{"id":42606,"date":"2025-07-16T12:25:46","date_gmt":"2025-07-16T17:25:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=42606"},"modified":"2025-07-16T12:25:46","modified_gmt":"2025-07-16T17:25:46","slug":"a-lesson-for-both-sides","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2025\/07\/16\/a-lesson-for-both-sides\/","title":{"rendered":"A Lesson For Both Sides"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When your tactics depress everyone:<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_42607\" style=\"width: 1230px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/U.S.-Adults-Pride-in-Being-an-American-2001-2025.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-42607\" class=\"wp-image-42607 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/U.S.-Adults-Pride-in-Being-an-American-2001-2025.jpg?resize=800%2C774&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"774\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/U.S.-Adults-Pride-in-Being-an-American-2001-2025.jpg?w=1220&amp;ssl=1 1220w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/U.S.-Adults-Pride-in-Being-an-American-2001-2025.jpg?resize=300%2C290&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/U.S.-Adults-Pride-in-Being-an-American-2001-2025.jpg?resize=1024%2C990&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/U.S.-Adults-Pride-in-Being-an-American-2001-2025.jpg?resize=768%2C743&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/U.S.-Adults-Pride-in-Being-an-American-2001-2025.jpg?resize=150%2C145&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/U.S.-Adults-Pride-in-Being-an-American-2001-2025.jpg?resize=155%2C150&amp;ssl=1 155w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-42607\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/news.gallup.com\/poll\/692150\/american-pride-slips-new-low.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Gallup<\/strong><\/a><\/em><\/p><\/div>\n<p>When the two leading political parties are exhibiting autocratic tendencies, it&#8217;s not surprising that a substantial portion of the electorate is unhappy. However, the Republicans seem a little less conscious of the problem, although cycles of confidence and doubt, correlating to whether the voter prefers the party in power, is well-documented.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_42608\" style=\"width: 1230px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Pride-in-Being-an-American-by-Political-Party-2001-2025.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-42608\" class=\"wp-image-42608 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Pride-in-Being-an-American-by-Political-Party-2001-2025.jpg?resize=800%2C763&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"763\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Pride-in-Being-an-American-by-Political-Party-2001-2025.jpg?w=1220&amp;ssl=1 1220w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Pride-in-Being-an-American-by-Political-Party-2001-2025.jpg?resize=300%2C286&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Pride-in-Being-an-American-by-Political-Party-2001-2025.jpg?resize=1024%2C977&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Pride-in-Being-an-American-by-Political-Party-2001-2025.jpg?resize=768%2C733&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Pride-in-Being-an-American-by-Political-Party-2001-2025.jpg?resize=150%2C143&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Pride-in-Being-an-American-by-Political-Party-2001-2025.jpg?resize=157%2C150&amp;ssl=1 157w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-42608\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/news.gallup.com\/poll\/692150\/american-pride-slips-new-low.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Gallup<\/strong><\/a><\/em><\/p><\/div>\n<p>If the country seems grumpy, here&#8217;s why. Just remember to blame everyone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When your tactics depress everyone: When the two leading political parties are exhibiting autocratic tendencies, it&#8217;s not surprising that a substantial portion of the electorate is unhappy. However, the Republicans seem a little less conscious of the problem, although cycles of confidence and doubt, correlating to whether the voter prefers \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2025\/07\/16\/a-lesson-for-both-sides\/\"> 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-42606","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\/42606","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=42606"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42606\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42609,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42606\/revisions\/42609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}