{"id":87002,"date":"2016-02-01T15:43:33","date_gmt":"2016-02-01T23:43:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=87002"},"modified":"2016-02-01T15:43:33","modified_gmt":"2016-02-01T23:43:33","slug":"marty-kaplan-the-idiocy-of-the-iowa-caucuses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=87002","title":{"rendered":"Marty Kaplan: The idiocy of the Iowa caucuses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.jewishjournal.com\/marty_kaplan\/article\/the_idiocy_of_the_iowa_caucuses\">Marty Kaplan writes<\/a>: &#8220;We\u2019re suckers for the patriotic mythology and gauzy imagery of town halls and high school gyms where candidates get grilled and caucus-goers speak up and get counted. But the power of Iowa and New Hampshire isn\u2019t a reward for the superior candidate-scrutinizing skills that their citizens inherently possess; it\u2019s a consequence of state party officials flexing their muscles over the calendar.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Ever get the sense this guy just doesn&#8217;t like America, particularly middle America? Jews like Marty Kaplan fear populism and nativism and nationalism. They prefer government by elites. <\/p>\n<p>Ever notice that elites tend to think America works much better than ordinary people think? Because the game is rigged against the ordinary hard-working America who doesn&#8217;t want welfare and doesn&#8217;t want more immigration. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marty Kaplan writes: &#8220;We\u2019re suckers for the patriotic mythology and gauzy imagery of town halls and high school gyms where candidates get grilled and caucus-goers speak up and get counted. But the power of Iowa and New Hampshire isn\u2019t a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=87002\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29615],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nationalism"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87002","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=87002"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87002\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87003,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87002\/revisions\/87003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=87002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=87002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=87002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}