{"id":14830,"date":"2015-08-14T16:18:25","date_gmt":"2015-08-14T23:18:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/?p=14830"},"modified":"2015-08-14T16:18:25","modified_gmt":"2015-08-14T23:18:25","slug":"protesting-bernie-sanders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2015\/08\/14\/protesting-bernie-sanders\/","title":{"rendered":"protesting Bernie Sanders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was curious about the Bernie Sanders appearance in Portland to know&#8230; just who would be out protesting him.\u00c2\u00a0 Understand we have forums out there from leftists of the Green \/ no vote \/ begruding Democrat but ugh ugh ugh variety who are holding forums around &#8220;Should the Left support Bernie Sanders?&#8221; &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230; the awareness that in the end he will be tossing his support to the Hillary Clinton candidate&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Coming out of Seattle, and a smattering of voices in Portland&#8230; we have&#8230; some &#8220;elements&#8221; of <a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/blogs\/blog-briefing-room\/news\/250667-protesters-interrupt-bernie-sanders-rally\">Black Lives Matter<\/a>&#8230; who had previously chastized Martin O&#8217;Malley for saying &#8220;Black lives matter.\u00c2\u00a0 White Lives matter.\u00c2\u00a0 All lives matter&#8221; &#8212; and here it&#8217;s a &#8220;hm&#8221;&#8230; &#8220;Not using your privilege correctly&#8221; is the quote I see bandied around.<\/p>\n<p>The curious conundrum comes to the somewhat ruralified position Bernie Sanders has taken to gun control &#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rawstory.com\/2015\/07\/watch-bernie-sanders-clash-with-a-gun-control-activist-who-thinks-he-sounds-like-the-nra\/\">and I guess we&#8217;ll see this one continue apace<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>My final wondering is if Young Republicans will show up anywhere&#8230; I remember they proved fairly entertaining way back in 2004 with John Kerry&#8217;s apperance in town.\u00c2\u00a0 My guess is they&#8217;ll stick to Hillary Clinton, not having too much use for Bernie Sanders except as a cudgel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was curious about the Bernie Sanders appearance in Portland to know&#8230; just who would be out protesting him.\u00c2\u00a0 Understand we have forums out there from leftists of the Green \/ no vote \/ begruding Democrat but ugh ugh ugh variety who are holding forums around &#8220;Should the Left support Bernie Sanders?&#8221; &#8230; &#8230; the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14830","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=14830"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14830\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14831,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14830\/revisions\/14831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}