{"id":22702,"date":"2015-07-08T11:55:06","date_gmt":"2015-07-08T11:55:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=22702"},"modified":"2015-07-08T14:33:31","modified_gmt":"2015-07-08T14:33:31","slug":"social-anxiety","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=22702","title":{"rendered":"Social Anxiety Disorder"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Sanders proudly <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2015\/jul\/07\/why-do-so-many-democrats-support-bernie-sanders\">calls himself \u201ca socialist\u201d.<\/a> So why is a lover of communism \u2013 an evil socialist hell-bent on the destruction of good-and-proper capitalism \u2013 doing so well in a political contest in America? Are we finally gearing up for a violent uprising of the proletariat?<\/p>\n<p>Not quite: even the word \u201csocialist\u201d just isn\u2019t that terrible anymore.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yeah, um, no.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/2016-election\/could-be-bernie-sanders-biggest-general-election-challenge-n388071\" rel=\"nofollow\">While no national<\/a> poll has yet to test Sanders in a trial heat against the Republican field, a June 2015 Gallup poll found that being a self-described socialist -- as Sanders is -- is <strong>more unpopular for a presidential candidate than being an evangelical Christian, Muslim or atheist.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><b>According to the poll, 50 percent said they wouldn't vote for a socialist, compared with 40 percent who wouldn't vote for an atheist<\/b>, 38 percent for a Muslim and 25 percent for an evangelical Christian.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\nIt bears mentioning that Sanders isn't actually a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newrepublic.com\/article\/121680\/bernie-sanders-democratic-socialist-not-just-socialist\">socialist<\/a>. Because, among other things, he's not calling for the state to take over the means of production. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sanders proudly calls himself \u201ca socialist\u201d. So why is a lover of communism \u2013 an evil socialist hell-bent on the destruction of good-and-proper capitalism \u2013 doing so well in a political contest in America? Are we finally gearing up for a violent uprising of the proletariat? Not quite: even the word \u201csocialist\u201d just isn\u2019t that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-election"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22702","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22702"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22702\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22710,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22702\/revisions\/22710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}