{"id":1456,"date":"2009-08-04T07:55:29","date_gmt":"2009-08-04T13:55:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/?p=1456"},"modified":"2009-08-04T07:55:32","modified_gmt":"2009-08-04T13:55:32","slug":"thugs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/archives\/2009\/08\/04\/thugs\/","title":{"rendered":"thugs"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Both cases are distressingly telling examples of the authoritarian mentality so often found in right-wing politics &#8212; force and mob action to shut down actual discussion. It two sides of the same coin &#8212; the right in power versus the right out of power.<\/p>\n<p>Par for the course.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>(Via <a href=\"http:\/\/talkingpointsmemo.com\">Authoritarian Mindset -Talking Points Memo: by Joshua Micah Marshall<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>If you haven&#8217;t heard, right-wing groups are organizing &#8220;regular citizens&#8221; to show up at these town halls, and essentially heckle, boo, and disrupt the discussion.<\/p>\n<p>Sounds like the party of ideas to me <sigh>.<\/sigh><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Both cases are distressingly telling examples of the authoritarian mentality so often found in right-wing politics &#8212; force and mob action to shut down actual discussion. It two sides of the same coin &#8212; the right in power versus the right out of power. Par for the course. (Via Authoritarian Mindset -Talking Points Memo: by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[12],"tags":[184],"class_list":["post-1456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-health-care"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/sf4VN-thugs","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1456"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1456\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1457,"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1456\/revisions\/1457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}