{"id":3024,"date":"2008-08-08T06:46:47","date_gmt":"2008-08-08T11:46:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=3024"},"modified":"2008-08-08T06:46:47","modified_gmt":"2008-08-08T11:46:47","slug":"if-you-are-not-from-the-twin-cities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=3024","title":{"rendered":"If You Are Not From The Twin Cities&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;or haven&#8217;t hung around here a long time, he&#8217;s hard to explain the Twin Cities left.<\/p>\n<p>I got this quote from an introduction thread of a local politics list-server; a regular is explaining his politics to the membership:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>My politics are moderate.\u00a0 That is, I view the current IR as an<br \/>\nextreme-right party and the DFL as a moderate-right party with some<br \/>\nprogressive elements.\u00a0 I&#8217;d call the Greens and <span id=\"lw_1218195761_0\" class=\"yshortcuts\" style=\"border-bottom: 1px dashed #0066cc; cursor: pointer\">Socialist Workers Party<\/span><br \/>\nmoderate-left parties.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>These are the people who think the media, the Strib, the school system and academia are moderate to conservative.<\/p>\n<p>To paraphrase PJ O&#8217;Rourke; &#8220;You can have a discussion with these people.\u00a0 You can also have a discussion with livestock, for all the good it&#8217;ll do you&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;or haven&#8217;t hung around here a long time, he&#8217;s hard to explain the Twin Cities left. I got this quote from an introduction thread of a local politics list-server; a regular is explaining his politics to the membership: My politics are moderate.\u00a0 That is, I view the current IR as an extreme-right party and the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-minneapolis","category-minnesota-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3024","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3024"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3024\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}