{"id":904,"date":"2012-02-19T10:10:32","date_gmt":"2012-02-19T14:10:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wb4eje.com\/?p=904"},"modified":"2012-02-19T10:23:52","modified_gmt":"2012-02-19T14:23:52","slug":"democrats-have-been-doing-this-for-a-long-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.n4rfc.com\/?p=904","title":{"rendered":"Democrats have been doing this for a long time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I suspect that newcomers to observing politics think that the Democrats have taken a sudden turn to the left. \u00a0But the truth is, &#8220;progressives&#8221; have been at this for a long time.<\/p>\n<p>Here is a little poem that dates back over 60 years that shows that this behavior is not new.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_905\" style=\"width: 217px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.n4rfc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/DemocratPoem.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-905\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-905\" title=\"DemocratPoem\" src=\"https:\/\/www.n4rfc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/DemocratPoem-207x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"207\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.n4rfc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/DemocratPoem-207x300.jpg 207w, https:\/\/www.n4rfc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/DemocratPoem.jpg 673w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 207px) 100vw, 207px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-905\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Democrat poem from 1949 (click to see full size)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The progressive movement started in the early 2oth Century. \u00a0The goal was to cure many of the ills of American society that were created during the industrial expansion during the late 19th Century. \u00a0Many social programs such as public education, the Interstate Commerce Act, environmental conservation, and food and drug laws were products of the early progressive movement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I suspect that newcomers to observing politics think that the Democrats have taken a sudden turn to the left. \u00a0But the truth is, &#8220;progressives&#8221; have been at this for a long time. Here is a little poem that dates back over 60 years that shows that this behavior is not new. The progressive movement started [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-political"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.n4rfc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/904","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.n4rfc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.n4rfc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.n4rfc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.n4rfc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=904"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.n4rfc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/904\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":910,"href":"https:\/\/www.n4rfc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/904\/revisions\/910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.n4rfc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.n4rfc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.n4rfc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}