{"id":92224,"date":"2015-04-13T00:08:15","date_gmt":"2015-04-13T07:08:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/?p=92224"},"modified":"2015-04-13T06:26:53","modified_gmt":"2015-04-13T13:26:53","slug":"the-gop-on-the-cutting-edge-of-the-late-19th-century","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/2015\/04\/the-gop-on-the-cutting-edge-of-the-late-19th-century.html","title":{"rendered":"The GOP: On the Cutting Edge of the Late 19th Century"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

In a week when a cop\u2019s lie about cold-blooded murder has been exposed by the courage of a citizen who filmed the whole thing, yet another GOP pol has proposed yet another bit of insanity in the form of a law forbidding citizens from filming cops.<\/a>\u00a0 It demonstrates, yet again, that the GOP is not the \u201cparty of small government\u201d. \u00a0It\u2019s the Party of Large Government Armed to Despoil, Attack and Kill Small People. \u00a0It never saw a massively expensive gun or bomb in the hands of a Uniformed Authority Figure it didn\u2019t love. \u00a0It\u2019s only minor pleasures enjoyed by the poor it is scrupulous about.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In a week when a cop\u2019s lie about cold-blooded murder has been exposed by the courage of a citizen who filmed the whole thing, yet another GOP pol has proposed yet another bit of insanity in the form of a law forbidding citizens from filming cops.\u00a0 It demonstrates, yet again, that the GOP is not […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":92,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[26,60],"class_list":["post-92224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-our-ruling-class-vs-the-rest-of-us","tag-the-growing-police-state"],"yoast_head":"\nThe GOP: On the Cutting Edge of the Late 19th Century<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"In a week when a cop's lie about cold-blooded murder has been exposed by the courage of a citizen who filmed the whole thing, yet another GOP pol has\" \/>\n<meta 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