{"id":22978,"date":"2016-08-09T15:06:18","date_gmt":"2016-08-09T19:06:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=22978"},"modified":"2016-08-09T15:06:18","modified_gmt":"2016-08-09T19:06:18","slug":"thomas-friedman-wants-a-center-left-democratic-party-based-on-austrian-economic-myths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2016\/08\/09\/thomas-friedman-wants-a-center-left-democratic-party-based-on-austrian-economic-myths\/","title":{"rendered":"Thomas Friedman Wants A \u201cCenter-Left\u201d Democratic Party Based on Austrian Economic Myths"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>New Economic Perspectives<\/em> has the article <a href=\"http:\/\/neweconomicperspectives.org\/2016\/08\/thomas-friedman-wants-center-left-democratic-party-based-austrian-economic-myths.html\" target=\"_blank\">Thomas Friedman Wants A \u201cCenter-Left\u201d Democratic Party Based on Austrian Economic Myths<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nThe dishonest aspect of all this is that Friedman advises Hillary to adopt these hard-right dogmas, which have repeatedly led to the epidemics of elite fraud that drove our last three financial crises, as a means to achieve rapid economic growth and financial stability.  The hilarious aspect of this is that Friedman claims that Hillary\u2019s embrace of ultra-right wing tropes would produce a \u201ccompassionate, center-left Web party for the 21st century.\u201d  Center-left?\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>You need to be armed with the information in this article (it&#8217;s ok if you already know this information) to guard against being duped by phony, right-wing theories.  If you are going to explain to other people what is wrong with these theories and especially with Libertarians in general, you need to know what is in this article.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Economic Perspectives has the article Thomas Friedman Wants A \u201cCenter-Left\u201d Democratic Party Based on Austrian Economic Myths. The dishonest aspect of all this is that Friedman advises Hillary to adopt these hard-right dogmas, which have repeatedly led to the epidemics of elite fraud that drove our last three financial crises, as a means to [&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-22978","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\/22978","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=22978"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22978\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22979,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22978\/revisions\/22979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}