{"id":4078,"date":"2010-06-17T07:49:26","date_gmt":"2010-06-17T12:49:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=4078"},"modified":"2010-06-17T07:49:26","modified_gmt":"2010-06-17T12:49:26","slug":"the-very-angry-tea-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2010\/06\/17\/the-very-angry-tea-party\/","title":{"rendered":"The Very Angry Tea Party"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Tea Party Anger\" href=\"http:\/\/opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com\/2010\/06\/13\/the-very-angry-tea-party\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>This article<\/strong><\/a> &#8220;explains&#8221; the anger of the Tea Party adherents. This also explains why libertarians are so firm in their belief that the social world can be made to work in ways that it clearly does not.<\/p>\n<p>As one example from the article, we may all be angry that people and institutions who behave irresponsibly in the economic sector can drag down the whole economy, even those who are trying to act responsibly.\u00a0 Even the irresponsible can be angry at this fact of life.<\/p>\n<p>The Tea Party people firmly believe that by eliminating certain institutions that this interdependence can be eliminated.\u00a0 Some of the rest of us understand that this interdependence is an essential part of modern society and we have to come to terms with it.<\/p>\n<p>I draw a corollary from this article.\u00a0 There will be a large segment who will not understand the argument presented in this article.\u00a0 We must come to terms with that fact of life, too.\u00a0 Yet, I still write this blog. How odd.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This article &#8220;explains&#8221; the anger of the Tea Party adherents. This also explains why libertarians are so firm in their belief that the social world can be made to work in ways that it clearly does not. As one example from the article, we may all be angry that people and institutions who behave irresponsibly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-4078","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-stevegsposts","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4078","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4078"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4078\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4079,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4078\/revisions\/4079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}