{"id":6594,"date":"2012-11-15T09:20:57","date_gmt":"2012-11-15T14:20:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/?p=6594"},"modified":"2012-11-15T09:20:57","modified_gmt":"2012-11-15T14:20:57","slug":"is-your-problem-that-you-dont-get-math-or-you-dont-get-democracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/6594","title":{"rendered":"Is Your Problem That You Don&#8217;t Get Math, Or You Don&#8217;t Get Democracy?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So Romney is complaining that president Obama won because he promised the hoi polloi a lot of gifts. \u00a0 But Romney was no slouch in that department either&#8230;promising even bigger tax cuts to the rich, less oversight of Wall Street and the finance industry. \u00a0 So Obama promised gifts to the 47% and Romney promised gifts to the 1%. \u00a0 So the reason Obama won is 47 is greater then 1. \u00a0 Or in other less cynical words, you win elections by appealing to more voters then the other guy does.<\/p>\n<p>I think the complaint here is that elections are still too fair to suit republicans. \u00a0 Or maybe democracy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So Romney is complaining that president Obama won because he promised the hoi polloi a lot of gifts. \u00a0 But Romney was no slouch in that department either&#8230;promising even bigger tax cuts to the rich, less oversight of Wall Street and the finance industry. \u00a0 So Obama promised gifts to the 47% and Romney promised [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[19,6],"class_list":["post-6594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-the-jackass-chronicles","tag-the-right-wing-mindset"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6594","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6594"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6594\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}