{"id":37325,"date":"2019-01-27T01:00:43","date_gmt":"2019-01-27T06:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=37325"},"modified":"2019-01-01T11:40:00","modified_gmt":"2019-01-01T16:40:00","slug":"qotd-political-tribalism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2019\/01\/27\/qotd-political-tribalism\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: Political tribalism"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>This is one of my emerging rules of politics: if one political group holds a position that does not seem consistent or logical in the context of their other positions, assume they are holding this position because their rival political group has already staked out the opposite side.<\/p>\n<p>Warren Meyer, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.coyoteblog.com\/coyote_blog\/2017\/02\/tribalism.html\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Tribalism&#8221;, <em>Coyote Blog<\/em><\/a>, 2017-02-17.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is one of my emerging rules of politics: if one political group holds a position that does not seem consistent or logical in the context of their other positions, assume they are holding this position because their rival political group has already staked out the opposite side. Warren Meyer, &#8220;Tribalism&#8221;, Coyote Blog, 2017-02-17.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[53,41],"tags":[139],"class_list":["post-37325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-quotations","tag-psychology"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-9I1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37325"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37325\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37326,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37325\/revisions\/37326"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}