{"id":12600,"date":"2019-06-04T11:46:21","date_gmt":"2019-06-04T15:46:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/?p=12600"},"modified":"2019-06-04T11:46:26","modified_gmt":"2019-06-04T15:46:26","slug":"from-occupy-to-aoc-the-rise-of-the-new-progressives-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/from-occupy-to-aoc-the-rise-of-the-new-progressives-part-1\/","title":{"rendered":"From Occupy To AOC: The Rise Of The New Progressives, Part 1"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"380\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Screenshot_2019-06-04-From-Occupy-To-AOC-The-Rise-Of-The-New-Progressives-Part-1-1024x380.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12601\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Screenshot_2019-06-04-From-Occupy-To-AOC-The-Rise-Of-The-New-Progressives-Part-1-1024x380.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Screenshot_2019-06-04-From-Occupy-To-AOC-The-Rise-Of-The-New-Progressives-Part-1-300x111.png 300w, https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Screenshot_2019-06-04-From-Occupy-To-AOC-The-Rise-Of-The-New-Progressives-Part-1-768x285.png 768w, https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Screenshot_2019-06-04-From-Occupy-To-AOC-The-Rise-Of-The-New-Progressives-Part-1.png 1485w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><em><strong>In fall 2011, Occupy Wall Street captured the nation&#8217;s imagination and  launched a platform that would come to define the New Progressives. <\/strong><\/em><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>The FEDERALIST<\/strong>, by <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/author\/dmarcus\/\">David Marcus<\/a> &#8212; June 3, 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Excerpt:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>This is part one of a three-part series.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><em><strong>The Occupation Will Be Televised<\/strong><\/em><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Over the past decade, a new and virulently illiberal progressive  movement has taken shape in the United States. Centered around identity  politics, control and censorship of speech, and proposed government  takeovers of much of the economy, today\u2019s New Progressive now sounds and  looks almost identical to the radical fringe elements of leftism as  recently as the late 1990s. Although the actual number of these New  Progressives may be small, the movement has broad and approving reach in  the media, and has become a disproportionally large part of the  national political debate.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>For conservatives it is essential to understand the origins and  nature of this new progressivism. Although the cultural, economic, and  political ideas that undergird this movement can be traced back to at  the least the late 1960s and the emergence of European postmodern  philosophy, in the American context, the most useful starting point for  understanding what is happening today is Occupy Wall Street (OWS).<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Occupy brought together three ideas for the first time that were  formerly on the fringe. First is the idea that group identity bestows  differing rights and obligations on individuals, rather than individuals  all having equal rights and obligations. Second, OWS created the  concept of a battle between the 99 percent and the 1 percent, which  replaced a more nuanced approach on the left to how wealth is  distributed. Finally, it offered a deep distrust of and desire to  silence corporate entities that OWS claimed are not persons and  therefore essentially have no rights.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>View the complete article at:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2019\/06\/03\/from-occupy-to-aoc-the-rise-of-the-new-progressives-part-1\/\">https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2019\/06\/03\/from-occupy-to-aoc-the-rise-of-the-new-progressives-part-1\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In fall 2011, Occupy Wall Street captured the nation&#8217;s imagination and launched a platform that would come to define the New Progressives. The FEDERALIST, by David Marcus &#8212; June 3, 2019 Excerpt: This is part one of a three-part series. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/from-occupy-to-aoc-the-rise-of-the-new-progressives-part-1\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12600","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12600"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12600\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12602,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12600\/revisions\/12602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}