{"id":44476,"date":"2019-03-14T09:36:15","date_gmt":"2019-03-14T14:36:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=44476"},"modified":"2019-03-14T09:36:16","modified_gmt":"2019-03-14T14:36:16","slug":"conservatism%ef%bb%bf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=44476","title":{"rendered":"Conservatism\ufeff"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theautomaticearth.com\/2019\/03\/conservatism\/\">Conservatism<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wikiart.org\/en\/rene-magritte\/personal-values-1952\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/3r8md7174doo44lgpk3kou79-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/MagrittePersonal-values-1952.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/a><figcaption>Ren\u00e9 Magritte\u00a0<strong>Personal values<\/strong>\u00a01952<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Commenting on my own essays has never been my favorite activity, because before you know it you land into Russian doll territory. But a few recent comments from readers have me rethinking that, for once.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Of course I understand that my expressed views over the past two years and change on the era of Donald Trump and his presidency do not please everyone out there, whether they\u2019re long time Automatic Earth readers or new to the site. It\u2019s just that a surprising -to me- number of people let their thoughts and opinions be shaped by media that primarily follow the color of politics and money, not objective facts.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Or perhaps it shouldn\u2018t be all that surprising, given the amount of attention the mainstream media still manages to gather. Then again, if the MSM would have been right on more issues, there would never have been a place for the Automatic Earth and many other \u2018alternative\u2019 media sources. So yeah, I\u2019m a bit of two minds on that.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What I am sure about is that I don\u2019t think the advent of Donald Trump has been the main event since 2016, I have very few illusions about US politics. For me the big story has been how the media has shifted from reporting the news to manufacturing it. I\u2019m seeing the Russiagate narrative falling apart in real time right now and I think: I saw that coming, because none of all those collusion stories were based on facts to begin with.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And I\u2019ve said exactly that for two years now as well. It started off with supporting their favorite candidate, who was a shoe-in anyway, then it turned into being angry when she lost, and it ended up with figuring out that denouncing Trump ten times a day was a goldmine that could save entire papers and TV channels, because Americans are addicted to scandals, even if they\u2019re invented and\/or inconsequential.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Conservatism Commenting on my own essays has never been my favorite activity, because before you know it you land into Russian doll territory. But a few recent comments from readers have me rethinking that, for once.&nbsp; Of course I understand that my expressed views over the past two years and change on the era of [&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":[6],"tags":[24665,157,19759,10999,24666,4728,3180,584,24568,24667,660,13924,24668,5177],"class_list":["post-44476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-business-model","tag-conservatism","tag-gun-control","tag-health-care","tag-maga","tag-msm","tag-narrative","tag-obama","tag-ocasio","tag-old-gray-lady","tag-putin","tag-raul-ilargi-meijer","tag-reporting","tag-the-automatic-earth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44476","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=44476"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44476\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44477,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44476\/revisions\/44477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}