{"id":11645,"date":"2016-12-28T11:59:08","date_gmt":"2016-12-28T16:59:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jamiegraymusic.com\/wordpress\/?p=11645"},"modified":"2016-12-28T11:59:08","modified_gmt":"2016-12-28T16:59:08","slug":"progressives-see-a-leader-in-bernie-sanders-as-they-prepare-to-fight-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jamiegraymusic.com\/wordpress\/2016\/12\/progressives-see-a-leader-in-bernie-sanders-as-they-prepare-to-fight-back\/","title":{"rendered":"Progressives see a leader in Bernie Sanders as they prepare to fight back"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img src='https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ifttt.com\/images\/no_image_card.png?w=980' style='max-width:600px;' data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<div>#Bernie2020.<br \/>\nBy then, it should be pretty clear that Trump has screwed us royally, and we&#8217;ll be ready to accept that Capitalism without a conscience is NOT what America should stand for. We are the ONLY country that refuses to take care of our sick, poor and elderly and tells them &#8220;pull yourselves up by your bootstraps&#8221;. Socialism is NOT communism&#8230;it is Capitalism with equity and economic justice for ALL&#8230;not just the rich.<br \/>\nAnd frankly, Socialism is not a fringe idea&#8230;it&#8217;s more like the World standard, subscribed to by the governments of nearly every developed country on the Planet.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/2iEjgku\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/2iEjgku<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>#Bernie2020. By then, it should be pretty clear that Trump has screwed us royally, and we&#8217;ll be ready to accept that Capitalism without a conscience is NOT what America should stand for. We are the ONLY country that refuses to take care of our sick, poor and elderly and tells them &#8220;pull yourselves up by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":[]},"categories":[14,480,456,132,429],"tags":[523,159,33,530,552],"class_list":["post-11645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-facebook","category-jamie-gray","category-news","category-shared-link","tag-blog","tag-facebook","tag-jamie-gray","tag-news","tag-shared"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":11341,"url":"https:\/\/jamiegraymusic.com\/wordpress\/2016\/12\/venezuela-seizes-4m-toys-to-distribute-to-poor-children-as-christmas-gifts\/","url_meta":{"origin":11645,"position":0},"title":"Venezuela seizes 4m toys to distribute to poor children as Christmas gifts","date":"December 10, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"This is a really cool Christmas story. 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