{"id":116028,"date":"2021-08-15T12:18:00","date_gmt":"2021-08-15T17:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/astrologyblogger.com\/?guid=dd36b0f8624b2660abfc63b42b954a92"},"modified":"2021-08-15T12:18:00","modified_gmt":"2021-08-15T17:18:00","slug":"will-the-authoritarians-their-useful-idiots-win-thom-hartmann","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/astrologyblogger.com\/?p=116028","title":{"rendered":"Will the Authoritarians &amp; Their Useful Idiots Win? &#8211; Thom Hartmann"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/StarsOverWashington\/~4\/5t-TosCP0UQ\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sunday August 15, 2021: Here&#8217;s a recent segment from progressive broadcaster and author Thom Hartmann on Why do Conservatives want America to fail? <\/p>\n<p>This disturbing topic always brings to mind Grover Norquist and his urge to &#8216;shrink the US government so small it can be drowned in a bath tub&#8217; &#8211; which was an urge and a promise! Because: is America drowning now? For decades the GOP and its wealthy<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/astrologyblogger.com\/?p=116028\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"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","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[],"tags":[1306,8124,8542,1569,1107,14607,1318,1830,2289,14608,2431],"class_list":["post-116028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-america","tag-authoritarianism","tag-democratic-socialism","tag-eclipses","tag-gop","tag-mussolini","tag-republican-party","tag-republicans","tag-socialism","tag-statism-corporatism-fascism","tag-thom-hartmann"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pekXVE-ubq","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/astrologyblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116028"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/astrologyblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/astrologyblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astrologyblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astrologyblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=116028"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/astrologyblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116028\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":116029,"href":"https:\/\/astrologyblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116028\/revisions\/116029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/astrologyblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=116028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astrologyblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=116028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astrologyblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=116028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}