{"id":22390,"date":"2016-01-23T12:38:15","date_gmt":"2016-01-23T17:38:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=22390"},"modified":"2016-01-23T12:40:30","modified_gmt":"2016-01-23T17:40:30","slug":"what-the-liberal-attacks-on-bernie-sanders-are-really-about","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2016\/01\/23\/what-the-liberal-attacks-on-bernie-sanders-are-really-about\/","title":{"rendered":"What the Liberal Attacks on Bernie Sanders Are Really About"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>The Fiscal Times<\/em> has the article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thefiscaltimes.com\/Columns\/2016\/01\/22\/What-Liberal-Attacks-Bernie-Sanders-Are-Really-About\" target=\"_blank\">What the Liberal Attacks on Bernie Sanders Are Really About<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n&#8220;Those wondering why Warren hasn\u2019t endorsed Hillary Clinton yet should consider whether it\u2019s because Clinton and her minions are delivering a mortal wound to the cause of Warren\u2019s life.&#8221;\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>When I have to have this argument in a meeting of the Sturbridge Democratic Town Committee, you have to know that even the wealthy Democrats hate to see the system get unrigged.  When they supported Elizabeth Warren for Senator, maybe they thought her ideas would stay in Massachusetts where they could safely do no harm to the wealthy.<\/p>\n<p>I am not wealthy, but whatever little harm Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders&#8217; ideas could do to me, they will be less painful than the pitchforks from the poor who mistake me for their enemy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Fiscal Times has the article What the Liberal Attacks on Bernie Sanders Are Really About. &#8220;Those wondering why Warren hasn\u2019t endorsed Hillary Clinton yet should consider whether it\u2019s because Clinton and her minions are delivering a mortal wound to the cause of Warren\u2019s life.&#8221; When I have to have this argument in a meeting [&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-22390","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\/22390","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=22390"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22390\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22394,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22390\/revisions\/22394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}