{"id":1793,"date":"2010-03-07T01:03:12","date_gmt":"2010-03-07T06:03:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/?p=1793"},"modified":"2010-07-18T18:59:37","modified_gmt":"2010-07-18T23:59:37","slug":"sink-the-bismarckian-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/?p=1793","title":{"rendered":"Sink, the Bismarckian state!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hmm: On 24th February I wrote, in a <a href=\"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/?p=1752&#038;cpage=1#comment-249467\">comment<\/a> on this blog:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nWe\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re about to reach the end of the historical era that began when Bismarck first implemented state socialism in the 1880s. The changes will be huge and wrenching; I wouldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t even put the dissolution of the USA outside the realm of possibility.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Two days later, Mark Steyn writes this in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2010\/feb\/26\/our-own-greek-tragedy\/\/print\/\">Our own Greek tragedy:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nThe 20th century Bismarckian welfare state has run out of people to stick it to.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Coincidence or conspiracy?  <em>You<\/em> be the judge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hmm: On 24th February I wrote, in a comment on this blog: We\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re about to reach the end of the historical era that began when Bismarck first implemented state socialism in the 1880s. The changes will be huge and wrenching; I wouldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t even put the dissolution of the USA outside the realm of possibility. Two&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/?p=1793\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Sink, the Bismarckian state!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1793"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1793\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2209,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1793\/revisions\/2209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}