{"id":2631,"date":"2010-04-13T21:53:12","date_gmt":"2010-04-13T21:53:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=2631"},"modified":"2010-04-13T21:53:12","modified_gmt":"2010-04-13T21:53:12","slug":"distant_cousins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=2631","title":{"rendered":"Distant Cousins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Andrew Sullivan points out that the Tories, the British conservative party, would be considered a <a href=\"http:\/\/andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com\/the_daily_dish\/2010\/04\/the-tory-manifesto.html\">hotbed of radical socialism in American politics<\/a>. They fully support their single-payer health care system, marriage equality for gays, public transit, and moving away from a carbon-based economy. <\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, American conservatives are currently obsessed with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/news\/politics\/war_room\/2010\/04\/08\/mcdonnell_slavery_virginia\">reviving Confederate pride<\/a>, removing all references to that <a href=\"http:\/\/tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com\/2010\/03\/conservative_bloc_dominates_latest_texas_textbooks.php\">humanist pansy Thomas Jefferson from history textbooks<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/stories\/0410\/35678.html\">repealing most or all of the Affordable Care Act<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>The fundamental difference between these two movements is that the Tories are looking to the future through a moderately conservative lens; American conservatives are fixated on a sanitized past as viewed through a glass darkly. If the Tories do win next month&#8217;s election, perhaps their sane counterparts here in the States will be a little bolder in confronting the babbling fringe that is currently holding a gun to the head of the Republican Party. <\/p>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/img.zemanta.com\/pixy.gif?w=695\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Andrew Sullivan points out that the Tories, the British conservative party, would be considered a hotbed of radical socialism in American politics. They fully support their single-payer health care system, marriage equality for gays, public transit, and moving away from a carbon-based economy. Meanwhile, American conservatives are currently obsessed with reviving Confederate pride, removing all <a href='https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=2631' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-1-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9Iwau-Gr","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2631","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2631"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2631\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}