{"id":13022,"date":"2015-03-10T12:00:43","date_gmt":"2015-03-10T20:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/?p=13022"},"modified":"2015-03-02T13:54:38","modified_gmt":"2015-03-02T21:54:38","slug":"febmarch-zephyr-the-new-westprogressive-paradox-can-liberalgreens-still-possess-an-honest-social-conscience-in-new-moab-utahby-jim-stiles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/2015\/03\/10\/febmarch-zephyr-the-new-westprogressive-paradox-can-liberalgreens-still-possess-an-honest-social-conscience-in-new-moab-utahby-jim-stiles\/","title":{"rendered":"(Feb\/March Zephyr) THE \u2018NEW WEST\/PROGRESSIVE\u2019 PARADOX: Can \u2018Liberal\/Greens\u2019 Still Possess an Honest Social Conscience in New Moab, Utah?\u2019\u2026By Jim Stiles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>An excerpt:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It would be challenging to find anyone worth their \u201cprogressive\u201d stripes who could muster a bad word for FDR.\u00a0 But do his values still ring true across the broad spectrum of the Democratic Party? Within its ranks, opinions vary. Of course, there are mild dissenters\u2014the \u2018Blue Dog Democrats\u2019\u2014who embrace a more conservative view on fiscal and social issues<\/p>\n<p>But could there be a new faction within the Democratic Party ranks, especially among those \u2018progressive\/<wbr \/>environmentalists\u2019 who live in and recreate upon the ever-expanding demographic phenomenon called \u2018The New West?\u2019 How would FDR\u2019s values hold up in the likes of Jackson, Wyoming, or Aspen, Colorado, or Sedona, Arizona? Or perhaps even the latest full-blown entry as a New West town\u2026Moab, Utah in 2015?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>To read more of Jim&#8217;s article, click the image below:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/2015\/02\/02\/the-new-westprogressive-paradox-can-liberalgreens-still-possess-an-honest-social-conscience-in-new-moab-utah-by-jim-stiles\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-13023\" src=\"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/fwebuildthem2.jpg\" alt=\"fwebuildthem2\" width=\"552\" height=\"402\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/fwebuildthem2.jpg 650w, http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/fwebuildthem2-300x218.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 552px) 100vw, 552px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/2015\/02\/02\/the-new-westprogressive-paradox-can-liberalgreens-still-possess-an-honest-social-conscience-in-new-moab-utah-by-jim-stiles\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/2015\/02\/02\/the-new-westprogressive-paradox-can-liberalgreens-still-possess-an-honest-social-conscience-in-new-moab-utah-by-jim-stiles\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An excerpt: It would be challenging to find anyone worth their \u201cprogressive\u201d stripes who could muster a bad word for FDR.\u00a0 But do his values still ring true across the broad spectrum of the Democratic Party? Within its ranks, opinions vary. Of course, there are mild dissenters\u2014the \u2018Blue Dog Democrats\u2019\u2014who embrace a more conservative view [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13022","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13022"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13022\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13024,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13022\/revisions\/13024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}