{"id":24867,"date":"2017-11-14T21:45:49","date_gmt":"2017-11-15T02:45:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=24867"},"modified":"2017-11-14T21:45:49","modified_gmt":"2017-11-15T02:45:49","slug":"norman-solomon-and-paul-jay-discuss-the-struggle-in-the-democratic-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2017\/11\/14\/norman-solomon-and-paul-jay-discuss-the-struggle-in-the-democratic-party\/","title":{"rendered":"Norman Solomon and Paul Jay discuss the Struggle in the Democratic Party"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>The Real News Network<\/em> has the interview <a href=\"http:\/\/therealnews.com\/t2\/story:20459:Norman-Solomon-and-Paul-Jay-discuss-the-Struggle-in-the-Democratic-Party\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Norman Solomon and Paul Jay discuss the Struggle in the Democratic Party<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nWe&#8217;re down in the hole, we do not have a lever to pull that can move the Democratic Party in a progressive direction, and yet there&#8217;s tremendous organizing going on.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div style=\"text-align:center\">\n    <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/1l9zs5VpnHM?rel=0\" style=\"border: thick ridge #009900;\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<pre class=\"plain\">\r\n<\/pre>\n<p>Norman Soloman is still holding on to the crackpot reality he decries. Toward the end of the first part he explains why it is a waste of time to form a third party. However, for most of the hour he makes a darn good case that the Democratic Party cannot be rescued.\ufeff  (See the quote above that I have taken from  the interview.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Real News Network has the interview Norman Solomon and Paul Jay discuss the Struggle in the Democratic Party. We&#8217;re down in the hole, we do not have a lever to pull that can move the Democratic Party in a progressive direction, and yet there&#8217;s tremendous organizing going on. Norman Soloman is still holding 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-24867","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\/24867","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=24867"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24867\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24868,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24867\/revisions\/24868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}