{"id":4379,"date":"2025-10-24T08:53:22","date_gmt":"2025-10-24T12:53:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/?p=4379"},"modified":"2025-10-24T08:53:22","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T12:53:22","slug":"meanwhile-in-small-town-michigan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/?p=4379","title":{"rendered":"Meanwhile in Small Town Michigan"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/JPA520.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"560\" height=\"410\" src=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/JPA520.jpg\" alt=\"Political cartoon: Meanwhile in Small Town Michigan\" class=\"wp-image-4380\" srcset=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/JPA520.jpg 560w, http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/JPA520-300x220.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>It can be very difficult to understand why people would consistently vote against their own best interests \u2014 why they would support policies over and over that create financial hardships. What could possibly be the motivation?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>President Lyndon Johnson in the 1960s, using the vernacular and best example of the time, explained it this way:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;If you can convince the lowest white man he&#8217;s better than the best colored man, he won&#8217;t notice you&#8217;re picking his pockets. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he&#8217;ll empty his pockets for you.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It can be very difficult to understand why people would consistently vote against their own best interests \u2014 why they would support policies over and over that create financial hardships. What could possibly be the motivation? President Lyndon Johnson in the 1960s, using the vernacular and best example of the time, explained it this way: [&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-4379","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\/4379","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=4379"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4379\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4381,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4379\/revisions\/4381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}