{"id":183123,"date":"2015-03-03T20:50:00","date_gmt":"2015-03-04T01:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2015\/03\/03\/quote-of-the-day-163\/"},"modified":"2015-03-03T20:50:00","modified_gmt":"2015-03-04T01:50:00","slug":"quote-of-the-day-163","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2015\/03\/03\/quote-of-the-day-163\/","title":{"rendered":"Quote of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">As anti-worker as Reagan was, however, he continued to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presidency.ucsb.edu\/ws\/?pid=44193\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">praise<\/a>  unions and their vital contribution to America. Ronald Reagan would be  unable to win a Republican primary in any state in 2015 because he  supported the right of workers to organize and bargain collectively.  That is how extreme his Party has become.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">\u2014<a href=\"http:\/\/neweconomicperspectives.org\/2015\/03\/walkers-war-on-workers-and-the-wall-street-journals-cleaned-up-coverage.html\">William K. Black<\/a> On Scott Walkers batsh%$ insane statements comparing labor unions and ISIS.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I think that Ronald Reagan was determined to muzzle labor unions, and condemn them to irrelevancy, but he felt the need from a political perspective to throw some empty rhetorical flourishes their way even as he knifed them in the back.<\/p>\n<p>These days, you cannot win a primary campaign in the Republican party doing the same.&nbsp; The demand for &#8220;red meat&#8221;is too strong.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As anti-worker as Reagan was, however, he continued to praise unions and their vital contribution to America. Ronald Reagan would be unable to win a Republican primary in any state in 2015 because he supported the right of workers to organize and bargain collectively. That is how extreme his Party has become. \u2014William K. Black &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[969,1002,1011,1023,978,979],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-183123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-evil","category-good-writing","category-history","category-labor","category-politics","category-wanker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183123"}],"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=183123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183123\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}