{"id":34823,"date":"2019-09-08T02:55:08","date_gmt":"2019-09-08T02:55:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/?p=34823"},"modified":"2019-09-08T02:55:08","modified_gmt":"2019-09-08T02:55:08","slug":"socialism-used-to-be-a-dirty-word-is-america-now-ready-to-embrace-the-ideology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/?p=34823","title":{"rendered":"Socialism used to be a dirty word. Is America now ready to embrace the ideology?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Voters&rsquo; feelings on socialism have changed with half of those under 40 saying they would prefer to live in a socialist country<\/p>\n<p>In his 1998 movie, Bulworth, Warren Beatty played a Democratic senator who travels rogue, embarking on a truth-telling binge in which he gushes revolutionary truths no Democrat serious about election would ever utter. At one stage, Bulworth even mentions socialism.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;In America that&rsquo;s like saying cocksucker, &rdquo; Beatty formerly told me with a chuckle over dinner at his home in Los Angeles shortly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/film\/1999\/jan\/23\/features2\">before the movie<\/a> came out in Britain a year later. &ldquo;We have this so-called thriving economy which has missed most people and while the disparity between rich and poor grows we have just one party- the money party, made up of Republicans and Democrats.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2019\/sep\/06\/socialism-used-to-be-a-dirty-word-is-america-now-ready-to-embrace-the-ideology\">Continue reading &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\"><\/div>\n<p>Read more: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2019\/sep\/06\/socialism-used-to-be-a-dirty-word-is-america-now-ready-to-embrace-the-ideology\">theguardian.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Voters&rsquo; feelings on socialism have changed with half of those under 40 saying they would prefer to live in a socialist country In his 1998 movie, Bulworth, Warren Beatty played a Democratic senator who travels rogue, embarking on a truth-telling binge in which he gushes revolutionary truths no Democrat serious about election would ever utter. &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":34824,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[18051,7827,2624,15616,15610],"class_list":["post-34823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-uncategorized","tag-bernie-sanders","tag-chicago","tag-democrats","tag-us-news","tag-world-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/30001567911308.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34823"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34823\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/34824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}