{"id":6329,"date":"2016-06-24T11:47:27","date_gmt":"2016-06-24T11:47:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2016\/06\/24\/you-say-you-want-money-out-of-politics\/"},"modified":"2016-06-24T11:47:27","modified_gmt":"2016-06-24T11:47:27","slug":"you-say-you-want-money-out-of-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2016\/06\/24\/you-say-you-want-money-out-of-politics\/","title":{"rendered":"You Say You Want Money Out of Politics?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino;\">You say you want money out of politics?<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino;\">But of course you understand that running political campaigns costs money. &#0160;What you object to is the buying of influence. &#0160;What you object to are candidates who will do the bidding of their deep-pocketed donors, whether corporate or individual. &#0160;Now along comes Donald Trump who funds himself and is beholden to no one. &#0160;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino;\">Has he not gotten the money out of politics? &#0160;He has, in the only sense of this phrase that means anything.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino;\">Why then are you bitching? I assume &#0160;you are not a benighted lefty in the tank for Hillary. &#0160;Why won&#39;t you support the presumptive nominee of the Republican Party, the people&#39;s choice, the only one who can beat Mrs. Clinton?<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino;\">You say your conscience won&#39;t allow a vote for a man with his many deep flaws? &#0160;But your conscience <em>will allow<\/em> four to eight more years of leftist infiltration of the government, including the loss of the Supreme Court for the rest of our lives?<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino;\">Are you NeverTrumpers even <em>trying<\/em> to think clearly?<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You say you want money out of politics? But of course you understand that running political campaigns costs money. &#0160;What you object to is the buying of influence. &#0160;What you object to are candidates who will do the bidding of their deep-pocketed donors, whether corporate or individual. &#0160;Now along comes Donald Trump who funds himself &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2016\/06\/24\/you-say-you-want-money-out-of-politics\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;You Say You Want Money Out of Politics?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[216,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-money-matters","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6329"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6329\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}