{"id":10868,"date":"2017-06-26T21:53:14","date_gmt":"2017-06-27T01:53:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/?p=10868"},"modified":"2017-06-26T21:53:14","modified_gmt":"2017-06-27T01:53:14","slug":"the-problem-with-the-democratic-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2017\/06\/the-problem-with-the-democratic-party\/","title":{"rendered":"The problem with the Democratic Party"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The main difference between lawmakers in the Democratic Party and those in the Republican Party is that Democrats want to do good things for the country. They&#8217;re far far better than the Republicans, every one of whom should be out of a job and a pariah for the rest of their life. On the other hand, the Democrats aren&#8217;t perfect either. Ralph Nader, one of the smartest guys around, has some suggestions (or, to put it another way, complaints) for them. Hopefully they&#8217;ll listen.<\/p>\n<p>Jon Schwarz at <strong>The Intercept<\/strong> has interviewed Nader, and you can see it here:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2017\/06\/25\/ralph-nader-the-democrats-are-unable-to-defend-the-u-s-from-the-most-vicious-republican-party-in-history\/\">Ralph Nader: The Democrats are unable to defend the U.S. from the &#8220;most vicious&#8221; Republican Party in history<\/a><\/p>\n<p>His complaints include Democrats taking money from corporations (which he points out started in 1979), not learning how to deal with Reagan (who was a different kind of Republican), and campaigning by slogans rather than policy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The main difference between lawmakers in the Democratic Party and those in the Republican Party is that Democrats want to do good things for the country. They&#8217;re far far better than the Republicans, every one of whom should be out of a job and a pariah for the rest of their life. On the other [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[32],"class_list":["post-10868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-from-the-web","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10868","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10868"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10868\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10869,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10868\/revisions\/10869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}