{"id":57329,"date":"2024-07-19T00:03:38","date_gmt":"2024-07-19T00:03:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=57329"},"modified":"2024-07-19T00:03:38","modified_gmt":"2024-07-19T00:03:38","slug":"what-has-happened-to-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=57329","title":{"rendered":"What has happened to us?"},"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>You want any graphic example of just how topsy-turvy the US political system has become? Look at what is happening in Milwaukee this very evening.<\/p>\n<p>Republican convention delegates have nominated a former POTUS who was impeached twice during his term in office, who is accused of instigating an attack on our government and of trying to overturn a free and fair election, who has been convicted of 34 felony counts, is indicted on four additional felonies, been deemed liable for the rape of a woman and has admitted to being a sexual assailant.<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s more, GOP delegates are standing tall, firm and foursquare behind Donald Trump. They are united behind this man&#8217;s candidacy.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Democratic political leaders are turning on the incumbent president, Joe Biden, because of a poor debate performance, many of them calling on him to forgo his re-election campaign. They are splintered and Biden is in actual danger of losing the election to the guy he defeated four years ago.<\/p>\n<p>Many of us who have been around long enough remember earlier times when we wondered whether our system could survive tempest and tumult.<\/p>\n<p>But &#8230;. nothing like this!<\/p>\n<p>I am at a total loss to understand what has happened to my beloved United States of America.<\/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>You want any graphic example of just how topsy-turvy the US political system has become? Look at what is happening in Milwaukee this very evening. Republican convention delegates have nominated a former POTUS who was impeached twice during his term in office, who is accused of instigating an attack on our government and of trying &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=57329\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">What has happened to us?<\/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":[7932],"tags":[1424,2505,7419],"class_list":["post-57329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-donald-trump","tag-donald-trump","tag-joe-biden","tag-maga"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57329","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=57329"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57329\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57330,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57329\/revisions\/57330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}