{"id":827,"date":"2024-04-10T13:39:28","date_gmt":"2024-04-10T13:39:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2024\/04\/10\/political-perceptions\/"},"modified":"2024-04-10T13:39:28","modified_gmt":"2024-04-10T13:39:28","slug":"political-perceptions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2024\/04\/10\/political-perceptions\/","title":{"rendered":"Political Perceptions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 13pt;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/slate.com\/news-and-politics\/2024\/04\/no-labels-biden-democrats-trump-third-party-fail.html\">Only a leftard<\/a> could come up with this&#0160; knee-slappingly risible explanation why &#39;No Labels&#39; didn&#39;t stick:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"slate-paragraph slate-graf\" data-uri=\"slate.com\/_components\/slate-paragraph\/instances\/clurhhbln001p3b6xdzeyccgs@published\" data-word-count=\"96\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">The other problem with the No Labels operation is that there already is a moderate, bipartisanship-minded political faction in the United States. It is called the Democratic Party. For better or for worse, that party continues to be the home of nearly all of the remaining \u201cinstitutionalists\u201d in U.S. politics, and party leadership has repeatedly, over the past decade, passed up opportunities to engage in retaliatory procedural maneuvering in response to GOP constitutional hardball, preferring instead to stand up for a long-vanished consensus politics that has virtually no support on the other side of the aisle.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"slate-paragraph slate-graf\" data-uri=\"slate.com\/_components\/slate-paragraph\/instances\/clurhhbms001q3b6xde9e5e4c@published\" data-word-count=\"170\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">President Joe Biden not only leads that institutionalist party, but he is also its most vocal and successful backer of bipartisanship as a governing and political philosophy.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Only a leftard could come up with this&#0160; knee-slappingly risible explanation why &#39;No Labels&#39; didn&#39;t stick: The other problem with the No Labels operation is that there already is a moderate, bipartisanship-minded political faction in the United States. It is called the Democratic Party. For better or for worse, that party continues to be the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2024\/04\/10\/political-perceptions\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Political Perceptions&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[217],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-political-projection"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/827","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=827"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/827\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}