{"id":20919,"date":"2015-06-03T13:02:11","date_gmt":"2015-06-03T17:02:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=20919"},"modified":"2015-06-03T13:03:08","modified_gmt":"2015-06-03T17:03:08","slug":"bernie-sanders-explains-why-socialist-isnt-a-dirty-word-late-night-with-seth-meyers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2015\/06\/03\/bernie-sanders-explains-why-socialist-isnt-a-dirty-word-late-night-with-seth-meyers\/","title":{"rendered":"Bernie Sanders Explains Why &#8220;Socialist&#8221; Isn&#8217;t a Dirty Word &#8211; Late Night with Seth Meyers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Late Night with Seth Meyers<\/em> has the interview <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?t=239&#038;v=BFAq-4Vv5c0\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Bernie Sanders interview\">Bernie Sanders Explains Why &#8220;Socialist&#8221; Isn&#8217;t a Dirty Word<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align:center\">\n    <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/BFAq-4Vv5c0?rel=0\" style=\"border: thick ridge #009900;\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<p>I have always felt that if the policies that seem out of favor to the public were properly explained, the public would come around.  Having Bernie Sanders explain these things is a major contribution to our country and our future.  That alone, would be worthy of a great place in history and possibly a Nobel prize.<\/p>\n<p>However, I hope for even more for Bernie Sanders.  I hope he is our next President.<\/p>\n<p>Finally we have someone who can explain this rather than cower when faced with a challenge to his ideas.  What really irked me about the Colbert Report was when he had a liberal\/progressive on and he posed one of the standard right wing charges against them, they had no answer.  If Bernie were on the show, he would have all the answers to make Colber&#8217;s character look like the fool he was.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Late Night with Seth Meyers has the interview Bernie Sanders Explains Why &#8220;Socialist&#8221; Isn&#8217;t a Dirty Word. I have always felt that if the policies that seem out of favor to the public were properly explained, the public would come around. Having Bernie Sanders explain these things is a major contribution to our country and [&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":["post-20919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-stevegsposts","czr-hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20919","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=20919"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20919\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20921,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20919\/revisions\/20921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}