{"id":1112,"date":"2007-04-06T12:48:20","date_gmt":"2007-04-06T17:48:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/2007\/04\/06\/political-see-saw\/"},"modified":"2007-04-06T12:52:45","modified_gmt":"2007-04-06T17:52:45","slug":"political-see-saw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/2007\/04\/06\/political-see-saw\/","title":{"rendered":"political see-saw…"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Looking back over my recent posts, I’m surprised at how much hostility I’m expressing about this Administration’s antics. I sound like the Neocons must’ve sounded as the Clinton years drug on and on – sitting in their little think-tanks dreaming of taking over the government. I was just watching a video on t·r·u·t·h·o·u·t<\/strong><\/a>.org. They were talking about a film, the thesis of which was that  Nixon,<\/strong> Ford,<\/strong> Reagan,<\/strong> Bush1 , <\/sub><\/strong>and Bush2<\/sub><\/strong> have basically been about undoing the Civil Rights Movement[s] of the 1960’s.<\/p>\n

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As simplistic as that seems, it feels right. I feel naive for not knowing it intuitively. I guess I’m so much a child of the 1960-1968 era that I don’t realize what a cataclysmic change that time was. I remember the hatred and prejudice in the South of my youth and the incredulity of people that we would "oppose" a war. But somehow, I guess I thought those ideas of Civil Rights and Peace were so obviously right that the struggle was over. It never occurred to me that it had been a hundred years since the Civil War, and that in spite of all that carnage, it still wasn’t over in my lifetime.<\/p>\n

The American experiment claims that people of all kinds can live together in harmony. It may be true that people can live together, but it’s damned hard work, and the harmony part is questionable. It feels like "All Men Are Created Equal" is still more of a question than a principle – whether it’s race, religion, sex, gender preference, class, or wealth that separates us. That piece of the human kind that controls prejudice is a potent force, not easily tamed.<\/p>\n

And it’s alive in my mind too. I can see it in my own hostility towards this Administration. So, I guess I’m as much a part of the political see-saw as any. And I reckon we’ll go up and down until the end of time…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Looking back over my recent posts, I’m surprised at how much hostility I’m expressing about this Administration’s antics. I sound like the Neocons must’ve sounded as the Clinton years drug on and on – sitting in their little think-tanks dreaming of taking over the government. I was just watching a video on t·r·u·t·h·o·u·t.org. They were […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1112\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}