{"id":5031,"date":"2017-06-28T12:18:18","date_gmt":"2017-06-28T10:18:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/?p=5031"},"modified":"2017-06-28T12:18:18","modified_gmt":"2017-06-28T10:18:18","slug":"american-v-british-left","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/5031\/","title":{"rendered":"American v British Left"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thezman.com\/wordpress\/?p=10685\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">This<\/a> is a good paragraph from the Zman on the differences between the American and British political Left:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The quest for spiritual egalitarianism in America is a very different thing than the material egalitarianism of Europe. A Jeremy Corbyn has to kit himself out in the garb of the working man in order to be authentically Left. In America, a rich white woman like Elizabeth Warren can lecture us about the poor, from the steps of her mansion, as she is decked out in a designer outfit. The reason is she cares more for the spiritual well-being of the poor than their material condition. She fears the poor are being excluded.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s true that the Left in the UK have to conceal their wealth while weeping crocodile tears for the poor, whereas in the US they don&#8217;t even bother. France is a curious mix of the two, where multi-millionaire socialists express concerns about material inequality in society.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a good paragraph from the Zman on the differences between the American and British political Left: The quest for spiritual egalitarianism in America is a very different thing than the material egalitarianism of Europe. A Jeremy Corbyn has &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/5031\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[67,20,42,44],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5031"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5031"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5031\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5032,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5031\/revisions\/5032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}