{"id":439,"date":"2011-09-28T03:45:55","date_gmt":"2011-09-28T07:45:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/?p=439"},"modified":"2011-09-28T03:45:55","modified_gmt":"2011-09-28T07:45:55","slug":"stupid-voters-enable-broken-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/2011\/09\/stupid-voters-enable-broken-government\/","title":{"rendered":"Stupid voters enable broken government"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We have to move away from easy-to-repeat campaign slogans and promises of easy solutions, because we&#8217;re a country with more than 300 million people, a complicated racial and religious history and the world&#8217;s largest GDP. There are no easy solutions.<\/p>\n<p>So if you&#8217;re the kind of person who likes to say &#8220;I don&#8217;t follow politics,&#8221; let me remind you that no one lives in a vacuum and that sentiment epitomizes what is wrong with our government. I don&#8217;t blame Sarah Palin for thinking she can still toss her hat in the ring. I blame us voters for creating an environment in which a Palin or a Gingrich or even a reality TV star like Donald Trump can feel as if they can run and even be taken seriously.<\/p>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2011\/09\/27\/opinion\/granderson-broken-government-voters\/index.html?eref=rss_politics&amp;utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+rss%2Fcnn_allpolitics+%28RSS%3A+Politics%29\">Stupid voters enable broken government &#8211; CNN.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr\/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We have to move away from easy-to-repeat campaign slogans and promises of easy solutions, because we&#8217;re a country with more than 300 million people, a complicated racial and religious history and the world&#8217;s largest GDP. There are no easy solutions. So if you&#8217;re the kind of person who likes to say &#8220;I don&#8217;t follow politics,&#8221;&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,17,22],"tags":[90,183,247],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=439"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":440,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439\/revisions\/440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}