{"id":7430,"date":"2011-09-06T09:55:07","date_gmt":"2011-09-06T14:55:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=7430"},"modified":"2011-09-06T09:55:07","modified_gmt":"2011-09-06T14:55:07","slug":"goodbye-to-all-that-reflections-of-a-gop-operative-who-left-the-cult","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2011\/09\/06\/goodbye-to-all-that-reflections-of-a-gop-operative-who-left-the-cult\/","title":{"rendered":"Goodbye to All That: Reflections of a GOP Operative Who Left the Cult"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have finally read the post <a title=\"Post on truthout.org\" href=\"http:\/\/www.truth-out.org\/goodbye-all-reflections-gop-operative-who-left-cult\/1314907779\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Goodbye to All That: Reflections of a GOP Operative Who Left the Cult<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It should have been evident to clear-eyed observers that the Republican Party is becoming less and less like a traditional political party in a representative democracy and becoming more like an apocalyptic cult, or one of the intensely ideological authoritarian parties of 20th century Europe. This trend has several implications, none of them pleasant.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I had seen this article on the truthout.org website for the past 3 days.\u00a0 I had a little trouble getting into it the first time I started reading it.\u00a0 When I read about it in the article <a title=\"Blue Mass Group posting\" href=\"http:\/\/bluemassgroup.com\/2011\/09\/a-must-read-its-a-cliche-but-its-true\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>A Must Read\u2026It\u2019s a cliche\u2026but it\u2019s true\u2026<\/strong><\/a>, I decided to give it another try.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s long, but it really does lay it all out there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have finally read the post Goodbye to All That: Reflections of a GOP Operative Who Left the Cult. It should have been evident to clear-eyed observers that the Republican Party is becoming less and less like a traditional political party in a representative democracy and becoming more like an apocalyptic cult, or one of [&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-7430","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\/7430","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=7430"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7430\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7431,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7430\/revisions\/7431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}