{"id":3692,"date":"2011-02-26T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-02-26T19:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/ronnie-raygun-unionist\/"},"modified":"2011-02-26T13:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-02-26T19:00:00","slug":"ronnie-raygun-unionist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/ronnie-raygun-unionist\/","title":{"rendered":"Ronnie Raygun, Unionist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2011\/02\/25\/flashback-reagan-union-right\/\">ThinkProgress \u00bb FLASHBACK: Ronald Reagan Called Union Membership \u2018One Of The Most Elemental Human Rights\u2019<\/a> <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Yet conservatives may be shocked to learn that their idol Reagan was once a union boss himself. <font style=\"background-color: #ffc000\">Reagan was the <\/font><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0001654\/bio\"><font style=\"background-color: #ffc000\">only president<\/font><\/a><font style=\"background-color: #ffc000\"> in American history to have belonged to a union<\/font>, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sag.org\/content\/about-us\">AFL-CIO affiliated<\/a> Screen Actors Guild. And he even <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sag.org\/ronald-reagan\">served six terms as president<\/a> of the organized labor group. Additionally, Reagan was a staunch advocate for the collective bargaining rights of one of the world\u2019s most famous and most influential trade unions, Poland\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.solidarnosc.org.pl\/en\/main-page.html\">Solidarity<\/a> movement.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2011\/02\/25\/flashback-reagan-union-right\/\">ThinkProgress \u00bb FLASHBACK: Ronald Reagan Called Union Membership \u2018One Of The Most Elemental Human Rights\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/02\/25\/opinion\/25krugman.html?_r=2&amp;src=ISMR_AP_LO_MST_FB\">Shock Doctrine, U.S.A. &#8211; NYTimes.com<\/a> <\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>From Chile in the 1970s onward, she suggested, right-wing ideologues have exploited crises to push through an agenda that has nothing to do with resolving those crises, and everything to do with imposing their vision of a harsher, more unequal, less democratic society. <\/p>\n<p>Which brings us to Wisconsin 2011, where the shock doctrine is on full display. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/02\/25\/opinion\/25krugman.html?_r=2&amp;src=ISMR_AP_LO_MST_FB\">Shock Doctrine, U.S.A. &#8211; NYTimes.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ThinkProgress \u00bb FLASHBACK: Ronald Reagan Called Union Membership \u2018One Of The Most Elemental Human Rights\u2019 Yet conservatives may be shocked to learn that their idol Reagan was once a union boss himself. Reagan was the only president in American history to have belonged to a union, the AFL-CIO affiliated Screen Actors Guild. And he even &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/ronnie-raygun-unionist\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Ronnie Raygun, Unionist<\/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":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nada"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3692","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=3692"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3692\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}