{"id":12366,"date":"2009-09-07T20:38:43","date_gmt":"2009-09-08T00:38:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/vardibidian\/2009\/09\/07\/12366.html"},"modified":"2018-03-13T18:52:46","modified_gmt":"2018-03-13T23:52:46","slug":"laboring-under","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/2009\/09\/07\/laboring-under\/","title":{"rendered":"Laboring under"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A few weeks back, Mark Schmitt wrote about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.prospect.org\/cs\/articles?article=left_without_labor\">Left Without Labor<\/a>, saying that while it was difficult to conceive of a progressive movement without organized labor at its core, that did seem to be what was happening. And in many ways, he says, it&#8217;s good that the coalition of professionals, young people, women and minorities can win without the working class. That makes the Republican strategy of splitting off the working-class whites, playing on resentments of lost privilege, less effective. Still, as he points out, while Joe the Plumber was a fake, it&#8217;s a problem if our Party is not the party of &#8220;the real Joes, Jos\u00e9s, and Josephines of the working middle class&#8221;.\n<p>I agree with him on that last part. I believe in organized labor. The folks that brought you the weekend, you know. And that brought you, oh, workplace safety standards and overtime pay and so on.\n<p>So as easy as it is to get <a href=\"http:\/\/tpmtv.talkingpointsmemo.com\/?id=3371192\">fired up<\/a> by Barack Obama, when he works a crowd, for Labor Day this year I&#8217;m just going to send you over to <a href=\"http:\/\/yourbreak.wordpress.com\/2009\/09\/07\/attracts-me-like-no-other-lover\/\">the Blog of Frequent Name Changes<\/a>, where a Gentle Reader has gathered some good foot-to-behind stuff.\n<P>I think the lesson of Labor Day this year is that you gave to get out and work for it. Right?\n<p><I>Tolerabimus quod tolerare debemus<\/I>,<br>-Vardibidian.\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Which Your Humble Blogger is weary, lord, I do get weary, wearing this same old shabby dress.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[204],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12366","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12366"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12366\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18869,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12366\/revisions\/18869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}