{"id":2152,"date":"2004-01-20T02:38:47","date_gmt":"2004-01-20T18:38:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/01\/20\/the-one-party-america\/"},"modified":"2019-12-09T15:16:05","modified_gmt":"2019-12-09T23:16:05","slug":"the-one-party-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/01\/20\/the-one-party-america\/","title":{"rendered":"The one-party America"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:12078,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.prospect.org\\\/print\\\/V15\\\/2\\\/kuttner-r.html&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.prospect.org\\\/print\\\/V15\\\/2\\\/kuttner-r.html&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>Highly recommended reading: The American Prospect&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.prospect.org\/print\/V15\/2\/kuttner-r.html\" title=\"America as a One-Party State\">America as a One-Party State<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  America has had periods of single-party dominance before. It happened under FDR&#8217;s New Deal, in the Republican 1920s and in the early 19th-century &#8220;Era of Good Feeling.&#8221; But if President Bush is re-elected, we will be close to a tipping point of fundamental change in the political system itself. The United States could become a nation in which the dominant party rules for a prolonged period, marginalizes a token opposition and is extremely difficult to dislodge because democracy itself is rigged. This would be unprecedented in U.S. history.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>iTunes:<\/strong> &#8220;Liar (1991)&#8221; by Queen from the album <em>Queen<\/em> (1973, 6:26).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>America has had periods of single-party dominance before. It happened under FDR&#8217;s New Deal, in the Republican 1920s and in the early 19th-century &#8216;Era of Good Feeling.&#8217; But if President Bush is re-elected, we will be close to a tipping point of fundamental change in the political system itself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2042],"tags":[14],"class_list":["post-2152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2152\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}