{"id":3485,"date":"2010-11-02T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-11-02T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/qotd\/teddy-roosevelt-was-a-progressive-not-a-republican\/"},"modified":"2010-11-02T05:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-11-02T11:00:00","slug":"teddy-roosevelt-was-a-progressive-not-a-republican","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/qotd\/teddy-roosevelt-was-a-progressive-not-a-republican\/","title":{"rendered":"Teddy Roosevelt was a Progressive, Not a Republican"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&quot;The old parties are husks, with no real soul within either, divided on artificial lines, boss-ridden and privilege-controlled, each a jumble of incongruous elements, and neither daring to speak out wisely and fearlessly on what should be said on the vital issues of the day.&quot; <em>[mjh: Spoken more than 100 years ago!]<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&quot;Let individuals contribute as they desire; but let us prohibit in effective fashion all corporations from making contributions for any political purpose, directly or indirectly.&quot;&#160; <em>[mjh: Struck down by the \u201cConservative\u201d Supreme Court.]<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&quot;A typical vice of American politics is the avoidance of saying anything real on real issues.&quot;&#160; <\/p>\n<p>&quot;This country will not be a good place for any of us to live in unless we make it a good place for all of us to live in.&quot;&#160; &#8211;&#160; <b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.quotedb.com\/authors\/theodore-roosevelt\">Theodore Roosevelt<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p><strong>(Mind you, Teddy said and did a lot of things I don\u2019t agree with. I just chafe when Republicans claim they are the party of Teddy or Lincoln &#8212; in name only.)<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&quot;The old parties are husks, with no real soul within either, divided on artificial lines, boss-ridden and privilege-controlled, each a jumble of incongruous elements, and neither daring to speak out wisely and fearlessly on what should be said on the vital issues of the day.&quot; [mjh: Spoken more than 100 years ago!] &quot;Let individuals contribute &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/qotd\/teddy-roosevelt-was-a-progressive-not-a-republican\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Teddy Roosevelt was a Progressive, Not a Republican<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-qotd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3485"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3485\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}