{"id":20887,"date":"2015-05-30T11:42:35","date_gmt":"2015-05-30T15:42:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=20887"},"modified":"2015-05-30T11:42:35","modified_gmt":"2015-05-30T15:42:35","slug":"gaius-publius-sinking-the-sanders-campaign-beneath-a-wave-of-silence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2015\/05\/30\/gaius-publius-sinking-the-sanders-campaign-beneath-a-wave-of-silence\/","title":{"rendered":"Gaius Publius: Sinking the Sanders Campaign Beneath a Wave of Silence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Naked Capitalism<\/em> has the article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/2015\/05\/gaius-publius-sinking-the-sanders-campaign-beneath-a-wave-of-silence.html\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Naked Capitalism article\">Gaius Publius: Sinking the Sanders Campaign Beneath a Wave of Silence<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The point of the article is not so much, \u201cWhat is Bernie going to do about it\u201d, and more \u201cWhat are you and I going to do about it?\u201d While we still have access to the internet, this is the biggest tool we have to get things done our way. It is up to us to use it, Tweet, Facebook, Blog, MeetUp, Organize, Petition, or do whatever else you can imagine doing on the internet to overcome the lame stream media\u2019s silence.<\/p>\n<p>Don\u2019t just sit back and say it can\u2019t be done. How do you know it can\u2019t be done, if you don\u2019t try? If a 72 year old guy can muster the energy, perhaps the younger folk can find a little energy to invest, too. (Of course forcing you to have to work two or three jobs to make ends meet, is a good way for the oligarchs to make sure you don\u2019t have too much excess energy to devote to politics.) If you are participating in this thread, then you must have some spare time on your hands.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey\u201d may have the money, but, at least for the time being, \u201cwe have the votes.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Naked Capitalism has the article Gaius Publius: Sinking the Sanders Campaign Beneath a Wave of Silence. The point of the article is not so much, \u201cWhat is Bernie going to do about it\u201d, and more \u201cWhat are you and I going to do about it?\u201d While we still have access to the internet, this is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-20887","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-stevegsposts","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20887","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20887"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20887\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20888,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20887\/revisions\/20888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}