{"id":180120,"date":"2017-07-14T17:22:00","date_gmt":"2017-07-14T22:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2017\/07\/14\/feel-good-story-of-the-day\/"},"modified":"2017-07-14T17:22:00","modified_gmt":"2017-07-14T22:22:00","slug":"feel-good-story-of-the-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2017\/07\/14\/feel-good-story-of-the-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Feel Good Story of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Jeremy Corbyn has just <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/powerpost\/wp\/2017\/07\/13\/britains-corbyn-i-got-my-ideas-from-bernie-sanders\/\">given Bernie Sanders credit for the Labour manifesto which led to his surprisingly good electoral results<\/a>:<\/div>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">\u201cBernie called me the day after our election here,\u201d Jeremy Corbyn<a href=\"https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2017\/07\/13\/video-naomi-klein-and-jeremy-corbyn-discuss-how-to-get-the-world-we-want\/\"> said in an interview <\/a>published Thursday by the Intercept. \u201cI was half-asleep watching something on television. And Bernie comes on to say, well done on the campaign, and I was interested in your campaigning ideas. Where did you get them from? And I said, well, you, actually.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Corbyn, who won the leadership of the Labour Party in 2015 and held it after a 2016 challenge, has frequently been cited by Sanders as an example of how left politics can win. This year, a snap election that began with predictions about Corbyn driving Labour into the wilderness ended with a series of surprise gains, and Prime Minister Theresa May clinging to power in a controversial deal with Northern Ireland\u2019s Democratic Unionist Party. According to a post-election analysis by Ipsos Mori, over half of eligible British voters under age 30 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/jun\/20\/youthquake-behind-labour-election-surge-divides-generations\">turned out <\/a>\u2014 double the youth turnout rate in some American elections. That led to surprising Labour gains in cities with large universities, with student turnout overturning large Conservative majorities.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This amuses me no end.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jeremy Corbyn has just given Bernie Sanders credit for the Labour manifesto which led to his surprisingly good electoral results: \u201cBernie called me the day after our election here,\u201d Jeremy Corbyn said in an interview published Thursday by the Intercept. \u201cI was half-asleep watching something on television. And Bernie comes on to say, well done &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":[615,504,374],"class_list":["post-180120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-bernie-sanders","tag-philosophy","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180120"}],"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=180120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180120\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}