{"id":655,"date":"2007-12-31T17:34:16","date_gmt":"2007-12-31T17:34:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/2007\/12\/31\/democrats-and-republicans\/"},"modified":"2007-12-31T17:34:16","modified_gmt":"2007-12-31T17:34:16","slug":"democrats-and-republicans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/2007\/12\/31\/democrats-and-republicans\/","title":{"rendered":"Democrats and Republicans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was thinking the other day (and as an aside, shouldn&#8217;t virtually all blog entries really start that way?), that both the Democratic and Republican parties are driven by the strong desire to learn the lessons of the 1930s &#8212; to avoid the catastrophic mistakes that led to World War II. The Republicans are afraid of the U.S. becoming Neville Chamberlain&#8217;s England &#8212; the infamous appeaser state. Meanwhile, we Democrats are afraid of the U.S. trying really hard to avoid becoming Neville Chamberlain&#8217;s England and in the process becoming Germany.<br \/>\nSo, basically, we&#8217;re afraid of Republicans.<br \/>\n(And this, by the way, is why I heart Obama. My fondest wish for this election is a leader who doesn&#8217;t fear or dislike half the country.)<br \/>\nHappy new years to ya,<br \/>\n-Cecil<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was thinking the other day (and as an aside, shouldn&#8217;t virtually all blog entries really start that way?), that both the Democratic and Republican parties are driven by the strong desire to learn the lessons of the 1930s &#8212; to avoid the catastrophic mistakes that led to World War II. The Republicans are afraid [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-extreme-punditry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}