{"id":8971,"date":"2010-10-27T10:52:10","date_gmt":"2010-10-27T10:52:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2010\/10\/27\/21st-century-politics-in-ameri\/"},"modified":"2010-10-27T10:52:10","modified_gmt":"2010-10-27T10:52:10","slug":"21st-century-politics-in-ameri","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2010\/10\/27\/21st-century-politics-in-ameri\/","title":{"rendered":"21st Century Politics in America"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The following composite image represents what the Tea Party stands for.  It is the image of the Libertarian movement, like it or not.  It is what today&#8217;s Republican Party stands for.<\/p>\n<p>It is what you get if you don&#8217;t vote next Tuesday.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/472\/files\/2012\/04\/i-a589e465d3de71cee045d4e6afde481f-Rand_Paul_Tim_Profitt_Head_Stomping.jpg?w=604\" alt=\"i-a589e465d3de71cee045d4e6afde481f-Rand_Paul_Tim_Profitt_Head_Stomping.jpg\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Top: Rand Paul (right) and one of his campaign workers, Tim Profitt.  Bottom: Tim Profitt stomping the head of a woman who disagrees with Rand Paul.  <\/em><\/div>\n<p>It is what you get if you don&#8217;t vote next Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/pollfinder.sos.state.mn.us\/\">If you are in Minnesota, here is how to find your polling place. <\/a> Elsewhere, there are similar resources. This  is not hard .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The following composite image represents what the Tea Party stands for. It is the image of the Libertarian movement, like it or not. It is what today&#8217;s Republican Party stands for. It is what you get if you don&#8217;t vote next Tuesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[33,306,3868],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-2kH","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8971"}],"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=8971"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8971\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}