{"id":2820,"date":"2019-10-26T10:08:16","date_gmt":"2019-10-26T14:08:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/?p=2820"},"modified":"2019-10-26T10:08:16","modified_gmt":"2019-10-26T14:08:16","slug":"the-democrats-have-evolved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/?p=2820","title":{"rendered":"The Democrats Have Evolved"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sinkers.org\/posters\/democratsevolve\/democratsevolve.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" style=\"border: 0px none; margin: 0px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sinkers.org\/posters\/democratsevolve\/democratsevolve650w.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"1030\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>So, just to recap all the pants-crapping<\/strong> over Hillary Clinton&#8217;s smears of Democratic White House Wannabe Tulsi Gabbard:<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><em><strong>&#8211; Hilldawg crawls out of woods to fling smears<\/strong> alleging sinister Russian influence over Tulsi Gabbard candidacy.<br \/>\n<strong>&#8211; Defenders rightly speak out<\/strong> against fresh round of baseless McCarthyist smears, citing Rep. Gabbard&#8217;s service in Iraq: &#8220;How dare you smear this glorious hero who defended our nation?&#8221;<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #666699;\">G<\/span>ot it? Good, then&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Unfortunately, centrist Dems have amnesia about the 2000s&#8230; which is necessary, since they have adopted opposite beliefs.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; 2005 Dems: \u201cBush is a criminal! Bring our troops home!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; 2019 Dems: \u201cWe need our troops everywhere! Only foreign assets say otherwise! Bush is awesome!\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/hNi3X4xV0T\">https:\/\/t.co\/hNi3X4xV0T<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 PRIMO NUTMEG (@PRIMONUTMEG) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PRIMONUTMEG\/status\/1187146329128165377?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 23, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>This whole mass aneurysm illustrates the extent that the Democratic Party has shifted in the past ten, fifteen years \u2014 from howling about US involvement in Iraq and &#8220;endless war&#8221; to stanning a politician who brags about her &#8220;service&#8221; in a war based on lies which killed nearly a million people. Their whole response centers around smarmy &#8220;thank you for your service&#8221; babbling, dispensing with any discussion of the ethics of the Iraq war and rehabbing George W. Bush on the Ellen DeGeneres Show.<\/p>\n<p>As one wag on Twitter put it, the US antiwar movement has shrunk to &#8220;atomic size&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><strong>11&#215;17 inch medium-res <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sinkers.org\/posters\/democratsevolve\/democratsevolve.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">color .jpg image,<\/a> 1.3mb.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, just to recap all the pants-crapping over Hillary Clinton&#8217;s smears of Democratic White House Wannabe Tulsi Gabbard: &#8211; Hilldawg crawls out of woods to fling smears alleging sinister Russian influence over Tulsi Gabbard candidacy. &#8211; Defenders rightly speak out against fresh round of baseless McCarthyist smears, citing Rep. Gabbard&#8217;s service in Iraq: &#8220;How dare [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[958,7,13,10,132,799],"tags":[1009,1008],"class_list":["post-2820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2020-election","category-elections","category-iraq","category-media","category-party-animals","category-russiagate","tag-hillary-clinton","tag-tulsi-gabbard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2820","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=2820"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2820\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2830,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2820\/revisions\/2830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}