{"id":2251,"date":"2009-06-19T19:45:59","date_gmt":"2009-06-20T00:45:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=2251"},"modified":"2017-03-02T17:37:27","modified_gmt":"2017-03-02T22:37:27","slug":"why-are-you-hitting-yourself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=2251","title":{"rendered":"Why are you hitting yourself?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A question that people have asked me for over a year now about the Red Plan is &#8220;why is this being allowed to continue?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mattsteinglass.wordpress.com\/2009\/06\/20\/why-the-absurd-vote-totals\/\">Here&#8217;s a piece <\/a>with an interesting perspective. I&#8217;ve seen bullies do this, sometimes &#8220;jokingly.&#8221; As more and more people stand to gain something from the Red Plan more of them are repeating the joke.<\/p>\n<p>A sample:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>When you make people accept a plausible fiction, you&#8217;re just winning that one issue. But when you make them accept a lie which everyone knows is a lie, you&#8217;re destroying their integrity, destroying their will to describe the world as they see it, rather than as you tell them it is. It&#8217;s the bully on the playground holding the weaker kid&#8217;s arm and slapping his cheek with it, saying &#8220;Why are you hitting yourself?&#8221; Like Vaclav Havel&#8217;s grocer hanging &#8220;Workers of the world, unite!&#8221; in his shop window, once a person has acquiesced to something they do not believe, and which everyone knows they do not believe, they become complicit in their own oppression.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A question that people have asked me for over a year now about the Red Plan is &#8220;why is this being allowed to continue?&#8221;&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-red-plan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2251"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2251\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20719,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2251\/revisions\/20719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}