{"id":21029,"date":"2023-04-20T17:37:45","date_gmt":"2023-04-20T21:37:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/?p=21029"},"modified":"2023-04-20T17:37:45","modified_gmt":"2023-04-20T21:37:45","slug":"its-time-to-abandon-your-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2023\/04\/its-time-to-abandon-your-team\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s time to abandon your team"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Most people in the US think they have to vote for the Democratic Party or the Republican Party, although Ross Perot won 19% of the vote in 1992. Ones who are logical and are paying attention to what&#8217;s going on have certainly abandoned the Republicans, but there are many Americans who know less about what&#8217;s going on than I do.<\/p>\n<p>Rather than supporting the party who has the best plans that will improve your life, many people are supporting a party like they support a certain sports team &#8212; it&#8217;s their party and they&#8217;re going to keep supporting it.<\/p>\n<p>Republican lawmakers and judges have become so extreme, and so anti-democratic, that every person with a platform must denounce them.<\/p>\n<p>The US is a huge influential country right on our border. Republicans are doing shockingly terrible things everywhere they have power &#8212; they must be stopped.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s Robert Reich&#8217;s succinct views on this topic:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=jp2D-PMW47c\">Is the Republican Party Becoming the American Fascist Party?<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most people in the US think they have to vote for the Democratic Party or the Republican Party, although Ross Perot won 19% of the vote in 1992. Ones who are logical and are paying attention to what&#8217;s going on have certainly abandoned the Republicans, but there are many Americans who know less about what&#8217;s [&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":[12,22],"tags":[32],"class_list":["post-21029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-from-the-web","category-my-thoughts","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21029","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=21029"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21029\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21031,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21029\/revisions\/21031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}