{"id":23471,"date":"2016-12-16T20:58:42","date_gmt":"2016-12-17T01:58:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=23471"},"modified":"2016-12-16T20:58:42","modified_gmt":"2016-12-17T01:58:42","slug":"bernie-sanders-anti-political-correctness-rant-proves-the-left-is-learning-the-wrong-lessons-from-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2016\/12\/16\/bernie-sanders-anti-political-correctness-rant-proves-the-left-is-learning-the-wrong-lessons-from-trump\/","title":{"rendered":"Bernie Sanders\u2019 anti-political correctness rant proves the left is learning the wrong lessons from Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I found the article <a href=\"http:\/\/qz.com\/865263\/bernie-sanders-and-political-correctness-democrats-are-learning-all-the-wrong-lessons-from-donald-trump-election-win\/\" target=\"_blank\">Bernie Sanders\u2019 anti-political correctness rant proves the left is learning the wrong lessons from Trump<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nCosigning Trump\u2019s attack on political correctness validates the bigotry of his campaign.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>What this article really proves is that the authors of articles like this are the ones learning the wrong lessons.  They focus on what drives them away from Trump and they misjudge what attracts many people to Trump.<\/p>\n<p>My response to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AttorneyMacDonald\/posts\/10211375403723744\" target=\"_blank\">post by a pseudo-leftie<\/a> exemplifies what I mean. His post ponted to the <em>New York Daily News<\/em> article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/news\/national\/king-huge-education-level-drop-off-trump-cabinet-picks-article-1.2911859\" target=\"_blank\">KING: There\u2019s a huge education level drop-off with the Trump cabinet picks<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nDonald Trump will be the first President of the United States in 25 years to not have a graduate degree of any kind.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>My response to my pseudo-leftie friend was the following:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nAnd what did we get from the educated people that Obama appointed? Or the ones Bill Clinton appointed? What about the Best and the Brightest that David Halberstam wrote about giving us the Viet Nam mess?<\/p>\n<p>And you wonder why the &#8220;least educated&#8221; scoff at your claims to a &#8216;superior education&#8221;?<\/p>\n<p>Will the Democratic Party ever be willing to look itself in the mirror? I have seen no evidence, and you are certainly giving a fine display of lack of evidence here.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Now you see why I do not win friends and I do not influence people.  What gets into me sometimes?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I found the article Bernie Sanders\u2019 anti-political correctness rant proves the left is learning the wrong lessons from Trump. Cosigning Trump\u2019s attack on political correctness validates the bigotry of his campaign. What this article really proves is that the authors of articles like this are the ones learning the wrong lessons. They focus on what [&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-23471","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\/23471","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=23471"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23471\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23473,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23471\/revisions\/23473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}