{"id":385388,"date":"2018-11-17T04:34:51","date_gmt":"2018-11-17T03:34:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/the-revolutions-here-please-excuse-me-while-i-laugh\/"},"modified":"2018-11-17T04:34:51","modified_gmt":"2018-11-17T03:34:51","slug":"the-revolutions-here-please-excuse-me-while-i-laugh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/the-revolutions-here-please-excuse-me-while-i-laugh\/","title":{"rendered":"The Revolution\u2019s Here, Please Excuse Me While I Laugh"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The revolution\u2019s here
No one can lead you off your path
You\u2019ll try to change the world
So please excuse me while I laugh
Yo, I heard it\u2019s said the revolution won\u2019t be televised
But in the land of milk and honey there\u2019s a date you gotta sell it by<\/p>\n

\u2014 Talib Kweli, Beautiful Struggle<\/i><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

There was, at least in theory, a lot of stories to be had during the 2018 midterms. These days the news is on 24\/7, but it says less in a whole week than a serious person could in five minutes. Drifting through the cracks was any notion of that \u201cleft flank\u201d of the Democratic Party, given momentum by the imperialist Blue (sheep) Dog Bernie Sanders in 2016.<\/p>\n

Where on earth were Sanders and the issues he brought to light during his campaign? Could the \u201csocialist\u201d Bernie Sanders really have been satisfied with Nancy Pelosi\u2019s victory lap: \u201cLet\u2019s hear it for pre-existing conditions.\u201d Where was single payer?<\/a> 15 bucks an hour? <\/a>Free college tuition? <\/a>Was Wall St. even mentioned this year? <\/a>We should check Bernie\u2019s pulse to make sure this isn\u2019t a Weekend At Bernie\u2019s <\/i>situation.<\/p>\n

The issues that Sanders made popular were left for dead as he and everyone else scrambled to stop Trumpism in its tracks. A worthy opponent, at least. But just a week in, and we are hearing about compromise. Sanders, to his credit, is willing to stand up to Trump, but he has never mustered the courage to stand up to Trump\u2019s co-conspirators in the Democratic Party. Sanders now…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Image by Nathaniel St. Clair The revolution\u2019s hereNo one can lead you off your pathYou\u2019ll try to change the worldSo please excuse me while I laughYo, I heard it\u2019s said the revolution won\u2019t be televisedBut in the land of milk and honey there\u2019s a date you gotta sell it by \u2014 Talib Kweli, Beautiful Struggle […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-385388","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=385388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385388\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=385388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=385388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=385388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}