{"id":4909,"date":"2015-02-17T23:55:37","date_gmt":"2015-02-18T03:55:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.urbin.net\/blog\/?p=4909"},"modified":"2015-02-17T23:55:37","modified_gmt":"2015-02-18T03:55:37","slug":"a-leftist-gets-mugged-by-reality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/politics\/a-leftist-gets-mugged-by-reality\/","title":{"rendered":"A leftist gets mugged by reality"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve often said that reality is not a strong point of the left. \u00a0Their narrative is much more important to them than actual facts.<\/p>\n

This refusal to accept reality can produce painful results. \u00a0Today’s example (by way of Moe Lane<\/a> & the Instapundit<\/a>)<\/p>\n

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It was pointed out, repeatedly, by people who actually read the so-called “Affordable Care Act”, that it was a\u00a0disaster waiting to happen. \u00a0People were going to lose coverage, prices would go up, and access to actual affordable health care would decline.<\/p>\n

Rather than face these facts that inconveniently disagreed with their socialist narrative, the collective left called those who actually read the bill, “racists,” which was certainly easier than reading the bill for themselves.<\/p>\n

Now, not only does this leftist idiot not have health care coverage, she is going to get fined by the government she helped to elect, for not having it. \u00a0In addition, she inflicted this disaster of a law on millions of Americans who didn’t want it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve often said that reality is not a strong point of the left. \u00a0Their narrative is much more important to them than actual facts. This refusal to accept reality can produce painful results. \u00a0Today’s example (by way of Moe Lane & the Instapundit)   It was pointed out, repeatedly, by people who actually read the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[38,52,19,20],"tags":[140,251,262,414,480,486,577,621,839],"class_list":["post-4909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barking-moonbats","category-bho-politics","category-politics","category-progressives","tag-barack-obama","tag-culture-of-corruption","tag-democrat","tag-incompetent","tag-leftist-hypocrisy","tag-liberal","tag-obamacare","tag-politics","tag-worst-president-ever"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pab4zg-1hb","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4909","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4909"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4909\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}