{"id":41198,"date":"2020-02-12T03:58:46","date_gmt":"2020-02-12T03:58:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=41198"},"modified":"2020-02-12T03:58:46","modified_gmt":"2020-02-12T03:58:46","slug":"is-there-a-doomsday-scenario-developing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=41198","title":{"rendered":"Is there a doomsday scenario developing?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=Bernie%20%23MAGA%20%23NHprimary%20%23JoeBiden&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/bernie-sanders-ap-mo-20180413_hpMain_4x3_992.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-34512\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/bernie-sanders-ap-mo-20180413_hpMain_4x3_992-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/bernie-sanders-ap-mo-20180413_hpMain_4x3_992-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/bernie-sanders-ap-mo-20180413_hpMain_4x3_992-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/bernie-sanders-ap-mo-20180413_hpMain_4x3_992.jpg 992w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Bernie Sanders appears to be winning the New Hampshire Democratic presidential primary.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the one-time national frontrunner, Joe Biden, is finishing in a distant fifth or sixth place, pulling a single-digit turnout.<\/p>\n<p>The former vice president of the United States, my preferred candidate, now must win in South Carolina. If he doesn&#8217;t win, he&#8217;s a goner.<\/p>\n<p>Sanders is the &#8220;democratic socialist&#8221; who, if the Democratic Party nominates him, is going to walk straight into the Donald John Trump sausage grinder.<\/p>\n<p>Are we being forced to accept the notion that Democrats just might nominate someone who wants to dramatically reshape the fundamental dynamic of our national economy?<\/p>\n<p>Sanders keeps talking about leading a &#8220;movement.&#8221; Well, I am growing concerned that his movement is going to march off a political cliff and give a fundamentally unfit incumbent president a second term that &#8212; in my ever-so-humble view &#8212; might be more than this country can handle.<\/p>\n<p>I am not liking what I am witnessing in this Democratic primary.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=Bernie%20%23MAGA%20%23NHprimary%20%23JoeBiden&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bernie Sanders appears to be winning the New Hampshire Democratic presidential primary. Meanwhile, the one-time national frontrunner, Joe Biden, is finishing in a distant fifth or sixth place, pulling a single-digit turnout. The former vice president of the United States, my preferred candidate, now must win in South Carolina. If he doesn&#8217;t win, he&#8217;s a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=41198\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Is there a doomsday scenario developing?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[597,2505,3261,5512],"class_list":["post-41198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","tag-bernie-sanders","tag-joe-biden","tag-new-hampshire-primary","tag-socialism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41198"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41198\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41199,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41198\/revisions\/41199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}