{"id":180214,"date":"2017-06-22T21:04:00","date_gmt":"2017-06-23T02:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2017\/06\/22\/quote-of-the-day-60\/"},"modified":"2017-06-22T21:04:00","modified_gmt":"2017-06-23T02:04:00","slug":"quote-of-the-day-60","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2017\/06\/22\/quote-of-the-day-60\/","title":{"rendered":"Quote of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">While Richard Florida\u2019s recommendation that the Democratic Party should target the \u201cservice class\u201d makes perfect sense, it presupposes that the Democrats have exercising political power as their main objective. In fact, their real overarching goal is maximizing political patronage opportunities.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">\u2014<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/2017\/06\/not-just-working-class-service-class.html\">Yves Smith<\/a><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>It <b>doe<\/b>s explains an awful lot about Democratic Party dysfunction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While Richard Florida\u2019s recommendation that the Democratic Party should target the \u201cservice class\u201d makes perfect sense, it presupposes that the Democrats have exercising political power as their main objective. In fact, their real overarching goal is maximizing political patronage opportunities. \u2014Yves Smith It does explains an awful lot about Democratic Party dysfunction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[464,642,374],"class_list":["post-180214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-good-writing","tag-iron-law-of-institutions","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180214"}],"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=180214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180214\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}