{"id":1128,"date":"2006-06-23T16:07:33","date_gmt":"2006-06-23T16:07:33","guid":{"rendered":"0"},"modified":"2006-09-28T12:09:48","modified_gmt":"2006-09-28T12:09:48","slug":"rectifying_the","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/?p=1128","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;&#8230;Rectifying The Rightward Drift Of British Society&#8230;&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Crooked Timber leads me to <a href=\"http:\/\/urbandriftuk.blogspot.com\/2006\/06\/what-will-gordon-do.html\" target=\"browser\">urban drift uk<\/a>, who is commenting from a far-left point of view on Gordon Brown and the future of the Labor party.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>The worst possible outcome is not necessarily that of a Labour party shut out of power for the foreseeable future, but that of a Labour government enjoying sustained electoral success in a society that has become more rightwing under its watch. Gordon Brown may harbour a progressive vision of the ideal society, but without a different approach, and with time, and the patience of the left running out, the challenge of rectifying the rightward drift of British society will be insurmountable.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The notion that the government should be empowered to move society to the right or left, rather than somehow implementing policies through programs, is somehow kinda disturbing to me. Then again, I don&#8217;t have a Mao or Che poster in my living room.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A leftist UK site believes government should control the political attitudes of British society. Armed Liberal scratches his head.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1128"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1128"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1128\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}