{"id":4358,"date":"2006-10-10T23:43:08","date_gmt":"2006-10-10T23:43:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=4358"},"modified":"2025-09-30T02:59:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T02:59:10","slug":"thomas_sowell_o","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=4358","title":{"rendered":"Thomas Sowell on &#8220;frivolous politics&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here is an interesting column by Thomas Sowell. Don&#8217;t know who Thomas Sowell is? Go here:&nbsp; <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Thomas_Sowell\">Thomas Sowell &#8211; Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s his column:<strong>Frivolous Politics<\/strong>&nbsp; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/printpage\/?url=http:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/articles\/2006\/10\/frivolous_politics.html\">RealClearPolitics &#8211; Articles &#8211; Print Article<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote dir=\"ltr\">\n<p>Even when serious issues are addressed, they can be addressed either seriously or frivolously. If you are content to see life and death issues of war and peace addressed with catch phrases like &quot;chicken hawk&quot; or to see a coalition of nations around the world fighting terrorism referred to as &quot;unilateral&quot; U.S. action because France does not go along, then you are content with frivolity.<\/p>\n<p>You may deserve whatever you get if you vote frivolously in this year&#8217;s election. But surely the next generation, which has no vote, deserves better.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is an interesting column by Thomas Sowell. Don&#8217;t know who Thomas Sowell is? Go here:&nbsp; Thomas Sowell &#8211; Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Here&#8217;s his column:Frivolous Politics&nbsp; RealClearPolitics &#8211; Articles &#8211; Print Article Even when serious issues are addressed, they can be addressed either seriously or frivolously. If you are content to see life and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4358","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4358"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4358\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9565,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4358\/revisions\/9565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}