trojan Horse that we can sneak by The Boomers.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Travis DeCoster (@MyStupidTown) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MyStupidTown\/status\/1190273147959775232?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 1, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Also, speaking as a Boomer (just barely), let me also say F%$# Boomers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NYT poll finds that majorities of Iowa voters want a moderate, common-ground candidate who will use those traits to bring fundamental, systemic change to American society pic.twitter.com\/hDY9f87IwK &mdash; dan solomon (@dansolomon) November 1, 2019 So the poll, which appears to be VERY poorly worded, says that people want fundamental systemic change to America, but they &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[817],"class_list":["post-177285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177285"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177285"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177285\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}