{"id":20658,"date":"2025-12-06T15:55:29","date_gmt":"2025-12-06T15:55:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=20658"},"modified":"2025-12-06T15:55:30","modified_gmt":"2025-12-06T15:55:30","slug":"the-psychopath-problem-in-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=20658","title":{"rendered":"The Psychopath Problem in Politics"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Much of politics and punditry is performative lies. I&#8217;m not sure why these people think their falsity is okay, but they gain money, fame, and power with their bullshit.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Psychopath Problem in Politics\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Vjx1ZANCTG8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Much of politics and punditry is performative lies. I&#8217;m not sure why these people think their falsity is okay, but they gain money, fame, and power with their bullshit. <\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Vjx1ZANCTG8<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[820,1107,132,323,509,1330],"class_list":["post-20658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-bullshit","tag-liars","tag-lies","tag-misleading","tag-politics","tag-psychology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20658","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20658"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20658\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20659,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20658\/revisions\/20659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}