{"id":2429,"date":"2011-02-25T17:36:24","date_gmt":"2011-02-25T17:36:24","guid":{"rendered":"0"},"modified":"2011-02-25T17:37:21","modified_gmt":"2011-02-25T17:37:21","slug":"satan_buys_earm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/?p=2429","title":{"rendered":"Satan Buys Earmuffs. I Violently (Can I Still Say That?) Agree With A Crooks And Liars Blogger."},"content":{"rendered":"

…or he agrees with me.<\/p>\n

One of the points I’ve made for eight or nine years blogging is that the Democratic Party has abandoned working people, except for a few favored ones – public sector unions being one of the exceptions. I’ve been derided for it, but it’s true so I really don’t care.<\/p>\n

I’m delighted to see someone on a progblog come out and say it as well.<\/p>\n

Here’s Brad Reed at Crooks And Liars<\/a>:<\/p>\n

For far too long the Democratic Party leadership has supported policies that have screwed blue-collar Midwesterners as much as any Republican policies have — after all, remember that the repeal of Glass-Stegal got more than 90 votes in the U.S. Senate and was signed into law by a Democratic president. Instead of constantly asking ourselves, “What’s the matter with these silly Midwesterners?” we should probably be asking, “Why the hell isn’t our supposed center-left party looking out for all workers’ interests?”<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Is that a light that I see?
\n–<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A progressive blogger wonders what the Democratic Party has done for working people in the last 30 years. Armed Liberal swoons.<\/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":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2429"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2429"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2429\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}