{"id":23678,"date":"2017-01-17T05:35:32","date_gmt":"2017-01-17T10:35:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=23678"},"modified":"2017-01-17T05:36:43","modified_gmt":"2017-01-17T10:36:43","slug":"bernie-sanders-has-the-right-message-but-the-wrong-strategy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2017\/01\/17\/bernie-sanders-has-the-right-message-but-the-wrong-strategy\/","title":{"rendered":"Bernie Sanders Has The Right Message\u2014But The Wrong Strategy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Media ite<\/em> has the post <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mediaite.com\/online\/bernie-sanders-has-the-right-message-but-the-wrong-strategy\/\" target=\"_blank\">Bernie Sanders Has The Right Message\u2014But The Wrong Strategy<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nBut the problem is who Sanders is allowing to piggyback off his powerful, consistent message. Schumer embodies everything that\u2019s wrong, not only with the Democratic Party, but American politics in general. He\u2019s a politician that, over the years, has invested more in his own personal <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">perseverance<\/span> [preservation] of power than in helping the average, working class person he\u2019s entrusted in to represent.<br \/>\n.<br \/>\n.<br \/>\n.<br \/>\nBut if Sanders isn\u2019t careful, he\u2019ll repair a corporate-Democratic Party\u2019s badly beaten vehicle for it just as the country predictably turns against President Trump, who by the looks of it, will be delivering one disastrous policy after another.<\/p>\n<p>And without flinching, Schumer and the corporate establishment will open the car door, and toss him and the progressive movement he represents out into the muddy ditch\u2014on their road back to power.<\/p>\n<p>Senator Sanders, as obvious as it is not to drink and drive, it\u2019s as politically obvious: don\u2019t get in the car with Schumer and the oligarchs he represents. Or the ditch most Americans are already stuck in will only get muddier.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is exactly why I did not attend the event in Boston.  It seemed to be hosted by the Massachusetts congressional delegation personified by Elizabeth Warren.  They are all on the team with Schumer and his ilk.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Media ite has the post Bernie Sanders Has The Right Message\u2014But The Wrong Strategy. But the problem is who Sanders is allowing to piggyback off his powerful, consistent message. Schumer embodies everything that\u2019s wrong, not only with the Democratic Party, but American politics in general. He\u2019s a politician that, over the years, has invested more [&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-23678","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\/23678","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=23678"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23678\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23681,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23678\/revisions\/23681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}