{"id":178533,"date":"2018-11-02T17:15:00","date_gmt":"2018-11-02T22:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2018\/11\/02\/snark-of-the-day-16\/"},"modified":"2018-11-02T17:15:00","modified_gmt":"2018-11-02T22:15:00","slug":"snark-of-the-day-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2018\/11\/02\/snark-of-the-day-16\/","title":{"rendered":"Snark of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\"><i>How do you say \u201cdead woman walking\u201d in German? Today, the answer to that question is \u201cAngela Merkel\u201d after the German leader announced that she would be seeking neither re-election as chancellor in 2021, nor re-election as head of her Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party this December.<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">\u2014<a href=\"http:\/\/www.atimes.com\/if-everything-is-so-wunderbar-in-germany-why-are-the-voters-so-unhappy\/\">Marshall Auerback<\/a><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>In truth it&#8217;s more serious than this witticism posits, as Merkel, taking the baton from Gerhard Schr\u00f6der, did some very bad things:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">But there\u2019s another side to this story. However highly regarded, Chancellor Merkel has repeatedly led governments, coalition or otherwise, that championed the neoliberal dismantling of the country\u2019s \u201csocial market economy,\u201d especially in services. Her government also pushed and prodded the rest of the European Union in a comparable direction.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">In Germany specifically, the end result has been the growth of a two-tiered economy, which has heightened economic insecurity, created declining living standards for much of the population, and exacerbated inequality. In other words, too little \u201csocial,\u201d too much \u201cmarket.\u201d<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The combined beggar thy neighbor\/beggar thy citizenry policies have been a disaster, but they are integral to the neoliberal project.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How do you say \u201cdead woman walking\u201d in German? Today, the answer to that question is \u201cAngela Merkel\u201d after the German leader announced that she would be seeking neither re-election as chancellor in 2021, nor re-election as head of her Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party this December. \u2014Marshall Auerback In truth it&#8217;s more serious than &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[630,464,374,486,390],"class_list":["post-178533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-european-union","tag-good-writing","tag-politics","tag-schadenfreude","tag-snark"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178533"}],"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=178533"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178533\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}