{"id":24755,"date":"2017-10-26T11:08:34","date_gmt":"2017-10-26T15:08:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=24755"},"modified":"2017-10-26T11:08:34","modified_gmt":"2017-10-26T15:08:34","slug":"afl-cio-calls-for-a-break-with-lesser-of-two-evils-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2017\/10\/26\/afl-cio-calls-for-a-break-with-lesser-of-two-evils-politics\/","title":{"rendered":"AFL-CIO calls for a break with \u201clesser of two evils\u201d politics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>People&#8217;s World<\/em> has the article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.peoplesworld.org\/article\/afl-cio-calls-for-a-break-with-lesser-of-two-evils-politics\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">AFL-CIO calls for a break with \u201clesser of two evils\u201d politics<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n\u201cFor decades the political system has failed working people,\u201d Weingarten said. \u201cActing on behalf of corporations and the rich and powerful, the political system has been taking away, one after another, the pillars that support working people\u2019s right to good jobs and secure benefits.\u201d\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I am glad to see that the labor unions are waking up to the fact that something has to change in the way we do politics if workers are ever to get a fair chance again.<\/p>\n<p>The article has some discussion about the idea of a Labor Party, and some of the problems of getting such a party established.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People&#8217;s World has the article AFL-CIO calls for a break with \u201clesser of two evils\u201d politics. \u201cFor decades the political system has failed working people,\u201d Weingarten said. \u201cActing on behalf of corporations and the rich and powerful, the political system has been taking away, one after another, the pillars that support working people\u2019s right 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-24755","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\/24755","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=24755"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24755\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24756,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24755\/revisions\/24756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}