{"id":58474,"date":"2025-06-05T11:03:38","date_gmt":"2025-06-05T11:03:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=58474"},"modified":"2025-06-05T11:03:38","modified_gmt":"2025-06-05T11:03:38","slug":"peaceful-transition-is-part-of-democracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=58474","title":{"rendered":"Peaceful transition is part of democracy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n\r\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap\">When I hear former presidents of the United States discuss the value of turning over the keys to the White House to successors in a &#8220;peaceful transition of power,&#8221; It is absolutely impossible to avoid bringing to mind what happened on Jan. 6, 2021.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Barack Obama famously spoke of the temporary nature of his family&#8217;s residency in the White House. As did George W. Bush before him and Bill Clinton before Bush&#8217;s election in 2000. I listen to these men&#8217;s comments occasionally on social media platforms that continue to carry those remarks.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>When I do, I am drawn immediately to Donald Trump&#8217;s refusal to acknowledge defeat in 2020 and the assault he allowed to occur on Jan. 6 on the Capitol as Congress met to ratify the result of the free, fair and legal election of Joe Biden as president.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Presidents must acknowledge as these recent occupants of the White House have done that they are there for a short time. Obama said that &#8220;we are renters here.&#8221;<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>All that happened on Jan. 6 only serves to remind me of what could occur post-2028 election if a candidate from the Democratic Party manages to defeat whoever the Republicans present as a candidate for the presidency.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>It&#8217;s also why I am going to stake my country&#8217;s future on the ability of our Constitution to do the job our founders intended when they created this government. The Constitution is strong and it will endure.<\/p>\r\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>When I hear former presidents of the United States discuss the value of turning over the keys to the White House to successors in a &#8220;peaceful transition of power,&#8221; It is absolutely impossible to avoid bringing to mind what happened on Jan. 6, 2021. Barack Obama famously spoke of the temporary nature of his family&#8217;s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=58474\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Peaceful transition is part of democracy<\/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":[9714,7419,5043],"class_list":["post-58474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","tag-jan-6","tag-maga","tag-us-constitution"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58474","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=58474"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58474\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58476,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58474\/revisions\/58476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}