{"id":9401,"date":"2010-02-19T17:35:27","date_gmt":"2010-02-19T17:35:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/a-loyal-opposition-for-smaller-government\/"},"modified":"2010-02-19T17:35:27","modified_gmt":"2010-02-19T17:35:27","slug":"a-loyal-opposition-for-smaller-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/libertarian\/a-loyal-opposition-for-smaller-government.php","title":{"rendered":"A Loyal Opposition for Smaller Government"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>By Chris Spangle, Executive Director of the Libertarian Party of Indiana<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Ed Coleman left the Republican party (because it left him) a year ago yesterday.&nbsp; Coleman is  at-large, and represents a million people. The conventional wisdom is that Libertarians serving in government are such a minority, that achieving anything is meaningless. Local Republican blogger Paul Ogden notes some of the issues that Libertarians have stood against. <\/p>\n<p>This  bird's eye view from a member of another party shows the effectiveness  that we as a third party can have at raising issues in a high-profile,  evenly divided political climate. It only takes one Libertarian to gum  up the works of \"bipartisanship.\"<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ogdenonpolitics.com\/2010\/02\/ed-colemans-one-year-libertarian-party.html\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.ogdenonpolitics.com\/2010\/02\/ed-colemans-one-year-libertarian-party.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lpin.org\/node\/857\" target=\"_blank\">read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Chris Spangle, Executive Director of the Libertarian Party of Indiana Ed Coleman left the Republican party (because it left him) a year ago yesterday.&nbsp; Coleman is at-large, and represents a million people. The conventional wisdom is that Libertarians serving &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/libertarian\/a-loyal-opposition-for-smaller-government.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-libertarian"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9401"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9401\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}