{"id":1529,"date":"2021-08-19T12:16:10","date_gmt":"2021-08-19T12:16:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/?p=1529"},"modified":"2021-08-19T12:16:10","modified_gmt":"2021-08-19T12:16:10","slug":"prediction-bidens-stumbles-will-increase-popularity-of-the-election-was-stolen-perspective","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/2021\/08\/19\/prediction-bidens-stumbles-will-increase-popularity-of-the-election-was-stolen-perspective\/","title":{"rendered":"Prediction: Biden&#8217;s stumbles will increase popularity of &#8220;the election was stolen&#8221; perspective"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It might be nice to think that when people are presented with some idea &#8212; e.g., that the presidential election wasn&#8217;t fair &#8212; that they would listen to the evidence and make a decision based on sound reasoning. <\/p>\n<p>We all know that&#8217;s not true. People&#8217;s opinions on the fairness of the election had more to do with who they wanted to win than with any objective analysis of the facts. First of all, nobody&#8217;s objective. Second, nobody has all the facts. Or even most of them. <\/p>\n<p>As people continue to sour on Biden, the idea that the presidential election might not have been fair will become more popular. <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not saying these two things are connected in a rational way. Biden&#8217;s bumbling, partisan, incompetent presidency doesn&#8217;t say anything about the fairness of the election. But the more people grow to dislike Biden, the more they&#8217;ll listen to arguments the election was stolen. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It might be nice to think that when people are presented with some idea &#8212; e.g., that the presidential election wasn&#8217;t fair &#8212; that they would listen to the evidence and make a decision based on sound reasoning. We all know that&#8217;s not true. People&#8217;s opinions on the fairness of the election had more to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/2021\/08\/19\/prediction-bidens-stumbles-will-increase-popularity-of-the-election-was-stolen-perspective\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Prediction: Biden&#8217;s stumbles will increase popularity of &#8220;the election was stolen&#8221; perspective&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1529"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1529\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1530,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1529\/revisions\/1530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}