{"id":3103,"date":"2020-06-10T15:07:49","date_gmt":"2020-06-10T15:07:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2020\/06\/10\/no-fool-like-an-old-fool\/"},"modified":"2020-06-10T15:07:49","modified_gmt":"2020-06-10T15:07:49","slug":"no-fool-like-an-old-fool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2020\/06\/10\/no-fool-like-an-old-fool\/","title":{"rendered":"No Fool Like an Old Fool"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">Ed is an 80-year-old neighbor of mine. We&#39;ve been casual acquaintances for years, running into each other on the trails, exchanging greetings and snatches of conversation. The other day politics came up for the first time, and to my surprise I learned that Ed, originally a Republican, had become an Independent, and was now a Democrat. I said, perhaps with a bit of surprise, &quot;How can you support the Dems, given their current leadership?&quot;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">Ed, the quint<span class=\"text_exposed_show\">essentially nice guy, said, &quot;Let&#39;s stay friends, Bill, and avoid politics.&quot; I agreed that this was the wisest course, and we parted amicably. But my opinion of old Ed had dropped, and I resolved to limit my contact with him, limited as it already was. I knew there was no reaching him.<br \/><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"text_exposed_show\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">What explains the utter political stupidity of otherwise good, intelligent, and basically conservative people? Doesn&#39;t Ed understand what is in his and his family&#39;s interest? <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">One factor is mindless Trump hatred. A second is that old people live in the past and simply cannot see what is happening. A third is a life too much absorbed in the private and the quotidian. Luckily, old Ed probably won&#39;t be around to wake up to the day when the private life is no more.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">No fool like an old fool.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ed is an 80-year-old neighbor of mine. We&#39;ve been casual acquaintances for years, running into each other on the trails, exchanging greetings and snatches of conversation. The other day politics came up for the first time, and to my surprise I learned that Ed, originally a Republican, had become an Independent, and was now a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2020\/06\/10\/no-fool-like-an-old-fool\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;No Fool Like an Old Fool&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[236,39,30,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ageing","category-human-predicament","category-political-psychology","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3103\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}