{"id":23977,"date":"2017-02-19T12:33:42","date_gmt":"2017-02-19T17:33:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=23977"},"modified":"2017-02-19T12:34:50","modified_gmt":"2017-02-19T17:34:50","slug":"lets-talk-about-bernies-capitulation-to-the-democratic-establishment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2017\/02\/19\/lets-talk-about-bernies-capitulation-to-the-democratic-establishment\/","title":{"rendered":"Let\u2019s Talk About Bernie\u2019s Capitulation To The Democratic Establishment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Newslogue<\/em> has the article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newslogue.com\/debate\/347\" target=\"_blank\">Let\u2019s Talk About Bernie\u2019s Capitulation To The Democratic Establishment<\/a>.  The article has many positive things to say about Bernie Sanders, but it also wants us to be aware of this critique.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n&#8230; Bernie is not our leader. He isn\u2019t. The extent to which the establishment has sunk their talons into him proves that we can\u2019t afford to allow him to lead us. They will use him to steer us in unwholesome directions and guide us away from our desire to destroy their sick institutions. \u201cBernie says\u201d should not be received with any more authoritative weight than \u201cNoam Chomsky says,\u201d \u201cJulian Assange says\u201d or \u201cCaitlin Johnstone says\u201d; it should always be taken as data about someone\u2019s opinion, never as gospel truth.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>There are a number of interesting quotes from authorities about the danger of just trusting to authorities.  Maybe that makes their quotes to be paradoxes, but I think they are right.<\/p>\n<p>Remember <a href=\"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/category\/greenbergs-laws\/greenbergs-law-of-reverence\/\" target=\"_blank\">Greenberg\u2019s Law of Reverence<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nPrinciples are not great because a revered person spoke of them. A person is revered because he or she spoke of great principles.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Newslogue has the article Let\u2019s Talk About Bernie\u2019s Capitulation To The Democratic Establishment. The article has many positive things to say about Bernie Sanders, but it also wants us to be aware of this critique. &#8230; Bernie is not our leader. He isn\u2019t. The extent to which the establishment has sunk their talons into him [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[183,166],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-23977","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-greenbergs-law-of-reverence","7":"category-stevegsposts","8":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23977","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=23977"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23977\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23979,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23977\/revisions\/23979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}