{"id":46006,"date":"2021-01-11T21:29:30","date_gmt":"2021-01-11T21:29:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=46006"},"modified":"2021-01-11T21:29:30","modified_gmt":"2021-01-11T21:29:30","slug":"is-america-great-again-yet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=46006","title":{"rendered":"Is America &#8216;great again&#8217; yet?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=MAGA%20%23DCriot&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Every-Republican-State-Legislator-Spotted-At-Rally-Before-Capitol-Riot.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-46007\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Every-Republican-State-Legislator-Spotted-At-Rally-Before-Capitol-Riot-300x206.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"206\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Every-Republican-State-Legislator-Spotted-At-Rally-Before-Capitol-Riot-300x206.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Every-Republican-State-Legislator-Spotted-At-Rally-Before-Capitol-Riot-1024x704.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Every-Republican-State-Legislator-Spotted-At-Rally-Before-Capitol-Riot-768x528.jpg 768w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Every-Republican-State-Legislator-Spotted-At-Rally-Before-Capitol-Riot-1536x1056.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Every-Republican-State-Legislator-Spotted-At-Rally-Before-Capitol-Riot-2048x1408.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>By JOHN KANELIS \/ johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>I have some words to share with the MAGA-hatters who might be reading these messages of mine.<\/p>\n<p>We all know what MAGA means. It has become the acronym <em>du jour<\/em> for &#8220;Make America Great Again.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I have used it a time or two &#8212; and that&#8217;s about it &#8212; as a verb, as in &#8220;Let&#8217;s all MAGA!&#8221; It usually shows up as an adjective to describe those who adhere to the message made infamous by one Donald J. Trump.<\/p>\n<p>Have we done it? Those who subscribe to the MAGA world view, I want to know whether we have &#8220;made America great again.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I was astonished beyond my ability to articulate at the sight of MAGA-hatted rioters plundering the U.S. Capitol Building. Think of the ghastly irony of that, if you have the stomach for it; I am not sure I can quite process it fully.<\/p>\n<p>The MAGA crowd stormed into the Capitol alongside others carrying the flag of traitors, aka the Confederate flag. Think as well of <em>that<\/em> particular irony. MAGA-hatters profess to want to return America to greatness while ransacking the heart of our democratic system along with those plundering with them under the banner of the flag representing a confederation of states that sought to destroy America. Oh, and why did they want to tear the nation apart? T<em>hey launched the Civil War to retain their right to own slaves<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Wow, man! How does it feel, MAGA-hatters? Have you accomplished all you set out to do?<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=MAGA%20%23DCriot&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By JOHN KANELIS \/ johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com I have some words to share with the MAGA-hatters who might be reading these messages of mine. We all know what MAGA means. It has become the acronym du jour for &#8220;Make America Great Again.&#8221; I have used it a time or two &#8212; and that&#8217;s about it &#8212; as &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=46006\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Is America &#8216;great again&#8217; yet?<\/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":[849,9593,7419],"class_list":["post-46006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","tag-capitol-hill","tag-dc-riot","tag-maga"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46006","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=46006"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46006\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46008,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46006\/revisions\/46008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}