{"id":3454,"date":"2021-05-04T21:14:17","date_gmt":"2021-05-05T02:14:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/?p=3454"},"modified":"2021-05-04T21:14:17","modified_gmt":"2021-05-05T02:14:17","slug":"empathize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/2021\/05\/04\/empathize\/","title":{"rendered":"Empathize"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Listened to <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/lions-of-liberty\/id706061933#episodeGuid=4afb824a-458c-4b5b-9a49-c3515999a90b\" target=\"_blank\">this<\/a>. <br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I certainly empathize with some of what he&#8217;s been through, certainly.  In some ways I&#8217;m envious that his disease progression doesn&#8217;t seem to be a severe as mine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What I&#8217;m concerned what he&#8217;s talking about in the political sphere.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s difficult.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I do worry that the stuck-in-neutral <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.heritage.org\/election-integrity\/heritage-explains-if-hr-1-passes\" target=\"_blank\">HR1<\/a> might change the US into something even worse than the duopoly we currently have.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>All I can do as someone who wants things not to get progressively worse is to vote for the least evil.  That was true in the duopoly.  That will remain true if I&#8217;m forced to work within a monopoly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>About all I can do is publicly say what they&#8217;re afraid to.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I did that when it comes to the presidency in 2000.  I did the same when it comes to the presidency in 2016, and 2020.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Previously, I would have worried more about the negative consequences.  I still do, a bit, but many out of concern about what effect it might have on people I care about.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But I&#8217;m never going to cheer for something that&#8217;s wrong.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And I&#8217;m never going to pretend it&#8217;s okay.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Listened to this. I certainly empathize with some of what he&#8217;s been through, certainly. In some ways I&#8217;m envious that his disease progression doesn&#8217;t seem to be a severe as mine. What I&#8217;m concerned what he&#8217;s talking about in the political sphere. It&#8217;s difficult. I do worry that the stuck-in-neutral HR1 might change the US [&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":[36],"class_list":["post-3454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3454"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3454\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}