{"id":6827,"date":"2015-01-29T23:13:45","date_gmt":"2015-01-30T04:13:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/?p=6827"},"modified":"2015-01-30T23:55:16","modified_gmt":"2015-01-31T04:55:16","slug":"in-which-the-democrats-finally-get-a-clue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/2015\/01\/in-which-the-democrats-finally-get-a-clue\/","title":{"rendered":"In Which The Democrats Finally Get A Clue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/obama1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-2754\" src=\"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/obama1-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"obama1\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/obama1-300x199.jpg 300w, http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/obama1-150x99.jpg 150w, http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/obama1-400x266.jpg 400w, http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/obama1.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There is something truly odd about the wealthiest country no longer with the wealthiest middle class, and in which every major competitor\u2019s middle class is converging with ours\u2019 in standards of living. This is the real end of American exceptionalism, in which working hard in the middle class is like being on a treadmill rather than a track.<\/p>\n<p>Or to put it in another way: nothing Obama is proposing does more than spit in the wind of the soaring inequality of the last three decades. He would not even begin to preside over a society as equal as when Ronald Reagan was president. He\u2019s just trying to use government to nudge us back toward that sane, middle-class, democratic middle so essential to a functioning and health democracy.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dish.andrewsullivan.com\/2015\/01\/20\/in-which-the-democrats-finally-get-a-clue\/\">Read article: \u00a0 \u00a0In Which The Democrats Finally Get A Clue \u00ab The Dish<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is something truly odd about the wealthiest country no longer with the wealthiest middle class, and in which every major competitor\u2019s middle class is converging with ours\u2019 in standards of living. This is the real end of American exceptionalism, in which working hard in the middle class is like being on a treadmill rather&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2754,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[22,68,20],"tags":[403,42,87,586],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6827"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6827"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6827\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6829,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6827\/revisions\/6829"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}