{"id":199,"date":"2026-07-25T12:03:18","date_gmt":"2026-07-25T17:03:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/governedbyidiots.com\/?p=199"},"modified":"2026-07-25T12:03:18","modified_gmt":"2026-07-25T17:03:18","slug":"chicago-sank-14m-into-a-discount-grocery-chain-and-it-went-under-this-is-progressivism-in-action-overpromise-waste-tax-dollars-watch-the-project-fail-miserably-then-shrug-it-off-progre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/governedbyidiots.com\/?p=199","title":{"rendered":"\u200bChicago sank $14M into a discount grocery chain and it went under. This is progressivism in action: Overpromise, waste tax dollars, watch the project fail miserably, then shrug it off. Progressives don&#8217;t care about a plan succeeding. Progressives only care about being credited for their &#8220;good intentions.&#8221;\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chicago sank $14M into a discount grocery chain and it went under.<\/p>\n<p>This is progressivism in action: Overpromise, waste tax dollars, watch the project fail miserably, then shrug it off.<\/p>\n<p>Progressives don&#8217;t care about a plan succeeding. <\/p>\n<p>Progressives only care about being credited for their &#8220;good intentions.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nitter.net\/ChicagoContrar1\/status\/2081062748209725809#m\"><br \/>\n<br \/>Video<br \/>\n  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nitter.net\/pic\/amplify_video_thumb%2F2081057331203203072%2Fimg%2FUl8oXv8eQepq_Puz.jpg\" \/><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chicago sank $14M into a discount grocery chain and it went under. This is progressivism in action: Overpromise, waste tax dollars, watch the project fail miserably, then shrug it off. Progressives don&#8217;t care about a plan succeeding. Progressives only care about being credited for their &#8220;good intentions.&#8221; Video<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":200,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cnn-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/governedbyidiots.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/governedbyidiots.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/governedbyidiots.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/governedbyidiots.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/governedbyidiots.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/governedbyidiots.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/governedbyidiots.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/governedbyidiots.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/governedbyidiots.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/governedbyidiots.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}