{"id":55857,"date":"2015-10-29T05:00:22","date_gmt":"2015-10-29T10:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=55857"},"modified":"2015-10-26T08:54:36","modified_gmt":"2015-10-26T13:54:36","slug":"changing-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=55857","title":{"rendered":"Changing Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Times change, slogans change.<\/p>\n<p>A Democrat President once said \u201cAsk not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.\u201d\u00a0 That\u2019s a Republican way of thinking expressed in the idiom \u201cpull-yourself-up-by-your-own-bootstraps.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In contrast, Bernie and Hilary believe \u201cFrom each according to his ability, to each according to his need.\u201d \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/we-are-all-socialists-now-82577\">Democrats are all socialists now<\/a>, a European way of thinking endorsed by Karl, Josef, Fidel and the most famous National Socialist of all, Adolf.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Cue the liberal who writes in bleating &#8220;Naziism wasn&#8217;t socialism&#8221;. \u00a0Oh, go ahead. \u00a0Do it. \u00a0I&#8217;m ready for you. \u00a0You&#8217;ll lose.<\/p>\n<p>Back to Joe&#8217;s email:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I\u2019m curious \u2013 if we were to survey history for the last few millennia, which system has been more successful at raising overall prosperity?\u00a0 Or is that factor no longer relevant, misery now being considered acceptable so long as it\u2019s widely enough shared?<\/p>\n<p>Joe Doakes<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s not even a question for those paying attention.<\/p>\n<p>So much of our society, of course, isn&#8217;t, and never has.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: Times change, slogans change. A Democrat President once said \u201cAsk not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.\u201d\u00a0 That\u2019s a Republican way of thinking expressed in the idiom \u201cpull-yourself-up-by-your-own-bootstraps.\u201d In contrast, Bernie and Hilary believe \u201cFrom each according to his ability, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-socialism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55857","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=55857"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55857\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55858,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55857\/revisions\/55858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}