{"id":22286,"date":"2023-10-16T11:04:06","date_gmt":"2023-10-16T15:04:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/?p=22286"},"modified":"2023-10-16T23:39:38","modified_gmt":"2023-10-17T03:39:38","slug":"why-conservatives-dont-understand-shows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2023\/10\/why-conservatives-dont-understand-shows\/","title":{"rendered":"Why conservatives don&#8217;t understand TV shows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Steve Shives talks about how conservatives don&#8217;t understand the shows they watch (or music they listen to). He demonstrates that conservatives miss the point of <strong>All in the Family<\/strong> and <strong>The Colbert Report<\/strong> &#8212; and sometimes even <strong>Star Trek<\/strong>. Why is this? He says:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>conservatives assume that their opinions represent the consensus, ie. other people see the world the way they do<\/li>\n<li>conservatives are often shallow, and therefore have shallow interpretations of shows &#8212; they see the world as good vs evil, us vs them which doesn&#8217;t allow for depth and nuance<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=n_71QzBeaRg\">Why Are Conservatives So Media Illiterate?<\/a><\/p>\n<p>He encourages everyone to develop curiosity, thoughtfulness, and a willingness to challenge your beliefs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Steve Shives talks about how conservatives don&#8217;t understand the shows they watch (or music they listen to). He demonstrates that conservatives miss the point of All in the Family and The Colbert Report &#8212; and sometimes even Star Trek. Why is this? He says: conservatives assume that their opinions represent the consensus, ie. other people [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[32],"class_list":["post-22286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-from-the-web","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22286"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22286\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22305,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22286\/revisions\/22305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}