{"id":1707,"date":"2015-04-27T16:06:04","date_gmt":"2015-04-27T20:06:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/?p=1707"},"modified":"2017-01-10T20:03:41","modified_gmt":"2017-01-11T01:03:41","slug":"democratic-party-graveyard-of-movements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/?p=1707","title":{"rendered":"Democratic Party: Graveyard Of Movements"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Alright, US Left, time for a little history lesson \u2013 and a cautionary tale. Can any of you out there name a single popular democratic people’s movement for peace, liberty or social\/economic justice which wasn’t finally at some point infiltrated, co-opted and bled to death by the Democratic Party? Anybody?<\/p>\n

Bueller?<\/p>\n

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…and for context, here’s some more Democratic Party movement co-opting tomfoolery:
\nIt’s Going To Be A New Day,<\/a><\/strong> November 2006
\nWisconsin \u2013 Look Out Behind You,<\/strong><\/a> February 2011
\n“Occupy” Movement: Beware the Vampire,<\/strong><\/a> October 2011
\nWe Are The 1%,<\/strong><\/a> October 2011
\nInfiltrator,<\/strong><\/a> October 2011
\nOccupy DC Visits Democratic Party Fundraiser,<\/strong><\/a> December 2011
\n“99% Spring”: 100% Bullshit,<\/strong><\/a> April 2012
\nObama’s March On Washington Anniversary Speech, Condensed,<\/strong><\/a> August 2013<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Alright, US Left, time for a little history lesson \u2013 and a cautionary tale. Can any of you out there name a single popular democratic people’s movement for peace, liberty or social\/economic justice which wasn’t finally at some point infiltrated, co-opted and bled to death by the Democratic Party? Anybody? Bueller? 11×17 inch medium-res grayscale […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[721,19,7,74,44,5,10,392,132,9],"tags":[646,647,83,188,1464,159],"class_list":["post-1707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2016-election","category-economy","category-elections","category-environment","category-globalization","category-liberty","category-media","category-occupy","category-party-animals","category-war-and-peace","tag-blacklivesmatter","tag-civil-rights","tag-feminism","tag-labor","tag-occupy","tag-peace"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1707","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1707"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1707\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2173,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1707\/revisions\/2173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}