{"id":22596,"date":"2016-04-08T10:37:45","date_gmt":"2016-04-08T14:37:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=22596"},"modified":"2016-04-08T10:40:36","modified_gmt":"2016-04-08T14:40:36","slug":"listen-liberal-or-what-ever-happened-to-the-party-of-the-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2016\/04\/08\/listen-liberal-or-what-ever-happened-to-the-party-of-the-people\/","title":{"rendered":"Listen Liberal: Or, What Ever Happened to the Party of the People?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just started reading the book <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Listen-Liberal-Happened-Party-People-ebook\/dp\/B012N992EK?ie=UTF8&#038;keywords=listen%20liberal&#038;qid=1460125825&#038;ref_=sr_1_1&#038;s=books&#038;sr=1-1\" target=\"_blank\">Listen Liberal: Or, What Ever Happened to the Party of the People?<\/a> by Thomas Frank.<\/p>\n<p>I found this excerpt in the introduction which perfectly explains an issue I have been telling people for years.  I probably got this idea from Elizabeth Warren or perhaps I figured it out on my own.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Listen-Liberal-Happened-Party-People-ebook\/dp\/B012N992EK?ie=UTF8&amp;keywords=listen%20liberal&amp;qid=1460125825&amp;ref_=sr_1_1&amp;s=books&amp;sr=1-1\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-22597\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/ExcerptFromListenLiberal.jpg\" alt=\"ExcerptFromListenLiberal\" width=\"627\" height=\"624\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-22597\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/ExcerptFromListenLiberal.jpg 627w, https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/ExcerptFromListenLiberal-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/ExcerptFromListenLiberal-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 627px) 100vw, 627px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Trying to answer this conundrum is what Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren are all about.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just started reading the book Listen Liberal: Or, What Ever Happened to the Party of the People? by Thomas Frank. I found this excerpt in the introduction which perfectly explains an issue I have been telling people for years. I probably got this idea from Elizabeth Warren or perhaps I figured it out on [&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-22596","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\/22596","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=22596"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22596\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22599,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22596\/revisions\/22599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}