{"id":182271,"date":"2015-11-04T19:19:00","date_gmt":"2015-11-05T00:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2015\/11\/04\/quote-of-the-day-134\/"},"modified":"2015-11-04T19:19:00","modified_gmt":"2015-11-05T00:19:00","slug":"quote-of-the-day-134","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2015\/11\/04\/quote-of-the-day-134\/","title":{"rendered":"Quote of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">Sanders is a clear outlier in a generation that has forgotten what it means to be a public servant. The <i>Times <\/i>remarks upon his &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/08\/21\/us\/politics\/bernie-sanders-evokes-obama-of-08-but-with-less-hope.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">grumpy demeanor<\/a>.&#8221;  But Bernie is grumpy because he&#8217;s thinking about vets who need  surgeries, guest workers who&#8217;ve had their wages ripped off, kids without  access to dentists or some other godforsaken problem that most of us  normal people can care about for maybe a few minutes on a good day, but  Bernie worries about more or less all the time.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">I first met Bernie Sanders ten years ago, and I don&#8217;t believe there&#8217;s anything else he really thinks about. There&#8217;s no other endgame for him. He&#8217;s not looking for a book deal or a membership in a Martha&#8217;s Vineyard golf club or a cameo in a Guy Ritchie movie. This election isn&#8217;t a game to him; it&#8217;s not the awesomely repulsive dark joke it is to me and many others.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">And the only reason this attention-averse, sometimes socially uncomfortable person is subjecting himself to this asinine process is because he genuinely believes the system is not beyond repair. <\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">\u2014<a href=\"http:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/politics\/news\/the-case-for-bernie-sanders-20151103?page=2\">Matt Taibbi<\/a>, in a cogent, and remarkably invective free, analysis of Bernie Sanders.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I think that this also encapsulates what is so wrong with politics since Ronald Reagan.<\/p>\n<p>Our misleadership class have bought into the idea that the system is irrevocably broken, and so they only pay lip service to fixing it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sanders is a clear outlier in a generation that has forgotten what it means to be a public servant. The Times remarks upon his &#8220;grumpy demeanor.&#8221; But Bernie is grumpy because he&#8217;s thinking about vets who need surgeries, guest workers who&#8217;ve had their wages ripped off, kids without access to dentists or some other godforsaken &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1002,978],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-182271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-good-writing","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182271"}],"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=182271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182271\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}