{"id":5057,"date":"2016-06-07T09:47:58","date_gmt":"2016-06-07T13:47:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/?p=5057"},"modified":"2016-06-07T09:51:04","modified_gmt":"2016-06-07T13:51:04","slug":"dems-drive-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/?p=5057","title":{"rendered":"DEMS DRIVE US TOWARD TRUMP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Democratic party establishment is a blinkered, sclerotic, bought-and-paid-for excuse for a political leadership, without any demonstrated commitment to solving the catastrophic problems now besetting the U.S.&#8211;but with a real gift for gab about how much it cares.<\/p>\n<p>It sold its soul and traded away its identity with its abandonment of the country&#8217;s working class under Bill Clinton. Don&#8217;t forget it just told Sanders it didn&#8217;t want a representative of organized labor working on drafting its convention platform, insisting on vetoing his selection of National Nurses United head Rose DeMoro.<\/p>\n<p>Party leadership doesn&#8217;t know how to win elections. It doesn&#8217;t know how to govern. It cannot get any traction against GOP extremism. Where, Mr. President, are the confirmation hearings for your nominee?<\/p>\n<p>Almost every decision the Dem leadership has made during this election cycle has been a misstep, and Hillary Clinton has run a terrible campaign. Instead of welcoming into the fold the huge influx of young voters attracted by Sanders, she insults them.<\/p>\n<p>Equally distressing is the liberal commentariat establishment&#8217;s unchecked zeal to push us toward the precipice of a Trump presidency via it&#8217;s smug, dripping-with-condescension treatment of Sanders.<\/p>\n<p>I will vote for Clinton if she gets the nomination, but if I were a Sanders diehard reading this stuff, I would barricade myself at home election day.<\/p>\n<p>Hillary is a weak and compromised candidate, a direct expression of the current Dem Party malaise and dysfunction. It will take every imaginable vote to elect her.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democratic party establishment is a blinkered, sclerotic, bought-and-paid-for excuse for a political leadership, without any demonstrated commitment to solving the catastrophic problems now besetting the U.S.&#8211;but with a real gift for gab about how much it cares. It sold its &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/?p=5057\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5057","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5057"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5057\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5060,"href":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5057\/revisions\/5060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}