{"id":24854,"date":"2017-11-10T20:02:05","date_gmt":"2017-11-11T01:02:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=24854"},"modified":"2017-11-10T20:02:05","modified_gmt":"2017-11-11T01:02:05","slug":"how-to-fix-the-democratic-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2017\/11\/10\/how-to-fix-the-democratic-party\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Fix the Democratic Party"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Politico<\/em> has the Bernie Sanders article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/magazine\/story\/2017\/11\/10\/bernie-sanders-how-to-fix-democratic-party-215813\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">How to Fix the Democratic Party<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nIndependent voters are critical to general election victories. Locking them out of primaries is a pathway to failure.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>What was infuriating during the primaries was that so many Democrats thought that they could win with a candidate that Democratic Party insiders loved, but the general public hated.  They didn&#8217;t seem to understand that in the general election, all people get to vote, not just Democrats as in the Democratic Primaries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Politico has the Bernie Sanders article How to Fix the Democratic Party. Independent voters are critical to general election victories. Locking them out of primaries is a pathway to failure. What was infuriating during the primaries was that so many Democrats thought that they could win with a candidate that Democratic Party insiders loved, but [&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-24854","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\/24854","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=24854"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24854\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24855,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24854\/revisions\/24855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}