{"id":49097,"date":"2019-10-23T10:53:52","date_gmt":"2019-10-23T15:53:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=49097"},"modified":"2019-10-23T10:53:56","modified_gmt":"2019-10-23T15:53:56","slug":"politicians-live-in-a-parallel-universe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=49097","title":{"rendered":"Politicians Live in a Parallel Universe"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Politicians Live in a Parallel Universe<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019m convinced of it. Politicians definitely live in a parallel universe, one that could easily be called Bizarro World<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Just read a recent op-ed in the Washington Post<\/em> by Republican Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell. It provides irrefutable proof that these people live in an alternative universe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The title of McConnell\u2019s article is \u201cWithdrawing from Syria Is a Grave Mistake<\/a>.\u201d As you can tell from the title, McConnell, like the good little Republican he is, is an interventionist . That means he believes that the U.S. government should intervene in the affairs of other countries, like with coups, assassinations, invasions, bribery, extortion, sanctions, and embargoes, even while lamenting when foreign governments (e.g., Russia) intervene in the affairs of other countries in the same ways.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Okay, so Republicans are interventionists. That doesn\u2019t necessarily mean that they live in a parallel universe. It just means that they are seriously misguided. The proof that McConnell lives in an alternative universe comes through the analysis he employs to justify his interventionism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Number 1. McConnell says that that interventionism is necessary to combat \u201cIslamic terrorism.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What? Is he kidding? He obviously doesn\u2019t get it. He still believes that the terrorists are targeting America because of their supposed hatred for America\u2019s \u201cfreedom and values.\u201d He still doesn\u2019t understand that it is interventionism itself (which he ardently supports) that is the root cause of the anger and hatred that foreigners have toward the United States. Stop the interventionism and anti-American terrorism dissipates.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In McConnell\u2019s universe, the \u201cwar on terrorism\u201d goes on forever because,  in his mind, the Muslims will hate America forever. The Pentagon and the CIA will just have to continue inflicting death, suffering, and destruction on foreigners on a perpetual basis until the war is \u201cwon,\u201d that is, when all the Muslim terrorists are finally eradicated, which just might be never, especially since the interventionism produces a never-ending stream of anger and hatred toward the United States.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Politicians Live in a Parallel Universe I\u2019m convinced of it. Politicians definitely live in a parallel universe, one that could easily be called Bizarro World. Just read a recent op-ed in the Washington Post by Republican Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell. It provides irrefutable proof that these people live in an alternative universe. The title of McConnell\u2019s article […]<\/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":[11469,2127,16095,522,2304,1577,776,827],"class_list":["post-49097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-future-of-freedom-foundation","tag-interventionism","tag-jacob-g-hornberger","tag-middle-east","tag-mitch-mcconnell","tag-politicians","tag-syria","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49097","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=49097"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49097\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49098,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49097\/revisions\/49098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}