{"id":3508,"date":"2021-07-23T19:45:21","date_gmt":"2021-07-24T00:45:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/?p=3508"},"modified":"2021-07-23T19:45:21","modified_gmt":"2021-07-24T00:45:21","slug":"twenty-three-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/2021\/07\/23\/twenty-three-8\/","title":{"rendered":"Twenty-three"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>Do you think you can ever trust a politician\u2019s word?&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At the risk of being labelled terminally-<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.urbandictionary.com\/define.php?term=whitepilled\" target=\"_blank\">whitepilled<\/a>, I don&#8217;t think most politicians are deliberately lying.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At the same time, I really don&#8217;t think that most politicians, or people who preach government force as a solution to problems, really consider the underlying basis of their thoughts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You do something because it&#8217;s just, you know, the way that things are done.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You want people to stop doing something?  Great.  I don&#8217;t think that it&#8217;s a good idea to do that thing, either.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So you&#8217;re okay with men with guns locking people in cages for doing something you don&#8217;t like?  How about breaking into residences in the middle of the night?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Oh.  Um.  That&#8217;s how we&#8217;ve always done that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here&#8217;s an idea &#8212; don&#8217;t hurt people, and don&#8217;t take their stuff.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And I&#8217;m having trouble concentrating on this, unfortunately, so I&#8217;m stopping.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do you think you can ever trust a politician\u2019s word?&nbsp; At the risk of being labelled terminally-whitepilled, I don&#8217;t think most politicians are deliberately lying. At the same time, I really don&#8217;t think that most politicians, or people who preach government force as a solution to problems, really consider the underlying basis of their thoughts. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-summer-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3508","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=3508"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3508\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}