{"id":4276,"date":"2008-11-11T10:44:41","date_gmt":"2008-11-11T17:44:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=4276"},"modified":"2008-11-11T10:44:41","modified_gmt":"2008-11-11T17:44:41","slug":"the-democrats-a-critical-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2008\/11\/11\/the-democrats-a-critical-history\/","title":{"rendered":"The Democrats: A Critical History"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" border=0 src=\"graphics\/listen.gif\"\/> <ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/download\/DailyDigest_11_11_08\/2008_11_11_selfa.mp3\">Listen to  this segment <\/a><\/li><\/ul>| <a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/download\/DailyDigest_11_11_08\/2008_11_11_uprising.MP3\">  the entire program<\/a> <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=right width=45% src=\"http:\/\/champaigncountydemocrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/dem-logo.gif\" alt=\"democrats a critical history\" \/>The latest unofficial tally in the still too close to call Minnesota Senate race has Republican incumbent Norm Coleman ahead by only 206 votes over his opponent Al Franken. The Secretary of State of Minnesota has projected a hand recount of the ballots to be completed by mid-December. Should Franken ultimately prevail in the race, his seat would increase an already commanding lead for the Democratic Party in the Senate. President-elect Barack Obama, who emerged victorious just one week ago today, will also be inaugurated with a sizable majority for his party in the House of Representatives as well. With such favorable political circumstances will the Democrats bring change many have hoped for? In the newly released book, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The Democrats: A Critical History,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d author Lance Selfa cautions Americans to be more skeptical. Describing the party institution as essentially capitalist, Selfa retraces how the Democrats have acted in decisive moments in history in favor of big business interests both at home and abroad. As some progressives understand Obama to be a moderate centrist and accordingly call for broad social movements, the book also importantly evaluates past dynamics between Democrats administrations and grassroots activism.  <\/p>\n<p><em>GUEST: Lance Selfa, author of &#8220;The Democrats: A Critical History,&#8221; writer for the Socialist Worker and International Socialist Review<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>| the entire program The latest unofficial tally in the still too close to call Minnesota Senate race has Republican incumbent Norm Coleman ahead by only 206 votes over his opponent Al Franken. The Secretary of State of Minnesota has projected a hand recount of the ballots to be completed by mid-December. Should Franken ultimately [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-program"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4276\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}