{"id":29286,"date":"2022-01-08T11:15:46","date_gmt":"2022-01-08T16:15:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=29286"},"modified":"2022-01-08T11:15:46","modified_gmt":"2022-01-08T16:15:46","slug":"the-next-us-civil-war-is-already-here-we-just-refuse-to-see-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2022\/01\/08\/the-next-us-civil-war-is-already-here-we-just-refuse-to-see-it\/","title":{"rendered":"The next US civil war is already here \u2013 we just refuse to see it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>The Guardian <\/em>has the opinion piece <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jan\/04\/next-us-civil-war-already-here-we-refuse-to-see-it\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The next US civil war is already here \u2013 we just refuse to see it<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nThe United States needs to recover its revolutionary spirit, and I don\u2019t mean that as some kind of inspirational quote. I mean that, if it is to survive, the United States will have to recover its revolutionary spirit. The crises the United States now faces in its basic governmental functions are so profound that they require starting over.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This article is a perfect example of the fact that coming up with solutions is far  harder than identifying the problem.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Guardian has the opinion piece The next US civil war is already here \u2013 we just refuse to see it. The United States needs to recover its revolutionary spirit, and I don\u2019t mean that as some kind of inspirational quote. I mean that, if it is to survive, the United States will have 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-29286","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\/29286","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=29286"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29286\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29287,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29286\/revisions\/29287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}