{"id":2996,"date":"2010-06-03T15:28:36","date_gmt":"2010-06-03T20:28:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=2996"},"modified":"2010-06-03T15:29:44","modified_gmt":"2010-06-03T20:29:44","slug":"the-last-word-on-stereotyping-partisans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=2996","title":{"rendered":"the last word on stereotyping partisans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Having endured thirty years of suffering from political stereotyping first by Democrats who pegged me as the worst kind of Republican then for twenty years (post Reagan) as a fake Republican I don&#8217;t entirely disagree with Vic.  I&#8217;ve caucused with the DFL for the last three election cycles. That entitles me to a new stereotyping regime.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll give Vic the last word on <a href=\"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=2994\">this post<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Harry:<\/p>\n<p>Your response reminds me of one of my friends who admits to liking to use hyperbole.  I said to him that an undesirable quality to hyperbole is that motivation for its use is often to represent reality as thus exaggerated, which constitutes misrepresentation and dishonesty.  I think that there is too much misrepresentation and dishonesty by us humans &#8212; especially in politics, which presumably involves subjects of substantial importance to the people in the society in which the politics occur.  Bullshit might make the grass grow green, but I don&#8217;t think it is as beneficial to humans as it is to grass.<\/p>\n<p>Vic<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Having endured thirty years of suffering from political stereotyping first by Democrats who pegged me as the worst kind of Republican then for twenty&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,47,92],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2996"}],"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=2996"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2996\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}