{"id":27437,"date":"2018-01-24T16:40:35","date_gmt":"2018-01-24T21:40:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=27437"},"modified":"2018-01-24T16:43:14","modified_gmt":"2018-01-24T21:43:14","slug":"more-partisan-about-the-same-stuff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=27437","title":{"rendered":"More Partisan About The Same Stuff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The US has always been divided on issues. But it used to be that the kinds of problems we argue about today were disagreements within a party or were not partisan at all - there were factions everywhere. But...<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> <a href=\"https:\/\/fivethirtyeight.com\/features\/politics-is-more-partisan-now-but-its-not-more-divisive\/\">The current moment<\/a> feels divisive because major policy and political questions are \u201csorted\u201d between the parties \u2014 Republicans are mostly unified around one set of answers, and Democrats are mostly unified around another.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I blame Obama.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US has always been divided on issues. But it used to be that the kinds of problems we argue about today were disagreements within a party or were not partisan at all - there were factions everywhere. But... The current moment feels divisive because major policy and political questions are \u201csorted\u201d between the parties [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27437","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=27437"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27437\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27441,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27437\/revisions\/27441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}