{"id":28482,"date":"2016-12-31T18:20:43","date_gmt":"2017-01-01T02:20:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/?p=28482"},"modified":"2017-03-04T09:29:32","modified_gmt":"2017-03-04T17:29:32","slug":"how-american-politics-went-insane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/archive\/2016\/12\/how-american-politics-went-insane","title":{"rendered":"\u21d7 How American Politics Went Insane"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/magazine\/archive\/2016\/07\/how-american-politics-went-insane\/485570\/\">How American Politics Went Insane<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Neurotic hatred of the political class is the country\u2019s last universally acceptable form of bigotry.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>If you&#8217;re interested in how the American political system got to where it&#8217;s at today, this is a great catch-me-up. I had never really considered the importance of middlemen, hierarchy, pork barrel spending, and other elements of what people disdainfully refer to as &#8220;the machinery of politics&#8221; when it comes to actually getting things done in Washington. We want to replace establishment insiders because we aren&#8217;t happy with their effectiveness, but there is a very good chance inexperienced outsiders will be much, much worse.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How American Politics Went Insane &#8220;Neurotic hatred of the political class is the country\u2019s last universally acceptable form of bigotry.&#8221; If you&#8217;re interested in how the American political system got to where it&#8217;s at today, this is a great catch-me-up. I had never really considered the importance of middlemen, hierarchy, pork barrel spending, and other [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[495,501],"tags":[494],"class_list":["post-28482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links","category-politics","tag-instapaper"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28482","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28482"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28482\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}