{"id":19594,"date":"2015-02-15T08:55:21","date_gmt":"2015-02-15T13:55:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=19594"},"modified":"2015-02-15T08:55:21","modified_gmt":"2015-02-15T13:55:21","slug":"five-reasons-no-progressive-should-support-hillary-clinton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2015\/02\/15\/five-reasons-no-progressive-should-support-hillary-clinton\/","title":{"rendered":"Five Reasons No Progressive Should Support Hillary Clinton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Truth Out<\/em> has the article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.truth-out.org\/opinion\/item\/29052-five-reasons-no-progressive-should-support-hillary-clinton\" title=\"Truthout article\" target=\"_blank\">Five Reasons No Progressive Should Support Hillary Clinton<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nIf, as progressives, we simply allow ourselves to fall in line behind a Democratic establishment that smugly <a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/administration\/113431-white-house-unloads-on-professional-left\" target=\"_blank\">mocks<\/a> us, then we will forever be marginalized and beholden to a political system in which the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mackinac.org\/OvertonWindow\" target=\"_blank\">Overton window<\/a> is permanently slanted to the right.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>If Hillary Clinton is the Presidential nominee of the Democratic Party in 2016, then I may have to rethink my association with her party.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to Cedric Flower for posting this article on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/cedric.flower\/posts\/10203662729549252\" title=\"Cedric Flower's post\" target=\"_blank\">his Facebook page<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Truth Out has the article Five Reasons No Progressive Should Support Hillary Clinton. If, as progressives, we simply allow ourselves to fall in line behind a Democratic establishment that smugly mocks us, then we will forever be marginalized and beholden to a political system in which the Overton window is permanently slanted to the right. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-19594","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-stevegsposts","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19594","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19594"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19594\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19595,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19594\/revisions\/19595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}