{"id":9089,"date":"2018-11-18T09:17:40","date_gmt":"2018-11-18T14:17:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/?p=9089"},"modified":"2018-11-16T16:36:58","modified_gmt":"2018-11-16T21:36:58","slug":"zero-sum-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/2018\/11\/18\/zero-sum-politics\/","title":{"rendered":"Zero-Sum Politics"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.usnews.com\/opinion\/thomas-jefferson-street\/articles\/2017-09-14\/donald-trump-and-the-rise-of-zero-sum-politics\">Liberals see &#8220;rights&#8221; as something of a public good<\/a> (like national defense or a scenic view), whose consumption by one individual doesn&#8217;t diminish consumption by others. In fact, they believe that all Americans are thereby made better off.<\/p>\n<p>In the conservative version of identity politics, however, everything&#8217;s a zero-sum game: Freedom from discrimination on the basis of race, sex, religion or other characteristics doesn&#8217;t unleash greater human potential to the benefit of all. Instead, it&#8217;s a step backward for everyone else, part of the never-ending war of all against all. Your gain is necessarily my loss.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In a world where one sees others gaining with a zero-sum game view, one should have fear for oneself, family, and friends. When the government encourages certain behaviors, they are picking winners and losers. Fear of being the loser becomes a real thing.<\/p>\n<p>Whereas, with the non-zero-sum point of view, when the government encourages certain behaviors, it lifts up the lowest to improve the environment for everyone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Liberals see &#8220;rights&#8221; as something of a public good (like national defense or a scenic view), whose consumption by one individual doesn&#8217;t diminish consumption by others. In fact, they believe that all Americans are thereby made better off. In the conservative version of identity politics, however, everything&#8217;s a zero-sum game: Freedom from discrimination on the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"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,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","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":[1238,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nationalism-2","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1rUBW-2mB","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9089","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9089"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9089\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}