{"id":3024,"date":"2002-11-13T15:45:40","date_gmt":"2002-11-13T15:45:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.armedliberal.com\/?p=423"},"modified":"2002-11-13T15:45:40","modified_gmt":"2002-11-13T15:45:40","slug":"more-patriotic-liberalism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/?p=3024","title":{"rendered":"MORE PATRIOTIC LIBERALISM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Check out <a href=\"http:\/\/slate.msn.com\/?id=2073821&#038;entry=2073832\" target=\"browser\">Joe Klein<\/a> in Slate. A key quote:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>The Democrats have to stop being so goddamned negative and pessimistic. No piece about the party should omit Dick Gephardt&#8217;s famous retort to Ronald Reagan&#8217;s &#8220;Morning in America&#8221; ads: &#8220;It&#8217;s getting closer and closer to midnight.&#8221; (For that reason alone, Gephardt should be barred from further national political activity.) Reich, this is your specialty: Why are Democrats always so downbeat and mopey about the most dynamic economy in the history of the world? Why are your friends at the American Prospect so perpetually dour, dark, and humorless? Why can&#8217;t they be as funny as you are?<br \/>\nThe most important qualities that Newer Democrats need to enlist are optimism and an inspirational, idealistic American patriotism. This is particularly true if they want to appeal to young people. I would guess that those who watch Saturday Night Live and MTV adhere to only three bedrock political principles: tolerance, environmentalism, and entertainment value. (I would guess, for example, that they intuit the difference between Eminem&#8217;s\u0097and, yeah, mea culpa, Sister Souljah&#8217;s\u0097scathing social realism and true intolerance.) <\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read the whole thing.<br \/>\nI&#8217;m busy, serious bloggage later tonight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Check out Joe Klein in Slate. A key quote: The Democrats have to stop being so goddamned negative and pessimistic. No piece about the party should omit Dick Gephardt&#8217;s famous retort to Ronald Reagan&#8217;s &#8220;Morning in America&#8221; ads: &#8220;It&#8217;s getting closer and closer to midnight.&#8221; (For that reason alone, Gephardt should be barred from further [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3024"}],"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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3024"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3024\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}