{"id":2571,"date":"2018-07-21T12:53:07","date_gmt":"2018-07-21T16:53:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/?p=2571"},"modified":"2018-07-24T16:08:23","modified_gmt":"2018-07-24T20:08:23","slug":"its-official-the-democrats-dont-care","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/?p=2571","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s Official: The Democrats Don&#8217;t Care"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sinkers.org\/posters\/midtermissues\/midtermissues.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sinkers.org\/posters\/midtermissues\/midtermissues650w.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>So, this makes it official: the Democratic Party doesn&#8217;t care. <\/strong>They aren&#8217;t running in the midterms on the issues of skyrocketing college tuition, income disparity, police terrorism and murder, or any other issues directly affecting anyone remaing who bothers to vote &#8212; they think they&#8217;re going to surf that &#8220;Blue Wave&#8221; into a majority on the Hill by <a href=\"https:\/\/tinyurl.com\/y8o6pmzc\" target=\"_blank\">ramping up the krazy<\/a> on their empty, hollow conspiracy theories and bargain-basement McCarthyism.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/tinyurl.com\/y8o6pmzc\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" style=\"border: 1px solid black; margin: 5px 10px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sinkers.org\/posters\/midtermissues\/WaPoWebJuly1718screenshot.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"435\" \/><\/a>Those of you from outside the US looking in on the state of politics and media discourse here might guess that you were watching a community theatre production of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rhinoceros_(play)\" target=\"_blank\">an Ionesco play,<\/a> and you would be absolutely right. The worst of it, though, is that those of us living here are all pretty much trapped in the play whether we like it or not.<\/p>\n<p><strong>11&#215;17 inch medium-res <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sinkers.org\/posters\/midtermissues\/midtermissues.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">color .jpg image,<\/a> 896kb<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong>UPDATED: The Raving Donkey &#8220;Tripping Balls Mix&#8221;<\/strong><\/span> now available as an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sinkers.org\/posters\/midtermissues\/ravingdonkey03.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>11&#215;17 poster (150 dpi)<\/strong><\/a> and as an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sinkers.org\/posters\/midtermissues\/ravingdonkey02memetemplate72dpi.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>11&#215;17 meme template (72dpi).<\/strong><\/a> Here&#8217;s a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sinkers.org\/posters\/midtermissues\/ravingdonkey_reiner_treason.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;serving suggestion&#8221;;<\/a> the recommended fonts are Gotham Book and Medium, to match Democratic Party branding. Have at it, funsters!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, this makes it official: the Democratic Party doesn&#8217;t care. They aren&#8217;t running in the midterms on the issues of skyrocketing college tuition, income disparity, police terrorism and murder, or any other issues directly affecting anyone remaing who bothers to vote &#8212; they think they&#8217;re going to surf that &#8220;Blue Wave&#8221; into a majority on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[74,20,5,10,132,799,762],"tags":[918,915,916,917],"class_list":["post-2571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-health-care","category-liberty","category-media","category-party-animals","category-russiagate","category-trumpism","tag-treasonsummit","tag-helsinki","tag-traitor","tag-treason"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2571","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2571"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2571\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2577,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2571\/revisions\/2577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}