{"id":801,"date":"2015-11-25T06:57:08","date_gmt":"2015-11-25T11:57:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/madstone.net\/?p=801"},"modified":"2017-01-30T23:25:55","modified_gmt":"2017-01-31T04:25:55","slug":"center-left","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madstone.net\/?p=801","title":{"rendered":"Center-left"},"content":{"rendered":"

Possible essay topic I’m mulling over.<\/em><\/p>\n

I’m not gradually moving left on the American political spectrum because I have some love for governmental intervention (rather the opposite, I suspect).<\/p>\n

No, I’m moving left because most of the kindest people I know seem to be on that end of the spectrum.<\/p>\n

I have, with a little luck, a few decades left alive. I’d rather spend them working toward solutions to problems than being told that I need to be afraid of other humans who are also dealing with really bad problems.<\/p>\n

I can’t ignore the legacy of political maneuvering and disastrous political experiments of the last 100+ years, but if you can hold that legacy to one side and look at the people involved, I keep finding the bravest and kindest ones (the people I want to hang with) seem not to be on the far right.<\/p>\n

I know this isn’t much of a basis for making decisions on, but it feels… at least honest to the person I want to be.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Possible essay topic I’m mulling over. I’m not gradually moving left on the American political spectrum because I have some love for governmental intervention (rather the opposite, I suspect). No, I’m moving left because most of the kindest people I know seem to be on that end of the spectrum. I have, with a little … Continue reading “Center-left”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"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":[59,46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-aside","hentry","category-philosophizing","category-social-commentary","post_format-post-format-aside"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pgY3e-cV","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1010,"url":"https:\/\/madstone.net\/?p=1010","url_meta":{"origin":801,"position":0},"title":"WIP: “Dashing” fingerless gloves","author":"Jorah","date":"January 2, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"I took a couple of snaps of my current 'train project' (knitting I mainly work on while commuting). 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