{"id":9493,"date":"2020-08-19T17:19:00","date_gmt":"2020-08-19T21:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/?p=9493"},"modified":"2020-08-17T17:17:37","modified_gmt":"2020-08-17T21:17:37","slug":"is-maga-pro-social-democrat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/2020\/08\/19\/is-maga-pro-social-democrat\/","title":{"rendered":"Is MAGA pro-Social Democrat?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>When people use Make America Great Again, the question is often posed as to what period? I often see the assertion to the late 1940s through the 1950s, which was before the removal of segregation. These are not usually MAGA supporters, but let&#8217;s hypothetically say this is true.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Something that came to mind is this was also a period when the United States was effectively fairly similar to social democratic countries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Unions were very strong. The CEOs of companies made 20x more than average workers rather than hundreds to thousands. The inequality we see between the middle class and 0.1% was not as great.<\/li><li>Social Security and Medicare and Medicaid were just starting and heavily funded popular programs ensuring people were pretty well taken care of.<\/li><li>The G.I. Bill ensure a huge number of men and some women attended college for free.<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p>If this is indeed the period of time to which they are alluding, then I wonder why the despise the policies that helped make it so great. I often see references to them as Communist. Which was feared during this period.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When people use Make America Great Again, the question is often posed as to what period? I often see the assertion to the late 1940s through the 1950s, which was before the removal of segregation. These are not usually MAGA supporters, but let&#8217;s hypothetically say this is true. Something that came to mind is this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1238],"tags":[3558,3559,3556,3555,3553,3554,3557],"class_list":["post-9493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nationalism-2","tag-greatest-generation","tag-make-america-great-again","tag-medicaid","tag-medicare","tag-social-democracy","tag-social-security","tag-unions"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1rUBW-2t7","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9493\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}