{"id":3720,"date":"2010-02-10T08:23:21","date_gmt":"2010-02-10T12:23:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/?p=3720"},"modified":"2010-02-10T08:23:46","modified_gmt":"2010-02-10T12:23:46","slug":"public-wisdom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2010\/02\/10\/public-wisdom\/","title":{"rendered":"Public Wisdom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jacob Weisberg, as part of the <a href=\"http:\/\/clivecrook.theatlantic.com\/archives\/2010\/02\/liberal_condescension.php\">recent multi-party conversation on &#8220;liberal condescension&#8221;<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/id\/2243797\/\">identifies a point of central importance<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nIn trying to explain why our political paralysis seems to have gotten so much worse over the past year, analysts have rounded up a plausible collection of reasons including: President Obama&#8217;s tactical missteps, the obstinacy of congressional Republicans, rising partisanship in Washington, the blustering idiocracy of the cable-news stations, and the Senate filibuster, which has devolved into a super-majority threshold for any important legislation. These are all large factors, to be sure, but that list neglects what may be the biggest culprit in our current predicament: the childishness, ignorance, and growing incoherence of the public at large. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Whose fault?  Our fault. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jacob Weisberg, as part of the recent multi-party conversation on &#8220;liberal condescension&#8221;, identifies a point of central importance: In trying to explain why our political paralysis seems to have gotten so much worse over the past year, analysts have rounded up a plausible collection of reasons including: President Obama&#8217;s tactical missteps, the obstinacy of congressional [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-society"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3720","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3720"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3720\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3722,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3720\/revisions\/3722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}