{"id":10204,"date":"2017-03-28T22:50:00","date_gmt":"2017-03-29T02:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/?p=10204"},"modified":"2017-03-28T22:50:00","modified_gmt":"2017-03-29T02:50:00","slug":"political-positive-thinking-is-a-slaves-virtue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/2017\/03\/28\/political-positive-thinking-is-a-slaves-virtue\/","title":{"rendered":"Political Positive Thinking is a Slave&#8217;s Virtue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/In-politics-\u201cpositive-thinking\u201d-is-often-a-slave\u2019s-virtue-something-people-do-to-delude-themselves-about-the-burdens-and-chains-being-placed-upon-them-FINAL.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10205\" src=\"http:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/In-politics-\u201cpositive-thinking\u201d-is-often-a-slave\u2019s-virtue-something-people-do-to-delude-themselves-about-the-burdens-and-chains-being-placed-upon-them-FINAL.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"587\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/In-politics-\u201cpositive-thinking\u201d-is-often-a-slave\u2019s-virtue-something-people-do-to-delude-themselves-about-the-burdens-and-chains-being-placed-upon-them-FINAL.jpg 700w, https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/In-politics-\u201cpositive-thinking\u201d-is-often-a-slave\u2019s-virtue-something-people-do-to-delude-themselves-about-the-burdens-and-chains-being-placed-upon-them-FINAL-150x126.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This quote is from Attention Deficit Democracy (Palgrave, 2006).\u00a0 I trimmed it slightly from the book version: &#8220;In politics, &#8216;positive thinking&#8217; is often a slave\u2019s virtue, something people do to delude themselves about the burdens and chains being placed upon them.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The background &amp; text layout thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/canva.com\">Canva.com<\/a> design software site.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s an earlier version which probably did not work as well &#8211;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/In-politics-\u201cpositive-thinking\u201d-is-often-a-slave\u2019s-virtue-something-people-do-to-delude-themselves-about-the-burdens-and-chains-being-placed-upon-them.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-10207\" src=\"http:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/In-politics-\u201cpositive-thinking\u201d-is-often-a-slave\u2019s-virtue-something-people-do-to-delude-themselves-about-the-burdens-and-chains-being-placed-upon-them.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"545\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/In-politics-\u201cpositive-thinking\u201d-is-often-a-slave\u2019s-virtue-something-people-do-to-delude-themselves-about-the-burdens-and-chains-being-placed-upon-them.jpg 700w, https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/In-politics-\u201cpositive-thinking\u201d-is-often-a-slave\u2019s-virtue-something-people-do-to-delude-themselves-about-the-burdens-and-chains-being-placed-upon-them-150x126.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This quote is from Attention Deficit Democracy (Palgrave, 2006).\u00a0 I trimmed it slightly from the book version: &#8220;In politics, &#8216;positive thinking&#8217; is often a slave\u2019s virtue, something people do to delude themselves about the burdens and chains being placed upon them.&#8221; The background &amp; text layout thanks to Canva.com design software site. 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