{"id":1262,"date":"2004-02-17T17:33:31","date_gmt":"2004-02-18T00:33:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/?p=1262"},"modified":"2004-02-17T17:33:31","modified_gmt":"2004-02-18T00:33:31","slug":"the-natural-law-party-has-found-its-candidate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2004\/02\/17\/the-natural-law-party-has-found-its-candidate\/","title":{"rendered":"The Natural Law Party has found Its Candidate!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name=\"001914\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tm.org\/\">Transcendental Meditation<\/a> acts as the central core of the Natural Law Party.  The &#8220;Visualize Success&#8221; so that you can succeed at your action mantra, only on a mass societal scale.<\/p>\n<p>In the current cycle, the 2000, 1996 (and probably beyond) presidental candidate for the Natural Law Party has endorsed Democratic candidate Dennis Kucinich.  It&#8217;s a match that makes some sense.  And news reports are that Kucinich supporters have, at times, engaged in &#8220;Collective Visualization&#8221;, which sounds like a watered-down version of transcendental meditation.<\/p>\n<p>Sounds hooky?  Easy to mock and make fun of?<\/p>\n<p>Not so fast!  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/articles\/A46368-2004Feb16.html\">Apparently George Bush has stolen from the Natural Law Party platform<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><i>The artificial windows revealed an inviting blue sky. Bush portrayed a similarly sunny outlook with remarks that used &#8220;optimistic&#8221; or &#8220;optimism&#8221; seven times in 49 minutes. He repeatedly stressed the power of positive thinking as an engine of job creation. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A lot of economic growth depends upon the psychology of the people making decisions all throughout our economy,&#8221; he said. &#8220;So far, the entrepreneurs have been upbeat.&#8221; <\/i><\/p>\n<p>(news article courtesy of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.talkingpointsmemo.com\/archives\/week_2004_02_15.html#002567\">TPM<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Transcendental Meditation acts as the central core of the Natural Law Party. The &#8220;Visualize Success&#8221; so that you can succeed at your action mantra, only on a mass societal scale. In the current cycle, the 2000, 1996 (and probably beyond) presidental candidate for the Natural Law Party has endorsed Democratic candidate Dennis Kucinich. It&#8217;s a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3rd-parties"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1262\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}