{"id":3246,"date":"2022-04-25T02:14:52","date_gmt":"2022-04-25T09:14:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/?p=3246"},"modified":"2022-04-25T02:14:52","modified_gmt":"2022-04-25T09:14:52","slug":"the-modern-left","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/2022\/04\/25\/the-modern-left\/","title":{"rendered":"The Modern Left"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you have Sabrina Salvati, Russell Brand, Matt Taibbi, and Glenn Greenwald on one side of any argument, regardless of what it is–and on the other you have MSNBC hosts, and chirpy little professional Democrats like Robert Reich … <\/p>\n

Which side you choose tells you, me, and the whole world everything there is to know, about the true state of your mind and soul, at least politically and socially and intellectually.<\/p>\n

There are plenty of people in the first group who hold smart views in common across a wide range of topics and issues. They generally have smaller voices, less visible platforms, and way less money.<\/p>\n

In the second group, you’ve got a general consensus of half-informed partisans and well-greased career liars, who are wrong either because they are well-paid to be loudly wrong, or who hold neo-liberal views due to a reliance on a kind of comforting secular religion, based on blind faith instead of actual critical thinking–which, to be fair, they may simply lack the capacity for. It could also be a lack of time, or patience, or historical memory, or tolerance for bleak realities … it’s … a lack of something.<\/p>\n

So here’s the test case that meets all of the above criteria perfectly<\/a>. <\/p>\n

If you’re reading me with uncommon alertness, and are plugged in and awake enough this week, you might already know the exact issue I’m dancing around; the particular issue addressed in the video. <\/p>\n

Next week there will be another. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If you have Sabrina Salvati, Russell Brand, Matt Taibbi, and Glenn Greenwald on one side of any argument, regardless of what it is–and on the other you have MSNBC hosts, and chirpy little professional Democrats like Robert Reich … Which side you choose tells you, me, and the whole world everything there is to know, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3246"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3246\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3247,"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3246\/revisions\/3247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}