{"id":20851,"date":"2015-05-28T11:22:33","date_gmt":"2015-05-28T15:22:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=20851"},"modified":"2015-05-28T11:22:34","modified_gmt":"2015-05-28T15:22:34","slug":"is-progressivism-in-the-eye-of-the-beholder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2015\/05\/28\/is-progressivism-in-the-eye-of-the-beholder\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Progressivism in the Eye of the Beholder?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>New Economic Perspectives<\/em> has the article <a href=\"http:\/\/neweconomicperspectives.org\/2015\/05\/is-progressivism-in-the-eye-of-the-beholder.html\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"New Eonomic Perspectives article\">Is Progressivism in the Eye of the Beholder?<\/a> by Joe Firestone.  He is critiquing a post by Thomas Palley. He quotes Palley as follows:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nIn Clintonworld, it seems that playing a central role in catastrophic policy failure or peddling bad economics doesn\u2019t disqualify you from future influence. If anything, a record of being disastrously wrong on economic policy seems to be a required credential.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is something that even I forget when Clinton tries to put on the charm to pretend that she gets the idea of what being a progressive is.  Joe Firestone gives a good account of what would be necessary for us to believe Clinton has really reformed.  However, he comes to the following conclusion:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nPerhaps Sanders is that authentic candidate. But Hillary Clinton, I\u2019m afraid, can never play that role!\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Economic Perspectives has the article Is Progressivism in the Eye of the Beholder? by Joe Firestone. He is critiquing a post by Thomas Palley. He quotes Palley as follows: In Clintonworld, it seems that playing a central role in catastrophic policy failure or peddling bad economics doesn\u2019t disqualify you from future influence. If anything, [&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-20851","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\/20851","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=20851"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20851\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20852,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20851\/revisions\/20852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}