{"id":9115,"date":"2015-04-29T03:09:27","date_gmt":"2015-04-29T03:09:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=9115"},"modified":"2015-04-29T03:09:27","modified_gmt":"2015-04-29T03:09:27","slug":"sanders-to-fight-to-democratic-left","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=9115","title":{"rendered":"Sanders to fight for Democratic left"},"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>Pundits all across the land have been talking about the Republican base and the core values it seeks for its party.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the <em>Democratic<\/em> base has been relatively quiet &#8230; until now.<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders, a Vermont independent, is going to announce his candidacy for the Democratic presidential nomination.<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/news\/politics\/report-sen-bernie-sanders-to-announce-2016-bid-thursday\/ar-BBiN6mJ<\/p>\n<p>Hillary Rodham Clinton will get her first real challenger in her campaign for the same nomination.<\/p>\n<p>Sanders will run from the far left wing of his party, kind of like the way Ted Cruz is running from the far right wing of his Republican Party.<\/p>\n<p>Wow! Think about this: What if Sanders and Cruz win their parties&#8217; presidential nomination next year?<\/p>\n<p>Sanders is a hard-core socialist. He favors wealth distribution, wage equality, marriage equality, universal health care and massive cuts in defense spending.<\/p>\n<p>He thinks Hillary Clinton is too cozy with Wall Street and likely is going to hold her Senate vote in 2003 in favor of going to war with Iraq against her.<\/p>\n<p>Does the maverick independent stand a chance at winning the Democratic nomination? You have to say &#8220;no.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Then again &#8230;<\/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>Pundits all across the land have been talking about the Republican base and the core values it seeks for its party. Meanwhile, the Democratic base has been relatively quiet &#8230; until now. On Thursday, U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders, a Vermont independent, is going to announce his candidacy for the Democratic presidential nomination. http:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/news\/politics\/report-sen-bernie-sanders-to-announce-2016-bid-thursday\/ar-BBiN6mJ Hillary Rodham &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=9115\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Sanders to fight for Democratic left<\/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":[14],"tags":[597,1336,2139,2334,2923,4537,4980,5147,5212],"class_list":["post-9115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-political-news","tag-bernie-sanders","tag-democratic-nomination","tag-hillary-clinton","tag-iraq-war","tag-marriage-equality","tag-ted-cruz","tag-u-s-senate","tag-wage-equality","tag-wealth-distribution"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9115","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=9115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9115\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}