{"id":1214790,"date":"2023-09-15T05:44:32","date_gmt":"2023-09-15T05:44:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/?p=294088"},"modified":"2023-09-15T05:44:32","modified_gmt":"2023-09-15T05:44:32","slug":"why-did-the-parties-switch-as-conservative-and-liberal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2023\/09\/15\/why-did-the-parties-switch-as-conservative-and-liberal\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Did the Parties Switch as Conservative and Liberal?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Democratic and Republican parties have\u00a0flipped their basic philosophies since being founded. Currently, we strongly associate each with being conservative or liberal. We often assume that conservatives are Republicans and Democrats are liberals. But it was the opposite for approximately the first 80 years of our nation\u2019s founding. Each party\u2019s orientation was and still is  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2023\/09\/15\/why-did-the-parties-switch-as-conservative-and-liberal\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2023\/09\/15\/why-did-the-parties-switch-as-conservative-and-liberal\/\">Why Did the Parties Switch as Conservative and Liberal?<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Democratic and Republican parties have\u00a0flipped their basic philosophies since being founded. Currently, we strongly associate each with being conservative or liberal. We often assume that conservatives are Republicans and Democrats are liberals. Bu&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":258,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1214790"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/258"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1214790"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1214790\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1214863,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1214790\/revisions\/1214863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1214790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1214790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1214790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}