{"version": "1.0", "type": "rich", "title": "Liberals Read, Conservatives Watch TV", "author_name": "kontextmaschine", "author_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "provider_name": "kontextmaschine", "provider_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "url": "https://kontextmaschine.com/post/666888290688991232/", "html": "<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"https://collapsedsquid.tumblr.com/post/666873212652732416/libertarians-are-the-leftists-of-the-right-even\" target=\"_blank\">collapsedsquid</a>:</p><blockquote><p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"https://femmenietzsche.tumblr.com/post/666872010923769857/lol\" target=\"_blank\">femmenietzsche</a>:</p><blockquote><p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"https://argumate.tumblr.com/post/666869349144002560/conservative-media-perfecting-the-infotainment\" target=\"_blank\">argumate</a>:</p><blockquote><p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"https://www.tumblr.com/blog/view/oligopspispopd-deactivated20221/666847577586778112\" target=\"_blank\">oligopspispopd-deactivated20221</a>:</p><blockquote><p class=\"npf_link\" data-npf='{\"type\":\"link\",\"url\":\"https://href.li/?https://richardhanania.substack.com/p/liberals-read-conservatives-watch?r=41s6d&amp;utm_campaign=post&amp;utm_medium=web&amp;utm_source=\",\"display_url\":\"https://href.li/?https://richardhanania.substack.com/p/liberals-read-conservatives-watch?r=41s6d&amp;utm_campaign=post&amp;utm_medium=web&amp;utm_source=\",\"title\":\"Liberals Read, Conservatives Watch TV\",\"description\":\"Explaining why Trump emerged on the right, why only liberals debate filibuster reform, how anti-vax became a partisan issue, how David Shor \",\"author\":\"Richard Hanania\",\"site_name\":\"richardhanania.substack.com\",\"poster\":[{\"media_key\":\"065c9b2145374bf502c3bf17c967dab8:67a986525c440225-26\",\"type\":\"image/jpeg\",\"width\":888,\"height\":1682}]}'><a href=\"https://href.li/?https://richardhanania.substack.com/p/liberals-read-conservatives-watch?r=41s6d&amp;utm_campaign=post&amp;utm_medium=web&amp;utm_source=\" target=\"_blank\">Liberals Read, Conservatives Watch TV</a></p></blockquote><p>\u201cConservative media perfecting the \u201cinfotainment\u201d genre of news commentary brought people into politics that a generation earlier would\u2019ve paid more attention to professional wrestling or monster truck rallies instead. Liberalism has captured a combination of an overeducated class with more desire for status than intellectual curiosity along with mentally ill individuals who in the 1990s might have joined some apolitical subculture instead of becoming passionate about race and gender issues.\u201d</p></blockquote><div class=\"npf_row\"><figure class=\"tmblr-full\" data-orig-height=\"140\" data-orig-width=\"698\"><img src=\"/media/82eae33719e38b8c8b83d2d888c988ddca0eb9f0_c75cbfb4b7e6.png\" data-orig-height=\"140\" data-orig-width=\"698\" srcset=\"/media/4d903184eb75daa8beb53c63bd63099bcfd1f339_9d786887e6cb.png 75w, /media/6840d183c854ed1dfa03ada38713009292fdcdc7_6268e1243155.png 100w, /media/dfc5b7c85161d9441807197b1114bafcf6120634_8e3e94f982be.png 250w, /media/7a34aa63a74b9bdd5036dc08bbd362ba0de7d013_0bad4a21ac4e.png 400w, /media/7cdd49ce5de7b05bb6c2dc784c067c0e4048ea89_4130e109fc72.png 500w, /media/df06937ae077a9ee1c7f393da0fdb67f8f4e9715_6bc6f4848625.png 540w, /media/82eae33719e38b8c8b83d2d888c988ddca0eb9f0_c75cbfb4b7e6.png 640w, /media/d570eb0f4f192b1e6289d95886adc2a5ab55c7e2_be19c766e953.png 698w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 698px) 100vw, 698px\"/></figure></div><p>lol</p></blockquote><blockquote class=\"npf_indented\"><p>Libertarians are the leftists of the right. Even when they appear to  lose political battles, they still mostly win, because their philosophy  inspires a small number of idealistic people who care about ideas, no  matter how broadly unpopular they are, and they keep working after  others have stopped paying attention.   </p></blockquote></blockquote>", "thumbnail_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com/media/82eae33719e38b8c8b83d2d888c988ddca0eb9f0_c75cbfb4b7e6.png", "thumbnail_width": 640, "thumbnail_height": 128}