{"id":34162,"date":"2021-09-01T15:36:15","date_gmt":"2021-09-01T20:36:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=34162"},"modified":"2021-09-01T15:36:15","modified_gmt":"2021-09-01T20:36:15","slug":"performance-rage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2021\/09\/01\/performance-rage\/","title":{"rendered":"Performance Rage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jennifer Rubin wants to drag many American voters into, well, <em>adulthood<\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>But mostly, voters need to elect mature adults, not <strong>rage performance artists<\/strong> who use military casualties to demand the president\u2019s impeachment. Voters need to grasp the concept of \u201cno good choices\u201d and \u201copportunity cost.\u201d In other words, we must be better citizens who insist on better leaders \u2014 and then not punish them when they take principled action. <em>[<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/2021\/08\/31\/our-longest-war-is-over-new-challenges-afghanistan-begin\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>WaPo<\/strong><\/a>]<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I like the phrase, which I bolded, but I think we first have to give up our addiction to rage performance artists who are simply there to make money off us audiences by telling their audiences what they want to hear, rather than known truths. Once we learn that rage artists are not authentic, are not often rational, and very often are using emotion to manipulate audiences for fun and profit, then we&#8217;ll learn to recognize politicians, in both parties, who do not appeal to intellect, but rather brazenly manipulate their audiences.<\/p>\n<p>And discard them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jennifer Rubin wants to drag many American voters into, well, adulthood: But mostly, voters need to elect mature adults, not rage performance artists who use military casualties to demand the president\u2019s impeachment. Voters need to grasp the concept of \u201cno good choices\u201d and \u201copportunity cost.\u201d In other words, we must \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2021\/09\/01\/performance-rage\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34162"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34162\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34163,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34162\/revisions\/34163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}