{"id":197960,"date":"2007-12-28T17:57:00","date_gmt":"2007-12-28T22:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/12\/28\/too-true-16\/"},"modified":"2007-12-28T17:57:00","modified_gmt":"2007-12-28T22:57:00","slug":"too-true-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/12\/28\/too-true-16\/","title":{"rendered":"Too True"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In his blog post, <a href=\"http:\/\/krugman.blogs.nytimes.com\/2007\/12\/26\/memories-of-2003\/\"><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Memories of 2003<\/span><\/a>, the great Paul Krugman notes:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p>Back in 2003 all the Kewl Kids, as a lot of my friends call them,<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>FWIW, I call them &#8220;very serious people&#8221;.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"> thought that to suggest that Bush was misleading us into war was, you know, shrill \u2014 it marked you as not being a Serious Person.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\">And here\u2019s the thing: they still do. Even now, it\u2019s better for your reputation not to have noticed until, say, 2005 that we had some dangerous people running the country. If you noticed earlier \u2014 or, worse yet, you caught on to the administration\u2019s essential mendacity right from the beginning \u2014 it\u2019s not a sign that maybe you had good judgment. It shows that you were an irrational Bush hater.<\/span> <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is kind of like the term &#8220;Prematurely anti-fascist&#8221; that was big in the 1950s.<\/p>\n<p>How can one be <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">prematurely<\/span> anti-fascist???  That&#8217;s kind of like being <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">prematurely<\/span> anti-baby eating.<\/p>\n<p>It was a way of dismissing people&#8217;s ideas without any serious review.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s why the Democratic party should extricate from groups of &#8220;very serious people&#8221; like the Council on Foreign Relations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In his blog post, Memories of 2003, the great Paul Krugman notes: Back in 2003 all the Kewl Kids, as a lot of my friends call them, FWIW, I call them &#8220;very serious people&#8221;. thought that to suggest that Bush was misleading us into war was, you know, shrill \u2014 it marked you as not &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1002,978,982],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-197960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-good-writing","category-politics","category-stupid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197960"}],"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=197960"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197960\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}