{"id":61,"date":"2008-01-25T02:21:44","date_gmt":"2008-01-25T09:21:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/xsml\/archives\/61"},"modified":"2008-01-25T02:21:44","modified_gmt":"2008-01-25T09:21:44","slug":"quotes-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/2008\/01\/25\/quotes-4\/","title":{"rendered":"quotes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Chicago Reader <a href=\"http:\/\/digbysblog.blogspot.com\/2008\/01\/da-man-by-digby-hey-heres-treat-to-read.html\">quoted<\/a> and paraphrased:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>From Adlai Stevenson to John Kerry, high-minded liberals have acted as if they were blind to the root feelings that feed the followers of politicians like Nixon and Bush. Instead, they alternate between expecting a fair fight on the issues (and getting swiftboated instead) and imagining that once people realize what a bad person Nixon or Bush is, the people will turn against him.<\/p>\n<p>Conservatism isn\u2019t just a temporary delusion or a wacky distraction. In Perlstein\u2019s view, it\u2019s a deep-seated expression of human nature&#8230;His point: \u201cWe\u2019re not going to eliminate them. The best we can do is to win our 51 percent. What\u2019s fascinating is that we share this country together.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Followed by:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>He&#8217;s right about this. Conservatism is not an aberration. It is a facet of human nature and a permanent fixture in American life. At the moment they have a successful political movement that first grew out of a genuine grassroots uprising and was soon funded by the aristocrats (who are always conservatives) to help them protect their interests.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Chicago Reader quoted and paraphrased: From Adlai Stevenson to John Kerry, high-minded liberals have acted as if they were blind to the root feelings that feed the followers of politicians like Nixon and Bush. Instead, they alternate between expecting a fair fight on the issues (and getting swiftboated instead) and imagining that once people&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}