{"id":40697,"date":"2019-11-22T01:00:20","date_gmt":"2019-11-22T06:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=40697"},"modified":"2019-11-21T09:25:26","modified_gmt":"2019-11-21T14:25:26","slug":"qotd-politicians-like-scorpions-cannot-change-their-nature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2019\/11\/22\/qotd-politicians-like-scorpions-cannot-change-their-nature\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: Politicians, like scorpions, cannot change their nature"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left; padding: 0px 15px 0px 0px\" src=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-48672\" srcset=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png 400w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400-50x50.png 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a>Whatever you think of current immigration policy (too lax, too tight, just right) and whatever you think of current policies controlling Americans&#8217; access to guns (too lax, too tight, just right), surely you must be amused \u2013 if only wistfully \u2013 by those who complain, whenever some tragedy occurs, that politicians &#8220;politicize&#8221; that tragedy. Feigning surprise about politicians politicizing tragedies makes no more sense than feigning surprise that dogs bark at mailmen: it&#8217;s in the nature of the beasts. (I don&#8217;t mean by this comparison to insult man&#8217;s best friend. Dogs&#8217; instinct to bark is typically beneficial to humanity; politicians&#8217; instinct to politicize anything that moves is typically harmful to humanity.)<\/p>\n<p>Don Boudreaux, <a href=\"http:\/\/cafehayek.com\/2017\/11\/dogs-bark-3.html\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Dogs Bark!&#8221;, <em>Caf\u00e9 Hayek<\/em><\/a>, 2017-11-02.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whatever you think of current immigration policy (too lax, too tight, just right) and whatever you think of current policies controlling Americans&#8217; access to guns (too lax, too tight, just right), surely you must be amused \u2013 if only wistfully \u2013 by those who complain, whenever some tragedy occurs, that politicians &#8220;politicize&#8221; that tragedy. Feigning [&hellip;]<\/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":[28,53,41],"tags":[49,554,72],"class_list":["post-40697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media","category-politics","category-quotations","tag-guns","tag-immigration","tag-pets"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-aAp","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40697","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=40697"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40697\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52911,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40697\/revisions\/52911"}],"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=40697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}