{"id":182902,"date":"2015-05-09T17:46:00","date_gmt":"2015-05-09T22:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2015\/05\/09\/quote-of-the-day-156\/"},"modified":"2015-05-09T17:46:00","modified_gmt":"2015-05-09T22:46:00","slug":"quote-of-the-day-156","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2015\/05\/09\/quote-of-the-day-156\/","title":{"rendered":"Quote of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">I &#8216;m no expert on UK politics, though I do follow it pretty constantly, but pretty sure one problem (not the only one) is that Labour has the early aughts Dem disease. &#8220;Not quite as evil as the other guys&#8221; is not a winning strategy. It isn&#8217;t really about going more Left, though on some issues it could have been, it&#8217;s about clearly highlighting the distinctions. You know, making clear just what it is you stand for, whatever the hell that is.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">\u2014<a href=\"http:\/\/www.eschatonblog.com\/2015\/05\/well-that-didnt-go-very-well.html\">Atrios<\/a><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Or, as Harry S Truman put it, &#8220;Given a choice between a fake Republican and a real one, the public will choose the real Republican every time.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I &#8216;m no expert on UK politics, though I do follow it pretty constantly, but pretty sure one problem (not the only one) is that Labour has the early aughts Dem disease. &#8220;Not quite as evil as the other guys&#8221; is not a winning strategy. It isn&#8217;t really about going more Left, though on some &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1002,1003,978],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-182902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-good-writing","category-philosophy","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182902"}],"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=182902"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182902\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}