{"id":55120,"date":"2015-09-14T05:00:27","date_gmt":"2015-09-14T10:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=55120"},"modified":"2015-09-11T11:00:46","modified_gmt":"2015-09-11T16:00:46","slug":"all-alone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=55120","title":{"rendered":"All Alone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Liberals never admit to being Liberal, they always claim to be Moderates who represent the mainstream of American political thought, not like those extremist right-wing Republicans.<\/p>\n<p>Try this experiment: ask them to name prominent far-left politicians, the people on the radical fringe.<\/p>\n<p>President Obama and Hilary Clinton, are they far-left?\u00a0 No, they\u2019re Moderates.<\/p>\n<p>Elizabeth Warren, Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi, are they radical leftists?\u00a0 No, they\u2019re Moderates, too.<\/p>\n<p>Look, if everybody is to the Right of you and nobody is to the Left of you, then by definition you are not the Moderate Middle; you ARE the Lunatic Fringe.\u00a0 Welcome to the asylum.<\/p>\n<p>Joe Doakes<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>From Moorhead, Detroit Lakes is &#8220;Eastern Minnesota&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: Liberals never admit to being Liberal, they always claim to be Moderates who represent the mainstream of American political thought, not like those extremist right-wing Republicans. Try this experiment: ask them to name prominent far-left politicians, the people on the radical fringe. President Obama and Hilary Clinton, are they [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-democrats"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55120","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=55120"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55120\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55126,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55120\/revisions\/55126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}