{"id":6099,"date":"2020-03-13T18:39:16","date_gmt":"2020-03-13T23:39:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/?p=6099"},"modified":"2020-03-13T14:45:40","modified_gmt":"2020-03-13T19:45:40","slug":"6099","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/?p=6099","title":{"rendered":"Republicanism"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-contents=\"true\">\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"vo22\" data-offset-key=\"91grr-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"91grr-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"91grr-0-0\">&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/03\/12\/us\/politics\/trumps-coronavirus-unity.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">School superintendents, sports commissioners, college presidents, governors and business owners have taken it upon themselves to shut down much of American life without clear guidance from the president.<\/a>&#8220;<\/span><\/div>\n<div data-offset-key=\"91grr-0-0\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"91grr-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"91grr-0-0\">Reading this, I cannot help but think the response to this pandemic is playing out according to a fundamental tenant of Republican philosophy. <\/span><span data-offset-key=\"91grr-0-0\">Push power down closer to &#8216;the people&#8217;. Each school district, city\/township, county, and state gets to decide how to respond to this virus. In other words, it&#8217;s a feature not a bug. <\/span><\/div>\n<div data-offset-key=\"91grr-0-0\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"91grr-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"91grr-0-0\">Personally, I think it&#8217;s important to have a strong federal government to coordinate things that impact everyone &#8212; environmental regulations, educational concerns, energy efficiency, public health. I hope people who push for decentralized government think about how chaotic our response is and extrapolate to how their preferred form of governance can react to <em>other<\/em> important situations, whatever those may be.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"vo22\" data-offset-key=\"8cog6-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"8cog6-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"8cog6-0-0\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;School superintendents, sports commissioners, college presidents, governors and business owners have taken it upon themselves to shut down much of American life without clear guidance from the president.&#8220; Reading this, I cannot help but think the response to this pandemic is playing out according to a fundamental tenant of Republican philosophy. Push power down closer &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[929,920,933,695,932,930],"class_list":["post-6099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-coronavirus","tag-covid-19","tag-federal-government","tag-government","tag-republicanism","tag-sars-cov-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6099","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6099"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6099\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6102,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6099\/revisions\/6102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}