{"id":3779,"date":"2022-04-01T07:03:12","date_gmt":"2022-04-01T11:03:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/?p=3779"},"modified":"2022-04-01T07:03:12","modified_gmt":"2022-04-01T11:03:12","slug":"dont-ruin-my-talking-points-with-reality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/?p=3779","title":{"rendered":"Don&#8217;t Ruin My Talking Points with Reality"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/JPA336.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"560\" height=\"413\" src=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/JPA336.jpg\" alt=\"Don't Ruin My Talking Points with Reality\" class=\"wp-image-3780\" srcset=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/JPA336.jpg 560w, http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/JPA336-300x221.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Is it just me or is the whole &#8220;government always bad&#8221; schtick feel played out? I mean, it seems very much like the vaudeville &#8220;take my wife&#8230;please&#8221; humor that made its way into the TV sitcoms \u2014 maybe it was funny the 50s and 60s, but it&#8217;s certainly not today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ronald Regan had a nice run with all this 40 years ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>&#8220;The nine most terrifying words in the English language are: I&#8217;m from the Government, and I&#8217;m here to help.&#8221; &lt;insert laugh track><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>The thing is, it was hyperbole, a joke to get his point across, which was the desire for a more limited role of government. Now folks (including the entire Republican Party) seem to interpret &#8220;government always bad&#8221; literally, which has taken it from kinda corny to fundamentally dangerous.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Let&#8217;s get on with the reality that our government does have a role. We&#8217;ve been blessed with this constitutional republic, and however imperfect, it&#8217;s ours to use to our advantage (or ours to ruin).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is it just me or is the whole &#8220;government always bad&#8221; schtick feel played out? I mean, it seems very much like the vaudeville &#8220;take my wife&#8230;please&#8221; humor that made its way into the TV sitcoms \u2014 maybe it was funny the 50s and 60s, but it&#8217;s certainly not today. Ronald Regan had a nice [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,13,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-editorial-cartoon","category-michiganpress-org","category-michiganradio-org"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3779","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3779"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3779\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3781,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3779\/revisions\/3781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}