{"id":193728,"date":"2008-11-20T22:32:00","date_gmt":"2008-11-21T03:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/11\/20\/republican-party-has-lost-the-economist\/"},"modified":"2008-11-20T22:32:00","modified_gmt":"2008-11-21T03:32:00","slug":"republican-party-has-lost-the-economist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/11\/20\/republican-party-has-lost-the-economist\/","title":{"rendered":"Republican Party Has Lost The Economist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In an editorial, they call the &#8216;Phants, a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/world\/unitedstates\/displaystory.cfm?story_id=12599247\">Ship of fools<\/a>, and lambast them for systematically becoming anti-idea and anti-thought over the past 30 years.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a good read, and the last sentence, &#8220;Richard Weaver, one of the founders of modern conservatism, once wrote a book entitled \u201cIdeas have Consequences\u201d; unfortunately, too many Republicans are still refusing to acknowledge that idiocy has consequences, too,&#8221; had me cleaning my screen.<\/p>\n<p>While there is much wrong with the Republican party, they are correct that the anti-intellectual anti though bent of the modern Republican party is at the core of much of this.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a good read.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an editorial, they call the &#8216;Phants, a Ship of fools, and lambast them for systematically becoming anti-idea and anti-thought over the past 30 years. It&#8217;s a good read, and the last sentence, &#8220;Richard Weaver, one of the founders of modern conservatism, once wrote a book entitled \u201cIdeas have Consequences\u201d; unfortunately, too many Republicans are &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1002,1003,978],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-193728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-good-writing","category-philosophy","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193728"}],"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=193728"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193728\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}