{"id":844,"date":"2008-05-20T16:32:30","date_gmt":"2008-05-20T20:32:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/?p=844"},"modified":"2008-05-20T16:33:02","modified_gmt":"2008-05-20T20:33:02","slug":"of-labels-and-ideology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2008\/05\/20\/of-labels-and-ideology\/","title":{"rendered":"Of Labels and Ideology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Prompted by many things &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.vivianpaige.com\/2008\/05\/19\/opinion-please-can-the-tent-become-too-big\/\">Vivian&#8217;s question<\/a> about the size of the Democratic Party tent, and commenter James&#8217; <a href=\"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2008\/05\/02\/the-failure-of-conservatism\/#comment-47522\">objection to my post about the failure of conservatism<\/a> included &#8211; I&#8217;ve been thinking about the intersection of party, ideology, and actual results lately.  In the midst of that, I checked out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.publicwhip.org.uk\/election_crewe_and_nantwich_2008.php\">this nifty tool<\/a>.  Put out by The Public Whip, a UK non-profit dedicated to improving the civic process, it tries to help citizens understand whether the party that they&#8217;re voting for agrees with them on the issues.  While I wasn&#8217;t really surprised by the result &#8211; I didn&#8217;t line up with the part that I&#8217;ve historically identified with (and still do) &#8211; I was certainly surprised by the distance separating me and that party these days.   <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prompted by many things &#8211; Vivian&#8217;s question about the size of the Democratic Party tent, and commenter James&#8217; objection to my post about the failure of conservatism included &#8211; I&#8217;ve been thinking about the intersection of party, ideology, and actual results lately. In the midst of that, I checked out this nifty tool. Put out [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8,3,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-society","category-uk"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/844","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=844"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/844\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}