{"id":11974,"date":"2010-12-21T13:42:11","date_gmt":"2010-12-21T20:42:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/slowpokecomics.com\/blog\/?p=311"},"modified":"2010-12-21T13:42:11","modified_gmt":"2010-12-21T20:42:11","slug":"this-week%e2%80%99s-cartoon-%e2%80%9cthe-off-center-center%e2%80%9d","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=11974","title":{"rendered":"This Week\u2019s Cartoon: \u201cThe Off-Center Center\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.slowpokecomics.com\/strips\/offcenter.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" title=\"The Off-Center Center\" src=\"http:\/\/www.slowpokecomics.com\/strips\/offcenter.png\" alt=\"Comic about bipartisanship and centrism\" width=\"200\" \/><\/a>As <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/12\/20\/opinion\/20krugman.html\" >Paul Krugman<\/a> pointed out yesterday, the more market fundamentalism fails, the more vigorously it seems to be embraced. Bipartisan compromise now consists of agreement between the center-right and off-the-deep-end psychocapitalists. I honestly don&#8217;t see a way out of this self-defeating feedback loop given our current political environment. <\/p>\n<p>Before I wrote this cartoon, I was actually thinking of\u00a0doing one that showed Republicans praising FDR the way Obama has praised Reagan,\u00a0 just as Krugman mentioned (hey, great minds think alike!), to show how ridiculously improbable that would be. Also, is it just me, or shouldn&#8217;t more people be freaking out about Ron &#8220;End the Fed&#8221; Paul overseeing the Fed? I dunno, maybe not enough Americans understand what the Fed is.<\/p>\n<p>On another note, all I want for Christmas is for you to join the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/SlowpokeComics\" >Slowpoke Facebook Krew<\/a>, or follow me on <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/slowpokejen\" >Twitter<\/a>. If you don&#8217;t already do so, of course.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As Paul Krugman pointed out yesterday, the more market fundamentalism fails, the more vigorously it seems to be embraced. Bipartisan compromise now consists of agreement between the center-right and off-the-deep-end psychocapitalists. I honestly don&#8217;t see a way out of this self-defeating feedback loop given our current political environment.<br \/>\nBefore I wrote this cartoon, I was [&#8230;] <a href=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=11974\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":48,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[128],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated-feeds"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11974","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/48"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11974"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11974\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}