{"id":266527,"date":"2021-08-06T20:00:37","date_gmt":"2021-08-06T20:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nader.org\/?p=5413"},"modified":"2021-08-06T20:00:37","modified_gmt":"2021-08-06T20:00:37","slug":"fallacies-of-political-labelism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/08\/06\/fallacies-of-political-labelism\/","title":{"rendered":"Fallacies of Political Labelism"},"content":{"rendered":"By Ralph Nader August 6, 2021 Alexander Burns is a leading political affairs analyst for the New York Times.\u00a0 Unfortunately, even he has accepted the ill-defined political labelism swallowed wholesale by his journalistic colleagues. Words to describe Democratic politicians as \u201cmoderate,\u201d \u201ccentrist,\u201d \u201ccenter-left,\u201d \u201ccenter-right,\u201d \u201cleftist,\u201d or House Democratic Caucus Chair, Hakeem Jeffries recent denunciatory nomenclature&#8230;\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/nader.org\/2021\/08\/06\/fallacies-of-political-labelism\/\">Ralph Nader<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Ralph Nader August 6, 2021 Alexander Burns is a leading political affairs analyst for the New York Times.\u00a0 Unfortunately, even he has accepted the ill-defined political labelism swallowed wholesale by his journalistic colleagues. Words to describe D&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":145,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266527"}],"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\/145"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=266527"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266527\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":266578,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266527\/revisions\/266578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=266527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=266527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=266527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}