{"id":237442,"date":"2010-01-27T14:46:17","date_gmt":"2010-01-27T19:46:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.reuters.com\/james-pethokoukis\/?p=3286"},"modified":"2010-01-27T14:46:17","modified_gmt":"2010-01-27T19:46:17","slug":"the-obama-base","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/237442","title":{"rendered":"The Obama base"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As explained by <a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/Newgeography\/~3\/nLdkBzh6_XU\/001370-the-death-of-gentry-liberalism\">Joel Kotkin<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>Gentry liberalism combines four basic elements: faith in postindustrial &#8220;creative&#8221; financial capitalism, cultural liberalism, Gore-ite environmentalism and the backing of the nation&#8217;s arguably best-organized political force, public employee unions. Obama rose to power on the back of all these forces and, until now, has governed as their tribune.<\/p>\n<p>Obama&#8217;s problems stem primarily from gentry liberalism&#8217;s class contradictions. Focused on ultra-affluent greens, the media, Wall Street and the public sector, gentry liberalism generally gives short shrift to upward mobility, the basic aspiration of the middle class.<\/p>\n<p>Now that the ball is in his court, the president and his party must abandon their gentry-liberal game plan. The emphasis on bailing out Wall Street and public employees, supporting social welfare and manufacturing &#8220;green&#8221; jobs appealed to the core gentry coalition but left many voters, including lifelong Democrats, wondering what was in it for them and their families.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As explained by Joel Kotkin: Gentry liberalism combines four basic elements: faith in postindustrial &#8220;creative&#8221; financial capitalism, cultural liberalism, Gore-ite environmentalism and the backing of the nation&#8217;s arguably best-organized political force, public employee unions. Obama rose to power on the back of all these forces and, until now, has governed as their tribune. Obama&#8217;s problems [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1063,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-237442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237442","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1063"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=237442"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237442\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}