{"id":1562,"date":"2020-02-09T10:28:48","date_gmt":"2020-02-09T15:28:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/redtinnoodles.com\/?p=1562"},"modified":"2020-02-09T10:28:48","modified_gmt":"2020-02-09T15:28:48","slug":"ideology-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redtinnoodles.com\/?p=1562","title":{"rendered":"Ideology Update"},"content":{"rendered":"

If the left and right here did switch places,<\/p>\n

right would see a lot more non-white faces.<\/div>\n
Left would have to hold those MAGA signs,<\/div>\n
right be pepper sprayed in protest lines.<\/div>\n
Left would say the cops have got our backs.<\/div>\n
Right would say they only arrest blacks.<\/div>\n
Left would say they’ll give up guns when dead,<\/div>\n
right urge they use smaller ones instead.<\/div>\n
What we need perhaps is a new middle,<\/div>\n
folks sick of the emperor’s gold fiddle,<\/div>\n
who back equal pay and education,<\/div>\n
health insurance and a kinder nation.<\/div>\n
As things are the two sides will keep bashing,<\/div>\n
a highway with no lines where cars keep crashing.<\/div>\n
A party based upon our common ground<\/div>\n
might quell the furor, keep the earth around.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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