{"id":13367,"date":"2017-12-19T22:44:29","date_gmt":"2017-12-20T04:44:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=13367"},"modified":"2017-12-19T22:44:29","modified_gmt":"2017-12-20T04:44:29","slug":"but-you-didnt-address-their-incompetence-ctd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2017\/12\/19\/but-you-didnt-address-their-incompetence-ctd\/","title":{"rendered":"But You Didn\u2019t Address Their Incompetence, Ctd"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A reader responds to the turf damage the <em><strong>GOP<\/strong><\/em> is doing as it <a href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2017\/12\/17\/but-you-didnt-address-their-incompetence\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">does donuts<\/a> throughout our country:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>However, in the mean time, their behavior is dramatically damaging the fabric of society, including the ability of a democracy to exist at all. When facts cease to exist, and no one knows what to believe, and we&#8217;ve fractioned into numerous factions, signs all point towards the country becoming an authoritarian, second-rate economy.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yep. Today Steve Benen <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.com\/rachel-maddow-show\/taxes-republicans-try-faith-based-approach-governing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">suggested<\/a> that the <em><strong>GOP<\/strong><\/em> is practicing &#8220;faith-based governance&#8221;. I think when we descend into &#8220;faith-based arguments&#8221;, aka <em>fact-free debates<\/em>, then we&#8217;re well and truly fucked. And that appears to be where the <em><strong>GOP<\/strong><\/em> wants to go. Their lust for power is shameless and seems to know no bounds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A reader responds to the turf damage the GOP is doing as it does donuts throughout our country: However, in the mean time, their behavior is dramatically damaging the fabric of society, including the ability of a democracy to exist at all. When facts cease to exist, and no one \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2017\/12\/19\/but-you-didnt-address-their-incompetence-ctd\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13367"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13367\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13369,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13367\/revisions\/13369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}