{"id":475,"date":"2009-08-11T13:15:19","date_gmt":"2009-08-11T17:15:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=475"},"modified":"2009-08-11T13:15:19","modified_gmt":"2009-08-11T17:15:19","slug":"qotd-obama-critics-suffering-from-false-consciousness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2009\/08\/11\/qotd-obama-critics-suffering-from-false-consciousness\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: Obama critics suffering from &#8220;false consciousness&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>Got that? If you don&#8217;t support Obama, you must be a frustrated, confused halfwit who doesn&#8217;t quite understand why the government would give Americans $4500 for a 2004 Dodge Dakota. As an amateur scholar of Marxism who has a pretty clear understanding of &#8220;what&#8217;s going on,&#8221; Fairey is doubtless referencing Engels&#8217; idea of &#8220;false consciousness,&#8221; but presumes us Obama skeptics are too thick for such profundities.<\/p>\n<p>Michael C. Moynihan, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reason.com\/blog\/show\/135356.html\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Shepard Fairey: Obama Skeptics Suffering from False Consciousness&#8221;, <em>Hit and Run<\/em><\/a>, 2009-08-11<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Got that? If you don&#8217;t support Obama, you must be a frustrated, confused halfwit who doesn&#8217;t quite understand why the government would give Americans $4500 for a 2004 Dodge Dakota. As an amateur scholar of Marxism who has a pretty clear understanding of &#8220;what&#8217;s going on,&#8221; Fairey is doubtless referencing Engels&#8217; idea of &#8220;false consciousness,&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"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":[158,76],"class_list":["post-475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-quotations","tag-barackobama","tag-socialism"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-7F","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475","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=475"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":476,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475\/revisions\/476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}