{"id":9072,"date":"2016-09-13T21:08:57","date_gmt":"2016-09-14T01:08:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/?p=9072"},"modified":"2016-09-13T21:08:57","modified_gmt":"2016-09-14T01:08:57","slug":"the-problem-with-the-republican-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2016\/09\/the-problem-with-the-republican-party\/","title":{"rendered":"The problem with the Republican Party"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This post is about the Republican Party pre-Donald Trump &#8212; I&#8217;ll talk about him in a separate post.<\/p>\n<p>In the old days the Republicans and the Democrats worked together to get things done. But in the past 8 years that&#8217;s not what&#8217;s happened. And anyone who thinks this is the Democrats&#8217; fault, their brain is mush. In the past 8 years the Republicans&#8217; stated position was that they were there to stop President Obama and the Democrats from doing anything &#8212; even things the Republicans actually wanted to do.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a tremendous article about what the Republican Party has done for us lately:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ourfuture.org\/20140923\/the-cost-to-our-economy-from-republican-obstruction-and-sabotage\">The Cost To Our Economy From Republican Obstruction And Sabotage<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Republican Party is therefore no longer a serious political party &#8212; it is a joke. The fact that some people are still willing to vote Republican after this demonstrates that the Republican\/Fox News propaganda machine works very well.<\/p>\n<p>The number of people who should vote for the Republican Party is zero. The party should disintegrate. True conservatives should form a new party.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This post is about the Republican Party pre-Donald Trump &#8212; I&#8217;ll talk about him in a separate post. In the old days the Republicans and the Democrats worked together to get things done. But in the past 8 years that&#8217;s not what&#8217;s happened. And anyone who thinks this is the Democrats&#8217; fault, their brain is [&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":[22],"tags":[32],"class_list":["post-9072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-thoughts","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9072","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=9072"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9072\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9085,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9072\/revisions\/9085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}