{"id":3022,"date":"2011-09-13T19:04:55","date_gmt":"2011-09-13T19:04:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=3022"},"modified":"2011-09-13T19:04:55","modified_gmt":"2011-09-13T19:04:55","slug":"what_is_wrong_w","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=3022","title":{"rendered":"What Is Wrong With You People?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I haven&#8217;t watched any of the GOP presidential debates, but the highlights are enough to reinforce my dimmest views of the party and its most vocal supporters. At last night&#8217;s debate, audience members cheered when the moderator ask Ron Paul whether a <a href=\"http:\/\/2012.talkingpointsmemo.com\/2011\/09\/tea-party-debate-audience-cheers-idea-of-letting-sick-man-without-insurance-die-video.php\">hypothetical young man without health insurance who has fallen seriously ill should be allowed to die<\/a>. Paul supporters can be a boisterous and particularly knuckleheaded bunch, but I don&#8217;t think they were the only ones cheering. And at the previous debate, <a href=\"http:\/\/2012.talkingpointsmemo.com\/2011\/09\/reagan-library-crowd-goes-wild-for-perrys-234-executions-video.php\">one of the biggest applause lines<\/a> came when the moderator pointed out that Texas had executed a lot of people.<\/p>\n<p>Has the combination of the recession and the disaster that was Bush&#8217;s presidency thrown conservative psyche into such turmoil that it can only respond positively to other people&#8217;s suffering? Has overwhelming nihilism replaced any cohesive ideology they might have once possessed? It may be typical for a pinko Minneapolis liberal like me to react with revulsion to these cries for blood, but I can&#8217;t imagine that they play any better with independents who might have tuned into the debates out of curiosity. Republican handlers might consider putting up big signs that blink &#8220;DON&#8217;T APPLAUD EVEN THOUGH YOU REALLY WANT TO, YOU HEARTLESS DICKS&#8221; when appropriate.&nbsp; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I haven&#8217;t watched any of the GOP presidential debates, but the highlights are enough to reinforce my dimmest views of the party and its most vocal supporters. At last night&#8217;s debate, audience members cheered when the moderator ask Ron Paul whether a hypothetical young man without health insurance who has fallen seriously ill should be <a href='https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=3022' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-1-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9Iwau-MK","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3022","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3022"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3022\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}