{"id":4934,"date":"2010-10-29T19:07:47","date_gmt":"2010-10-30T00:07:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=4934"},"modified":"2010-10-29T19:10:24","modified_gmt":"2010-10-30T00:10:24","slug":"it%e2%80%99s-the-stupidity-stupid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2010\/10\/29\/it%e2%80%99s-the-stupidity-stupid\/","title":{"rendered":"It\u2019s the Stupidity, Stupid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>David Sirota authored the posting <a title=\"David Sirota posting\" href=\"http:\/\/www.truthdig.com\/report\/item\/its_the_stupidity_stupid_20101028\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>It\u2019s the Stupidity, Stupid<\/strong><\/a>. Thanks to my friend MardyS for linking to this on his Facebook page.\u00a0 It is the perfect response to my posting <strong><a rel=\"bookmark\" href=\"..\/2010\/10\/29\/poll-americans-dont-know-economy-expanded-with-tax-cuts\/\">Poll: Americans Don\u2019t Know Economy Expanded With Tax  Cuts<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Sirota writes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>What could cause this intensifying politics of free-market  fundamentalism at the very historical moment that proves the failure of  such an ideology? Two new academic studies suggest all roads lead to  ignorance.<\/p>\n<p>The first, by Harvard\u2019s Michael Norton and Duke\u2019s Dan Ariely, finds that  Americans grossly underestimate how much inequality our economy  produces.<\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;the most powerful factor in our economic illiteracy is found in the  other new academic report\u2014the one examining our innate denial reflex.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David Sirota authored the posting It\u2019s the Stupidity, Stupid. Thanks to my friend MardyS for linking to this on his Facebook page.\u00a0 It is the perfect response to my posting Poll: Americans Don\u2019t Know Economy Expanded With Tax Cuts. Sirota writes: What could cause this intensifying politics of free-market fundamentalism at the very historical moment [&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-4934","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\/4934","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=4934"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4934\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4938,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4934\/revisions\/4938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}