{"id":97460,"date":"2016-10-03T15:19:33","date_gmt":"2016-10-03T22:19:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/?p=97460"},"modified":"2016-10-03T15:19:33","modified_gmt":"2016-10-03T22:19:33","slug":"the-weirdness-of-worshipping-the-wealthy-in-a-single-tweet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/2016\/10\/the-weirdness-of-worshipping-the-wealthy-in-a-single-tweet.html","title":{"rendered":"The Weirdness of Worshipping the Wealthy in a Single Tweet"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/scontent-lax3-1.xx.fbcdn.net\/v\/t1.0-9\/14520416_1479429742067999_2778447652099621152_n.jpg?oh=aaf237dbd0a2540f39f931f6ecced32c&amp;oe=58749992\" alt=\"\"><\/p>\n<p>It is part of the strangeness of human psychology that so many people adore the rich thief who robs them and dream of becoming him while they despise\u00a0the poor man and resent his every smallest comfort or convenience.<\/p>\n<p>Lyndon Johnson sums up the appeal of Trump for many: \u201cI\u2019ll tell you what\u2019s at the bottom of it. 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