{"id":51784,"date":"2022-05-30T21:21:16","date_gmt":"2022-05-30T21:21:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=51784"},"modified":"2022-05-30T21:21:16","modified_gmt":"2022-05-30T21:21:16","slug":"crowd-reaction-portends-what","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=51784","title":{"rendered":"Crowd reaction portends &#8230; what?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/guns-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-51746\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/guns-300x156.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"156\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/guns-300x156.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/guns-1024x534.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/guns-768x400.jpg 768w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/guns-1536x800.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/guns-2048x1067.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Donald J. Trump is fond of holding rallies, listening to the noise coming from a sizable crowd &#8230; and then using the size and sound of his rallies as a measure of his political standing.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s foolishness, to be sure. However, if we apply that metric to the present day, consider this:<\/p>\n<p>Texas Gov. Greg Abbott ventured for the second day in a row to Uvalde, the site of the horrific slaughter of 19 school children and two teachers this past week.<\/p>\n<p>He got a rousing welcome, all right &#8230; of <em>boos! <\/em>The noise was loud and sustained.<\/p>\n<p>The stricken Uvalde residents want the governor to do something to end the violence. They speak for a lot of other Texans, not to mention even more millions of Americans who are shaken to their core by the violence that erupted against those precious children and their protectors.<\/p>\n<p>They blame Gov. Abbott for refusing to act. They are taking their anger out, too, on legislators who continue to dance to the tune called by the gun lobby &#8230; and ignoring the cadence set by their real bosses, the voters!<\/p>\n<p>It is long past the time for our elected representatives to &#8220;represent&#8221; the interests of voters, most of whom favor a legislative remedy to the carnage that continues to cause undue grief and misery.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><a href=\"mailto:johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com\">johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Donald J. Trump is fond of holding rallies, listening to the noise coming from a sizable crowd &#8230; and then using the size and sound of his rallies as a measure of his political standing. That&#8217;s foolishness, to be sure. However, if we apply that metric to the present day, consider this: Texas Gov. Greg &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=51784\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Crowd reaction portends &#8230; what?<\/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":[18],"tags":[9934],"class_list":["post-51784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-state-news","tag-uvalde-shooting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51784","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=51784"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51784\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51785,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51784\/revisions\/51785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}