{"id":2300,"date":"2016-02-29T12:55:22","date_gmt":"2016-02-29T20:55:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/?p=2300"},"modified":"2016-02-29T12:55:22","modified_gmt":"2016-02-29T20:55:22","slug":"before-we-take-the-plunge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/?p=2300","title":{"rendered":"Before we take the plunge&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u2026the conventional wisdom is already firming up that it\u2019s going to be Hillary vs Trump. And that\u2019s <em>terrifying<\/em> to me. Not because I have any doubt that HRC would do a fine job as President &#8211; at least as fine a job as it\u2019s possible to do in the 21st century with our inherently-broken system &#8211; but because Democrats fall in love, Republicans fall in line, and I am positive that for every Bernie millenial that sighs and punches out of the process there\u2019s a Republican who will forget they tweeted #NeverTrump last week and join the National Review in deciding that no matter how bad The Donald is, he\u2019s still better than allowing the Evil Queen Bitch-Goddess of all Republican demonology for the last 25 years to make her way into the White House.<\/p>\n<p>Memo to all Democrats thinking of crossing the aisle to pull the lever for Trump because he\u2019s more beatable: <em>you better fucking know you\u2019ll be able to beat him.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2026the conventional wisdom is already firming up that it\u2019s going to be Hillary vs Trump. And that\u2019s terrifying to me. Not because I have any doubt that HRC would do a fine job as President &#8211; at least as fine a job as it\u2019s possible to do in the 21st century with our inherently-broken system &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/?p=2300\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Before we take the plunge&#8230;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2300"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2300\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}