{"id":5090,"date":"2006-11-13T07:28:25","date_gmt":"2006-11-13T07:28:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=5090"},"modified":"2006-11-13T07:28:25","modified_gmt":"2006-11-13T07:28:25","slug":"an-analogy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=5090","title":{"rendered":"an analogy"},"content":{"rendered":"<table width=\"385\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"1\" cellspacing=\"5\">\n<tr bordercolor=\"#000000\">\n<th width=\"187\">The Sixties <\/th>\n<th width=\"188\">The 2000s <\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<tr align=\"left\" valign=\"top\">\n<td>1960 election: Reflects unusually high degree of ideological consensus. The main issue is the personality of the incumbent VP versus &quot;change.&quot; <\/td>\n<td>2000 election: Reflects unusually high degree of ideological consensus. The main issue is the personality of the incumbent VP versus &quot;change.&quot; <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr align=\"left\" valign=\"top\">\n<td>Series of national traumas: Assassinations of JFK, MLK, RFK, race riots, Kent State<\/td>\n<td>Series of national traumas: 9\/11, anthrax, Katrina <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr align=\"left\" valign=\"top\">\n<td>Escalating war in Southeast Asia <\/td>\n<td>Escalating war in <em>Southwest <\/em>Asia <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr align=\"left\" valign=\"top\">\n<td>Left mounts strong challenge to the ideological status quo (with a basis in cultural\/personal issues)<\/td>\n<td><em>Right <\/em>mounts strong challenge to the ideological status quo (with a basis in cultural\/personal issues)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr align=\"left\" valign=\"top\">\n<td>Ideological backlash: Nixon elected <\/td>\n<td>Ideological backlash: Democrats take Congress<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr align=\"left\" valign=\"top\">\n<td>Residue: cultural change in a libertarian direction, lingering resentment on the right, generally more conservative economic policies <\/td>\n<td>Residue: ??? <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Sixties The 2000s 1960 election: Reflects unusually high degree of ideological consensus. The main issue is the personality of the incumbent VP versus &quot;change.&quot; 2000 election: Reflects unusually high degree of ideological consensus. The main issue is the personality of the incumbent VP versus &quot;change.&quot; Series of national traumas: Assassinations of JFK, MLK, RFK, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-revitalizing-the-left"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5090","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5090"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5090\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}