{"id":42973,"date":"2025-09-20T10:47:24","date_gmt":"2025-09-20T15:47:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=42973"},"modified":"2025-09-22T20:12:14","modified_gmt":"2025-09-23T01:12:14","slug":"im-so-much-important-than-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2025\/09\/20\/im-so-much-important-than-you\/","title":{"rendered":"I’m So Much More Important Than You"},"content":{"rendered":"

Steve Benen expresses discomfort<\/a> at the self-importance of the conservatives when it comes to rule of law:<\/p>\n

Not surprisingly, voters on the left weren\u2019t exactly eager to endorse indifference to the rule of law: 11% of Democratic voters and an identical number of voters who describe themselves as liberals said presidents should put side rules and laws.<\/p>\n

But on the right, it was a different story: 36% of Republican voters, 38% of voters who backed Donald Trump and 40% of \u201cvery conservative\u201d voters all expressed support for a president \u201cwilling to break some rules and laws to set things right.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\"\"<\/a>I use self-importance<\/em> because these conservatives consider their views to be more important than the rule of law, of their fellow, and co-equal, citizens.<\/p>\n

And, oddly enough, it reminds me of the behavior of the transgender advocates<\/em>. As I’ve mentioned before, their failure was to not put their issue, and their views on it, up for debate, but rather impose their views, via the law, on their fellow citizens.<\/p>\n

This is in violation of one of the most basic tenets of liberal democracy, that of not imposing arbitrary regulations sans debate upon the citizenry<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The arrogance of both sides continue, to the great destruction of the American polity. Will the independents figure it out and force it out? How about MAGA<\/strong>, which must seek redemption?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Steve Benen expresses discomfort at the self-importance of the conservatives when it comes to rule of law: Not surprisingly, voters on the left weren\u2019t exactly eager to endorse indifference to the rule of law: 11% of Democratic voters and an identical number of voters who describe themselves as liberals said \u2026 Continue reading → <\/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-42973","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\/42973","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=42973"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42973\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42988,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42973\/revisions\/42988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}