{"id":2388,"date":"2003-05-07T12:30:07","date_gmt":"2003-05-07T19:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mossback.org\/archives\/2003\/05\/great-divide\/"},"modified":"2003-05-07T12:30:07","modified_gmt":"2003-05-07T19:30:07","slug":"great-divide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2003\/05\/07\/great-divide\/","title":{"rendered":"Great Divide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tThis entry by <a title=\"Michael J. Totten\" href=\"http:\/\/michaeltotten.blogspot.com\/2003_05_04_michaeltotten_archive.html#200247952\">Michael J. Totten<\/a> on the difference between libs and cons is an example of blogging at its best:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Everybody needs to get out of their rut. Start small.<\/p>\n<p>Liberals: Read about Iran. Don&#8217;t just read about American policy there, read about Iran. Find out what happens when America isn&#8217;t looking. <\/p>\n<p>Conservatives: If you live in a major city, next time the Persian film festival comes to town, buy yourself a ticket. Some of the best films in the world are made in that country. The outside world is greater than the sum of its threats.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Thesis is that libs see everything in relation to America, and cons see everything in relation to the past, more or less. My addition is that modern education aims to turn out libs, while failing to educate. Cons are either very well-educated or not educated at all, and that&#8217;s how they escape the conditioning.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This entry by Michael J. Totten on the difference between libs and cons is an example of blogging at its best: Everybody needs to get out of their rut. Start small. Liberals: Read about Iran. Don&#8217;t just read about American policy there, read about Iran. Find out what happens when America isn&#8217;t looking. Conservatives: If &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2003\/05\/07\/great-divide\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Great Divide&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbifyw-Cw","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2388\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}