{"id":4310,"date":"2025-05-30T09:35:37","date_gmt":"2025-05-30T13:35:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/?p=4310"},"modified":"2025-05-30T09:35:37","modified_gmt":"2025-05-30T13:35:37","slug":"a-general-public-that-refuses-to-learn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/?p=4310","title":{"rendered":"A General Public That Refuses to Learn"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/JPA499.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"560\" height=\"415\" src=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/JPA499.jpg\" alt=\"Political Cartoon: A General Public That Refuses to Learn\" class=\"wp-image-4311\" srcset=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/JPA499.jpg 560w, http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/JPA499-300x222.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The trigger for this week&#8217;s cartoon was the story about a &#8220;Cryptocurrency Bill of Rights&#8221; being introduced as legislation in the Michigan House:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>State Representative Bryan Posthumus (R-Rockford) said that bill and others would help Michigan attract the crypto industry to the state.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cCryptocurrency is here to stay. I believe that 20 years from now, it\u2019ll be the foundation of our entire financial industry. And Michigan can be a national leader in that effort,\u201d Posthumus said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Yeah, okay, fine. Go ahead, I suppose. But is anybody else bothered by politicians in full embrace of technologies they know very little about while they are summarily rejecting and defunding the scientific and education communities?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The trigger for this week&#8217;s cartoon was the story about a &#8220;Cryptocurrency Bill of Rights&#8221; being introduced as legislation in the Michigan House: State Representative Bryan Posthumus (R-Rockford) said that bill and others would help Michigan attract the crypto industry to the state. \u201cCryptocurrency is here to stay. I believe that 20 years from now, [&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-4310","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\/4310","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=4310"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4310\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4312,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4310\/revisions\/4312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}