{"id":528,"date":"2005-10-08T14:38:59","date_gmt":"2005-10-08T21:38:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/?p=528"},"modified":"2005-10-08T14:38:59","modified_gmt":"2005-10-08T21:38:59","slug":"kurt-vonnegut-and-the-standard-opinion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2005\/10\/08\/kurt-vonnegut-and-the-standard-opinion\/","title":{"rendered":"Kurt Vonnegut and the standard opinion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name=\"003729\"><\/a><i>We have only a one party government. It&#8217;s the winners. And then everybody else is the losers. And the winners divided into two parties. The Republicans and the Democrats. What a charade the combat between the Republicans and the Democrats is. It&#8217;s rich kids&#8230;We had to choose between two members of Skull and Bones!<\/i> &#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/now\/arts\/vonnegut.html\">Kurt Vonnegut<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Dig deeper and you&#8217;ll find some comments <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/now\/php\/quotes.php?quote_date=2005-10-07\">from erstwhere<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><i>In the mid-1930s, my father frequently stated the our two Political Parties were miss-named. They should be named &#8220;The Ins and the Outs,&#8221; because the &#8220;Ins&#8221; will do absolutely anything to stay in &#8211; and the &#8220;Outs&#8221; will do absolutely anything to get in &#8211; and that is what they both spend 99% of their time doing. Nothing else is really important to either Party, and those who want support in either Party must to the mark to get in, and stay in, Power!<\/i> (Chic Stone)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We have only a one party government. It&#8217;s the winners. And then everybody else is the losers. And the winners divided into two parties. The Republicans and the Democrats. What a charade the combat between the Republicans and the Democrats is. It&#8217;s rich kids&#8230;We had to choose between two members of Skull and Bones! &#8212; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528","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=528"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}