{"id":54423,"date":"2024-05-03T05:59:26","date_gmt":"2024-05-03T12:59:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=54423"},"modified":"2024-05-02T15:00:37","modified_gmt":"2024-05-02T22:00:37","slug":"open-thread-may-3-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2024\/05\/03\/open-thread-may-3-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread May 3, 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, there was a great deal of floom running through the news. I was only going to use two articles, but I added Reich because he at least gives us some ideas about what we should do in the face of such doom and gloom.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/marytrump.substack.com\/p\/are-you-as-tired-of-him-as-i-am\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mary Trump<\/a>&#8216;s writing here is factful (in the sense of full of facts &#8211; there are a lot) and perceptive. She does touch on a lot that we already know. but if you want to skip all or prts, pleas skip to the end. There&#8217;s a zinger in her conclusion.<\/p>\n<p>I have read about <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantablackstar.com\/2024\/04\/29\/video-shows-new-york-county-d-a-cursing-out-cops\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">this incident<\/a> &#8211; maybe you have too &#8211; but this is a view of it that you may not have read (though you may have thought it, or at least some of it.)<\/p>\n<p>Robert Reich writes about <a href=\"https:\/\/robertreich.substack.com\/p\/conflict-discord-and-the-2024-election\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">emotions and politics<\/a>. He doesn&#8217;t say this, but I want to add it &#8211; stirring up emotions may well increase turnout. But when those emotions are in response to lies, that&#8217;s not the kind of turnout whichimproves out government, or dstrengthens outr democracy. There is plenty in this election year to rationally be afraid of &#8211; but most of the actual fear that grips voters is the irrational fears stirred up by MAGA. I&#8217;ve said this before &#8211; Trump** promises violence if he loses. And nhe may well follow trough &#8211; he&#8217;s done it before. But, if he wins, he will stir up just as much violence, or probably more violence, and there will be no one to protect us.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/v9Itn8-S0bA?si=URo8CYf6PsJSOj84\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tNJJwU9O_ME?si=15NmE3VBxrZqZ1Md\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-54425\" src=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/like-it-is.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"770\" height=\"550\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/like-it-is.jpg 770w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/like-it-is-300x214.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/like-it-is-150x107.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/like-it-is-768x549.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 770px) 100vw, 770px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, there was a great deal of floom running through the news. I was only going to use two articles, but I added Reich because he at least gives us some ideas about what we should do in the face of such doom and gloom. Mary Trump&#8216;s writing here is factful (in the sense of <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2024\/05\/03\/open-thread-may-3-2024\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":53906,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,3,5],"tags":[4355,4553,4111,3751,3722,4753],"class_list":["post-54423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","tag-animals","tag-campaign-2026","tag-cats","tag-gop-insanity","tag-impeachment","tag-privilege","category-35-id","category-3-id","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54423","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54423"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54423\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}