{"id":28340,"date":"2020-02-12T22:37:14","date_gmt":"2020-02-13T03:37:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=28340"},"modified":"2020-02-12T22:37:14","modified_gmt":"2020-02-13T03:37:14","slug":"centrist-child-syndrome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2020\/02\/12\/centrist-child-syndrome\/","title":{"rendered":"Centrist-Child Syndrome"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>The Outline <\/em>has the article <a href=\"https:\/\/theoutline.com\/post\/8023\/kamala-harris-pete-buttigieg-centrist-child-syndrome?zd=3&#038;zi=tggsdgma\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Centrist-child syndrome<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nTwo of the Democratic party\u2019s most proudly moderate candidates seem to still be rebelling against their Marxist dads.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is a terrific article. I think I understand this better than even the author does. My maternal grand-father was a socialist (although he played the capitalist game pretty well). My mother married my father whose parents were Republican. I grew up as a Republican. Somewhere around my sophomore year in college, I did some research for an essay and had an awakening. As I have grown older, I have become a &#8220;what worksist&#8221; that understand the need for a healthy dose of socialism to go along with our capitalism. My daughter and her husband are not nearly as leftist as I have become. Her in-laws are staunch working-class Republicans.<\/p>\n<p>I know there are many counter-examples, but my experience has been that if your children don&#8217;t rebel against you, you have cheated. Actually, the problem may be being too doctrinaire. Maybe that is what they feel that they have to rebel, at least in some things.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Outline has the article Centrist-child syndrome. Two of the Democratic party\u2019s most proudly moderate candidates seem to still be rebelling against their Marxist dads. This is a terrific article. I think I understand this better than even the author does. My maternal grand-father was a socialist (although he played the capitalist game pretty well). [&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-28340","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\/28340","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=28340"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28340\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28341,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28340\/revisions\/28341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}