{"id":973,"date":"2016-04-29T10:32:37","date_gmt":"2016-04-29T14:32:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/publicskeleton.com\/media\/?p=973"},"modified":"2016-04-30T10:48:15","modified_gmt":"2016-04-30T14:48:15","slug":"bernie-sanders-isnt-a-radical-noam-chomsky-is-exactly-right-regarding-how-mainstream-bernies-policies-really-are","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/publicskeleton.com\/media\/2016\/04\/29\/bernie-sanders-isnt-a-radical-noam-chomsky-is-exactly-right-regarding-how-mainstream-bernies-policies-really-are\/","title":{"rendered":"Bernie Sanders isn\u2019t a radical: Noam Chomsky is exactly right regarding how mainstream Bernie\u2019s policies really are"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[pe2-image src=&#8221;https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/-_Hi1OapRbuo\/VyS-evXke2I\/AAAAAAAABH0\/CTwlzS9XOvQc8Qtih5YmxNRveDqJ7Hg0QCHM\/s144-c-o\/20160429_1032%2BNoam%2BChomsky%2Bsays%2BBernie%2BSanders%2527%2Bpolicies%2Bare%2Bactually%2Bmainstream%2B%2528Salon%2529.jpg&#8221; href=&#8221;https:\/\/picasaweb.google.com\/102930737536139888016\/CampaignV4April#6279353215781993314&#8243; caption=&#8221;Bernie Sanders isn\u2019t a radical: Noam Chomsky is exactly right regarding how mainstream Bernie\u2019s policies really are By Sean Illing, Salon (April 29, 2016 10:32 am EDT) &#8212; Lost in the discussions about Bernie Sanders\u2019s \u201csocialism\u201d is an obvious and important fact: What he\u2019s actually proposing is not only not radical \u2013 it\u2019s mainstream. Sanders decided not to dodge the \u201csocialist\u201d label and instead own it by contextualizing it in the broader American tradition. He even gave a sweeping speech in which he grounded his philosophy in the tradition of FDR:\u201cAlmost everything he [FDR] proposed was called \u2018socialist.\u2019 Social Security, which transformed life for the elderly in this country was \u2018socialist.\u2019   http:\/\/publicskeleton.com\/media\/?p=973&#8243; type=&#8221;image&#8221; alt=&#8221;20160429_1032 Noam Chomsky says Bernie Sanders&#8217; policies are actually mainstream (Salon).jpg&#8221; ] Bernie Sanders isn\u2019t a radical: Noam Chomsky is exactly right regarding how mainstream Bernie\u2019s policies really are<br \/>\n By Sean Illing, Salon<\/p>\n<p> (April 29, 2016 10:32 am EDT) &#8212; Lost in the discussions about Bernie Sanders\u2019s \u201csocialism\u201d is an obvious and important fact: What he\u2019s actually proposing is not only not radical \u2013 it\u2019s mainstream. Sanders decided not to dodge the \u201csocialist\u201d label and instead own it by contextualizing it in the broader American tradition. <\/p>\n<p>He even gave a sweeping speech in which he grounded his philosophy in the tradition of FDR:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAlmost everything he [FDR] proposed was called \u2018socialist.\u2019 Social Security, which transformed life for the elderly in this country was \u2018socialist.\u2019 <\/p>\n<p>(<a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/2016\/04\/29\/bernie_sanders_isnt_a_radical_noam_chomsky_is_exactly_right_regarding_how_mainstream_bernies_policies_really_are\/\">Read more<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[pe2-image src=&#8221;https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/-_Hi1OapRbuo\/VyS-evXke2I\/AAAAAAAABH0\/CTwlzS9XOvQc8Qtih5YmxNRveDqJ7Hg0QCHM\/s144-c-o\/20160429_1032%2BNoam%2BChomsky%2Bsays%2BBernie%2BSanders%2527%2Bpolicies%2Bare%2Bactually%2Bmainstream%2B%2528Salon%2529.jpg&#8221; href=&#8221;https:\/\/picasaweb.google.com\/102930737536139888016\/CampaignV4April#6279353215781993314&#8243; caption=&#8221;Bernie Sanders isn\u2019t a radical: Noam Chomsky is exactly right regarding how mainstream Bernie\u2019s policies really are By Sean Illing, Salon (April 29, 2016 10:32 am EDT) &#8212; Lost in the discussions about Bernie Sanders\u2019s \u201csocialism\u201d is an obvious and important fact: What he\u2019s actually proposing is not only not radical \u2013 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[106,167,29,84],"tags":[107,129,682,680,681,47,126,550,434,679],"class_list":["post-973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bernie-sanders-2016","category-campaign-2016","category-news","category-politics","tag-bernie-sanders","tag-campaign-2016","tag-fdr","tag-mainstream","tag-newdeal","tag-noam-chomsky","tag-political-revolution","tag-presidential-campaign-2016","tag-presidential-primary","tag-socialism","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/publicskeleton.com\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/973","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/publicskeleton.com\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/publicskeleton.com\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/publicskeleton.com\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/publicskeleton.com\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=973"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/publicskeleton.com\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/973\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":975,"href":"https:\/\/publicskeleton.com\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/973\/revisions\/975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/publicskeleton.com\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/publicskeleton.com\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/publicskeleton.com\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}