{"id":1213,"date":"2004-11-01T05:42:44","date_gmt":"2004-11-01T13:42:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/archives\/2004\/11\/01\/both-sides-are-insane-so-shut-up-already\/"},"modified":"2004-11-01T05:42:44","modified_gmt":"2004-11-01T13:42:44","slug":"both-sides-are-insane-so-shut-up-already","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=1213","title":{"rendered":"Both sides are insane, so shut up already"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.randomfate.net\/RF-new\/archives\/001209.html\">Jack at Random Fate<\/a> &#8220;would take it as a great favor if you would please stop posting every instance of insane behavior by someone who is nominally supportive of your political opponents, because YOUR SIDE IS JUST AS BAD.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I haven&#8217;t been completely innocent on this score, I have to admit. Still, Jack&#8217;s point is well taken.<\/p>\n<p>Link via <a href=\"http:\/\/willowgreen.mu.nu\/archives\/052079.php\">Rachel Ann<\/a>, who is not feeling optimistic about post-election America.<\/p>\n<p><b>UPDATE<\/b>: Just to clarify, I was intending for this post to address the &#8220;look at what this individual did&#8221; sort of complaints, not larger-scale issues like organized attempts to reduce ballot access.<\/p>\n<p>That said, I think the widespread and very dishonest Democratic campaign to keep Nader off of the ballot shows that many Democratic Party leaders have the same disdain for democracy that Republicans do. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/meek09282004.html\">What the Democrats did in Oregon<\/a>, for example, should be inexcusable to anyone who isn&#8217;t anti-democracy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jack at Random Fate &#8220;would take it as a great favor if you would please stop posting every instance of insane behavior by someone who is nominally supportive of your political opponents, because YOUR SIDE IS JUST AS BAD.&#8221; I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=1213\">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":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elections-and-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1213","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1213\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}