{"id":131208,"date":"2016-08-05T00:41:36","date_gmt":"2016-08-05T00:41:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/08\/05\/ralph-waldo-emerson-on-bernie-sanders-supporters.html"},"modified":"2016-08-05T00:41:36","modified_gmt":"2016-08-05T00:41:36","slug":"ralph-waldo-emerson-on-bernie-sanders-supporters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/08\/05\/ralph-waldo-emerson-on-bernie-sanders-supporters.html","title":{"rendered":"Ralph Waldo Emerson on Bernie Sanders supporters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Whether or not he won the nomination, Sanders certainly moved the Overton Window of government policy discussion back to the left, raising issues &#8212; and garnering enthusiastic support for them &#8212; that will reverberate through American politics (especially in the Democratic Party) for at least a generation.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"sm2wpreshared\">Originally shared by <a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930'>+Quotations &#8211; WIST &#8211; Wish I&#8217;d Said That<\/a>:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>What the tender and poetic youth dreams to-day, and conjures up with inarticulate speech, is to-morrow the vociferated result of public opinion, and the day after is the character of nations.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; <b>Ralph Waldo Emerson<\/b> (1803-1882) American essayist, lecturer, poet<br \/>(Attributed)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p>\n<a style='display:inline;' href='http:\/\/wist.info\/emerson-ralph-waldo\/34681\/'><br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/lPAc9gyHbdQihn_zfwJsdSsv4DysulOctvANsxnTzYovrmK97wV38SSkkPeUvLCttJtllp02ALFIPOf_1SJp54csT_IxilNKSNxfTyd0CJw-7D_PIiTETC7Oq7UU61uAMzapi3dHwWd4sWPuPaBo=w506-h910' border='0' style='max-width:650px;'\/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style='font-size:large;'><a href='http:\/\/wist.info\/emerson-ralph-waldo\/34681\/'>Emerson, Ralph Waldo &#8211; (Attributed) | WIST<\/a><\/span><br \/>\nWhat the tender and poetic youth dreams to-day, and conjures up with inarticulate speech, is to-morrow the vociferated result of public opinion, and the da\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/A5Mc4YfV5Af'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whether or not he won the nomination, Sanders certainly moved the Overton Window of government policy discussion back to the left, raising issues &#8212; and garnering enthusiastic support for them &#8212; that will reverberate through American politics (especially in the Democratic Party) for at least a generation. 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