{"id":16875,"date":"2017-11-04T17:49:02","date_gmt":"2017-11-05T00:49:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/?p=16875"},"modified":"2017-11-05T13:47:40","modified_gmt":"2017-11-05T20:47:40","slug":"go-the-way-of-the","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2017\/11\/04\/go-the-way-of-the\/","title":{"rendered":"go the way of the &#8212;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>&#8220;The electoral history of the last seven or eight years is pretty abysmal. America\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s oldest political party may go the way of the Federalists. It needs to reconnect with grass-roots supporters.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/11\/03\/us\/politics\/a-new-book-highlights-some-old-divisions-among-democrats.html\">This is interesting<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 Not necessarily the sentiment, which is expressed one way or the other about the two parties at various times since &#8230; 1856? &#8230; but in that it&#8217;s usually expressed with &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Go the way of the Whigs&#8221;. \u00c2\u00a0 At 98200 google hits versus 8820 google results for &#8220;go the way of the Federalists&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>What prompted this Bernie -ster (incidentally, a backer of a politician who is not a member of the Democratic Party, so why would he care?) to skip the Whig Party and go way back to the original political party to fade into oblivion?\u00c2\u00a0 As a general course, the reason the Whig Party gets cited &#8212; and it would make sense in context here &#8212; is that the party&#8217;s demise came by its inability to grapple with the moral issue of the day (slavery), which exposed the party as a constellation of self interested office seekers.<\/p>\n<p>The Federalists&#8217; nail in the coffin happened when they sought New England secession during the War of 1812.\u00c2\u00a0 A little bit the opposite &#8212; one fractures due to attempted centrism, the other due to extremism.\u00c2\u00a0 Or is he suggesting that something will brew with California and a lot of those states?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The electoral history of the last seven or eight years is pretty abysmal. America\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s oldest political party may go the way of the Federalists. It needs to reconnect with grass-roots supporters.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d This is interesting.\u00c2\u00a0 Not necessarily the sentiment, which is expressed one way or the other about the two parties at various times since &#8230; [&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-16875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16875","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=16875"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16875\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16878,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16875\/revisions\/16878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}