{"id":1045,"date":"2011-09-01T18:59:24","date_gmt":"2011-09-02T01:59:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theswillbucket.com\/?p=1045"},"modified":"2011-11-12T05:25:39","modified_gmt":"2011-11-12T13:25:39","slug":"progressives-should-treat-ron-paul-with-extreme-caution-cuddly-libertarian-has-some-very-dark-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/theswillbucket.com\/?p=1045","title":{"rendered":"Progressives Should Treat Ron Paul with Extreme Caution &#8212; &#8216;Cuddly&#8217; Libertarian Has Some Very Dark Politics"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><strong>He&#8217;s anti-woman, anti-gay, anti-black, anti-senior-citizen, anti-equality and<\/strong><strong> anti-education, and that&#8217;s just the start, the\u00c2\u00a0author says.<\/strong><\/div>\n<div>AlterNet \/ <em>By Adele M. Stan <\/em><\/div>\n<div>\n<div>&#8220;There are few things as maddening in a maddening political season as the warm and fuzzy feelings some progressives evince for Rep. Ron Paul of Texas, the Republican presidential candidate. &#8220;The anti-war Republican,&#8221; people say, as if that&#8217;s good enough.&#8221;<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/www.alternet.org\/teaparty\/152192\/5_reasons_progressives_should_treat_ron_paul_with_extreme_caution_--_'cuddly'_libertarian_has_some_very_dark_politics\">(Read article here)<\/a><\/div>\n<div>\u00c2\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/theswillbucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/blogteaser_ronpaulrevolution.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1046 aligncenter\" title=\"blogteaser_ronpaulrevolution\" src=\"http:\/\/theswillbucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/blogteaser_ronpaulrevolution.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"309\" height=\"220\" srcset=\"http:\/\/theswillbucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/blogteaser_ronpaulrevolution.jpg 309w, http:\/\/theswillbucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/blogteaser_ronpaulrevolution-300x213.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 309px) 100vw, 309px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He&#8217;s anti-woman, anti-gay, anti-black, anti-senior-citizen, anti-equality and anti-education, and that&#8217;s just the start, the\u00c2\u00a0author says. AlterNet \/ By Adele M. Stan &#8220;There are few things as maddening in a maddening political season as the warm and fuzzy feelings some progressives evince for Rep. Ron Paul of Texas, the Republican presidential candidate. &#8220;The anti-war Republican,&#8221; people [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1,6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/theswillbucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1045"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/theswillbucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/theswillbucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theswillbucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theswillbucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1045"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/theswillbucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1045\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/theswillbucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theswillbucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theswillbucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}