{"id":177796,"date":"2019-06-07T18:04:00","date_gmt":"2019-06-07T23:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2019\/06\/07\/because-they-studiously-stand-for-nothing\/"},"modified":"2019-06-07T18:04:00","modified_gmt":"2019-06-07T23:04:00","slug":"because-they-studiously-stand-for-nothing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2019\/06\/07\/because-they-studiously-stand-for-nothing\/","title":{"rendered":"Because They Studiously Stand for Nothing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over at the <i>Washington Post<\/i>, Elizabeth Bruenig wonders, &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/why-do-young-voters-like-old-socialists\/2019\/05\/22\/f2234a78-7bed-11e9-a5b3-34f3edf1351e_story.html\">Young voters have Buttigieg and Beto. So why do they prefer old socialists?<\/a>&#8220;<\/p>\n<p>Young voters are not looking for someone like them, they a looking for someone who does the right thing, and all the speaking multiple languages and skateboarding doesn&#8217;t matter.<\/p>\n<p>They are going for old farts not named Biden because they are actually addressing long term problems rather than trying to convince people how awesome they are.<\/p>\n<p>This has been another episode of simple answers to simple questions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over at the Washington Post, Elizabeth Bruenig wonders, &#8220;Young voters have Buttigieg and Beto. So why do they prefer old socialists?&#8220; Young voters are not looking for someone like them, they a looking for someone who does the right thing, and all the speaking multiple languages and skateboarding doesn&#8217;t matter. They are going for old &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[817],"class_list":["post-177796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177796"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177796\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}