{"id":23342,"date":"2016-11-19T21:05:04","date_gmt":"2016-11-20T02:05:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=23342"},"modified":"2016-11-19T21:09:39","modified_gmt":"2016-11-20T02:09:39","slug":"ralph-nader-democrats-have-lost-their-identity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2016\/11\/19\/ralph-nader-democrats-have-lost-their-identity\/","title":{"rendered":"Ralph Nader, &#8220;Democrats Have Lost Their Identity&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>YouTube<\/em> has the video <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/B1HPZv3-Gts\" target=\"_blank\">Ralph Nader, &#8220;Democrats Have Lost Their Identity&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n Big Picture Interview: Ralph Nader, <span style=\"font-style: normal; font-weight: bold;\">Breaking Through Power: It&#8217;s Easier Than We Think<\/span>, has a plan for progressives that could really shake things up.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div style=\"text-align:center\">\n    <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/B1HPZv3-Gts?rel=0\" style=\"border:thick ridge #009900\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<pre class=\"plain\"><\/pre>\n<p>I noticed that there have only been 16,914 views of this on YouTube as I write this.  The challenge I posed to those viewers and anybody viewing this post is:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nWhat are you going to do to get this number higher? I am going to blog it and Facebook it. If we all do that, then we get some visibility for this.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Another comment on YouTube was that the Green Party will take over from the Democrats.  To that Idea I commented:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nNice dream. I voted for Jill Stein and volunteered for her after Bernie dropped out. I have suggested that name recognition is her biggest and top priority problem. She needs to concentrate on getting the world to know about her and the Green Party. I suggested she write a book and go on a national book tour to promote it. I see that Bernie Sanders has beaten her to the punch. He has already written the book and is drawing crowds on his book tour. If the Green Party and Jill Stein snooze, they lose.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>YouTube has the video Ralph Nader, &#8220;Democrats Have Lost Their Identity&#8221; Big Picture Interview: Ralph Nader, Breaking Through Power: It&#8217;s Easier Than We Think, has a plan for progressives that could really shake things up. I noticed that there have only been 16,914 views of this on YouTube as I write this. The challenge I [&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-23342","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\/23342","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=23342"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23342\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23345,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23342\/revisions\/23345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}