{"id":6214,"date":"2009-08-26T09:26:53","date_gmt":"2009-08-26T09:26:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2009\/08\/26\/discordant-democrats-vs-republ\/"},"modified":"2009-08-26T09:26:53","modified_gmt":"2009-08-26T09:26:53","slug":"discordant-democrats-vs-republ","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2009\/08\/26\/discordant-democrats-vs-republ\/","title":{"rendered":"Discordant Democrats vs. Republican Dittoheads"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Democratic Party represents true diversity and has elements in it that are as conservative as any Republican on some issues, as well as libertarians and even quasi-anarchists who are willing to bite the bullet and &#8220;show up&#8221; to have some kind of influence.  The Republican Party, in contrast, strictly polices itself and drives anyone with differing opinions into the swamp. A &#8220;differing opinion&#8221; is one not endorsed by Rush Limbaugh.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/quichemoraine.com\/2009\/08\/discordant-democrats-vs-republican-dittoheads\/\"><br \/>\nRead more at qm.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Democratic Party represents true diversity and has elements in it that are as conservative as any Republican on some issues, as well as libertarians and even quasi-anarchists who are willing to bite the bullet and &#8220;show up&#8221; to have some kind of influence. The Republican Party, in contrast, strictly polices itself and drives anyone &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2009\/08\/26\/discordant-democrats-vs-republ\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Discordant Democrats vs. Republican Dittoheads<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[4857,1755,859,893,548,5020],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-1Ce","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6214"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6214\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}