{"id":21151,"date":"2016-06-21T19:07:48","date_gmt":"2016-06-22T00:07:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=21151"},"modified":"2016-06-21T19:07:48","modified_gmt":"2016-06-22T00:07:48","slug":"in-praise-of-ignorant-politicians-unschooled-in-beltway-delusions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=21151","title":{"rendered":"In Praise Of Ignorant Politicians\u2026..Unschooled In Beltway Delusions"},"content":{"rendered":"<header>\n<h3 class=\"entry-title\"><a href=\"http:\/\/davidstockmanscontracorner.com\/whats-wrong-with-these-people\/\">In Praise Of Ignorant Politicians\u2026..Unschooled In Beltway Delusions<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<div class=\"pf-content\">\n<p>The Imperial City\u00a0deserves to be sacked by insurgent politicians of the very ignorant kind. That is, outsiders\u00a0unschooled in its specious groupthink and\u00a0destructive delusions of grandeur.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s why Donald Trump\u2019s challenge to the\u00a0beltway\u2019s permanent bipartisan\u00a0ruling class is so welcome. He is largely ignorant of\u00a0the neocon and war hawk\u00a0catechisms and sophistries propounded by joints like\u00a0the Council on Foreign Relations.<\/p>\n<p>But owing to his overweening self-confidence, he doesn\u2019t hesitate to\u00a0lob foreign policy\u00a0audibles, as it were,\u00a0from the Presidential campaign\u2019s\u00a0line of\u00a0scrimmage.<\/p>\n<p>It is\u00a0these unpredictable outbursts of truth and common sense, not his\u00a0bombast, bad manners and bigotry, that has the Acela Corridor in high dudgeon. The Donald\u2019s establishment bettors\u00a0are deathly\u00a0afraid that he might confirm to the unwashed electorate of Flyover America what it already suspects.<\/p>\n<p>Namely, that Washington\u2019s hyper-interventionism and ungodly expensive\u00a0imperial footprint all around the globe has nothing at all to do with their security and safety, even as it saddles them with massive public\u00a0debts and the threat of jihadist\u00a0blowback to the homeland.<\/p>\n<p>For Trump\u2019s part, the fact is that most of his\u00a0wild pitches\u2014\u2014the Mexican\u00a0Wall, the Muslim ban, waterboarding\u2014-are basically excesses of campaign rhetoric that would likely get fashioned into something far more palatable if he were ever\u00a0in a position to govern. By contrast, the fundamental consensus of our bipartisan rulers\u00a0is a mortal\u00a0threat to peace, prosperity and democratic rule.<\/p>\n<p>Worse still, the beltway consensus\u00a0is so entombed in groupthink that the machinery grinds forward from one folly to the next with\u00a0hardly a peep of dissent.\u00a0Nothing could\u00a0better illustrate that\u00a0deleterious dynamic, in fact,\u00a0than the\u00a0NATO warships currently\u00a0trolling around the Black Sea.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Praise Of Ignorant Politicians\u2026..Unschooled In Beltway Delusions The Imperial City\u00a0deserves to be sacked by insurgent politicians of the very ignorant kind. That is, outsiders\u00a0unschooled in its specious groupthink and\u00a0destructive delusions of grandeur. That\u2019s why Donald Trump\u2019s challenge to the\u00a0beltway\u2019s permanent bipartisan\u00a0ruling class is so welcome. He is largely ignorant of\u00a0the neocon and war hawk\u00a0catechisms [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[953,2120,7844,865],"class_list":["post-21151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-council-on-foreign-relations","tag-david-stockman","tag-donald-trump","tag-washington"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21151"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21151\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21152,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21151\/revisions\/21152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}