{"id":69068,"date":"2016-11-22T09:00:31","date_gmt":"2016-11-22T14:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=69068"},"modified":"2016-11-21T18:19:49","modified_gmt":"2016-11-21T23:19:49","slug":"ignoring-2016-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=69068","title":{"rendered":"Ignoring the lessons of the 2016 elections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s difficult to avoid politics these days. It&#8217;s everywhere. What stupefies me, though, is how no one has learned any lessons from the last few months. The Left hasn&#8217;t learned that their behavior over the last few years contributed to the rise of Republicans. Their participation in Occupy Wall Street&#8217;s and Black Lives Matter&#8217;s  pointless theatrics ran off anyone who might have crossed the aisle to vote for their candidate (if their candidate hadn&#8217;t been the most corrupt person in America).<\/p>\n<p>Everyone who doesn&#8217;t bow down to their empty platitudes are racists and Nazis. Just yesterday, <a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/blogs\/blog-briefing-room\/news\/307043-howard-dean-stephen-bannon-a-nazi\">Howard Dean called <\/a>Steve Bannon a Nazi. The words have lost all meaning and just rolls off our backs now.<\/p>\n<p>My liberal &#8220;friends&#8221; on Facebook are trying to guilt me into apologizing for my vote for Trump because somehow my vote means that I&#8217;m a racist, misogynist lout. Despite the fact that I decided to never cast a vote for Hillary Clinton back in 1994.<\/p>\n<p>The Right is just as blind to the rise of Trump. They&#8217;re back to playing the Goldilocks game of &#8220;this porridge is too hot, this porridge is too cold&#8221; by poo-pooing every cabinet choice as &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=69064&#038;cpage=1#comment-2925512\">not conservative enough<\/a>&#8220;. Ted Cruz, although conservative enough, he wasn&#8217;t American enough, Marco Rubio was American enough, but he wasn&#8217;t conservative enough&#8230;blah, blah, blah. So after eliminating all of the candidates for superficial reasons, we get Trump.<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t get me wrong &#8211; I&#8217;m glad we got Trump, but only because getting Trump means we don&#8217;t get Hillary Clinton.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s difficult to avoid politics these days. It&#8217;s everywhere. What stupefies me, though, is how no &hellip; <a title=\"Ignoring the lessons of the 2016 elections\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=69068\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Ignoring the lessons of the 2016 elections<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69068","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=69068"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69068\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=69068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=69068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=69068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}