{"id":6241,"date":"2020-04-08T13:27:31","date_gmt":"2020-04-08T18:27:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/?p=6241"},"modified":"2020-04-08T13:31:59","modified_gmt":"2020-04-08T18:31:59","slug":"bernie-suspends-his-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/?p=6241","title":{"rendered":"Bernie Suspends His Campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I expected it &#8212; there hasn&#8217;t been much campaigning in the past month anyway, and his campaign communications have been requests for charitable donations for the past few weeks &#8212; but still a little shocked to hear Bernie suspend his campaign. Listening to his announcement today was a rare occasion where I don&#8217;t get what he&#8217;s saying &#8212; yeah, this movement is an attempt to stand up to massive corporate interests and a corrupt political system. From the perspective of someone who cannot even speak ill of their government without fear of imprisonment, I guess that&#8217;s something to celebrate. But that&#8217;s not <em>my<\/em> perspective. America has a long history of letting people voice dissent; unfortunately America is also amassing a long history of ignoring majority dissent. We stood up against crony capitalism and crony democracy, but we didn&#8217;t win. <span data-offset-key=\"7vr6j-0-0\">Not like Bernie could say it sucks; but, as a voter who really believed that Bernie&#8217;s economic, social, and environmental policies are needed &#8230; it sucks. <\/span><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m glad Bernie will continue to amass delegates as a tactical maneuver. While my totally impractical self thinks *maybe* people will see how tying health care to employment, how allowing corporations to deny people paid sick leave, how having a minimum wage that means you&#8217;re working two jobs to pay rent and feed your family isn&#8217;t the right direction so Bernie manages to win 99% of the remaining delegates (or Biden being the nominee makes Republicans think it&#8217;s open season on Biden investigations &amp; Biden&#8217;s campaign becomes non-viable by mid-summer), I want to see what planks Bernie manages to insert into Biden&#8217;s platform. And how Biden manages to *not* look disingenuous adopting those planks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I expected it &#8212; there hasn&#8217;t been much campaigning in the past month anyway, and his campaign communications have been requests for charitable donations for the past few weeks &#8212; but still a little shocked to hear Bernie suspend his campaign. Listening to his announcement today was a rare occasion where I don&#8217;t get what &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":[924,923],"class_list":["post-6241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-2020-democratic-primary","tag-democratic-primary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6241","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=6241"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6241\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6245,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6241\/revisions\/6245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}