{"id":2806,"date":"2010-02-17T11:44:59","date_gmt":"2010-02-17T16:44:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=2806"},"modified":"2010-02-17T12:04:39","modified_gmt":"2010-02-17T17:04:39","slug":"trusting-ourselves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=2806","title":{"rendered":"Trusting ourselves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Every time I hear some money grubbing Fox pundit complain about &#8220;government&#8221; I think back to Lincoln&#8217;s Gettysburg Address and his &#8220;of the people, by the people and for the people&#8221; suggestion that we are our government.<\/p>\n<p>As the revered political philosopher Pogo said, &#8220;we have met the enemy and he is us.&#8221; This was seconded by H. Ross Perot who worried about black helicopters. How did he put it? Something like: if you want to know what&#8217;s wrong with America look in the mirror. I assume Ross looked in his mirror regularly.<\/p>\n<p>I understand that the pundits at Fox television all have a clause in their contracts outlawing mirrors in their dressing rooms. <\/p>\n<p>Other than mirrors &#8220;The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.&#8221; Damn platitudes. Hasn&#8217;t anyone heard about <a href=\"http:\/\/e360.yale.edu\/content\/feature.msp?id=2241\">carbon  polution&#8217;s other menace<\/a>? Go Nuclear! Go Obama!<\/p>\n<p>If, after one year in office, American hasn&#8217;t yet come to trust the President&#8217;s centrist politics it may simply be because trust in government (or trust in ourselves) seems to be based on whether we have jobs. <\/p>\n<p>I suspect this post will prompt an email from my buddy about the &#8220;Chosen One.&#8221; And yeah, I agree with my buddy that Obama&#8217;s <em> cap and trade<\/em> is dubious and grossly inferior to carbon taxes for cutting CO2 emissions.  <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com\/.a\/6a00d83451c45669e20120a8a9726c970b-500wi\" alt=\"trust\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every time I hear some money grubbing Fox pundit complain about &#8220;government&#8221; I think back to Lincoln&#8217;s Gettysburg Address and his &#8220;of the people,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-environmental-change"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2806","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=2806"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2806\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}