{"id":179485,"date":"2018-01-24T19:55:00","date_gmt":"2018-01-25T00:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2018\/01\/24\/today-i-wrote-the-quote-of-the-day\/"},"modified":"2018-01-24T19:55:00","modified_gmt":"2018-01-25T00:55:00","slug":"today-i-wrote-the-quote-of-the-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2018\/01\/24\/today-i-wrote-the-quote-of-the-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Today, I Wrote the Quote of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At the <a href=\"http:\/\/stellarparthenon.org\/\">Stellar Parthenon BBS<\/a>, we are having a discussion about 2020, and there was a difference of opinion.<\/p>\n<p>Basically, it came down to a bunch of us saying that the Democratic Party is f%$#ed up, and before the Presidential campaign begins in earnest, we need to correct the fundamentally dysfunctional structure and culture of the party before going there.<\/p>\n<p>On the other side was one guy, who was shouting for all the &#8220;Bernie Bros&#8221; to shut up.<\/p>\n<p>It went around and around, and finally said that his position was about:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><b><span style=\"font-size: 100%; font-variant: small-caps;\">Who would be the best general for the Polish cavalry, when they are still charging Panzers on horse back, is like the bite of a dog into a stone; it is a stupidity.<\/span><\/b><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That whole dog\/bone thing was actually from Friedrich Nietzsche, but the analogy was mine.<\/p>\n<p>I know, it ain&#8217;t deathless prose, but it&#8217;s as close as I&#8217;ll ever get.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the Stellar Parthenon BBS, we are having a discussion about 2020, and there was a difference of opinion. Basically, it came down to a bunch of us saying that the Democratic Party is f%$#ed up, and before the Presidential campaign begins in earnest, we need to correct the fundamentally dysfunctional structure and culture of &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":[464,538,405,414,595],"class_list":["post-179485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-good-writing","tag-organizing","tag-presidential-campaign","tag-psychology","tag-society"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179485"}],"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=179485"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179485\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}