{"id":13990,"date":"2018-01-27T11:09:37","date_gmt":"2018-01-27T17:09:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=13990"},"modified":"2018-01-27T11:09:37","modified_gmt":"2018-01-27T17:09:37","slug":"there-are-requirements-for-membership-in-this-club","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2018\/01\/27\/there-are-requirements-for-membership-in-this-club\/","title":{"rendered":"There Are Requirements For Membership In This Club"},"content":{"rendered":"

In WaPo’s<\/strong> DemocracyPost<\/strong><\/em>, Christian Caryl takes note<\/a> of certain poll results:<\/p>\n

Trump attacks the press? One\u00a0poll this past July<\/a>\u00a0showed that 45 percent of Republicans approved of the government shutting down media deemed \u201cbiased or inaccurate.\u201d Trump plays fast and loose with democratic norms? An\u00a0August survey\u00a0<\/a>found that fully half of GOP voters would support postponing the next presidential election if Trump proposed it. Trump praises Russian President Vladimir Putin? A\u00a0poll this past May<\/a>\u00a0found that 49 percent of Republican voters regard Russia as friendly or an ally. Trump\u00a0expresses frustration<\/a>\u00a0with democratic constraints on his power? A Pew Research Center poll last year\u00a0revealed<\/a>\u00a0that fully one-third of Republicans favor the idea of a strong leader who can govern without interference from Congress or the courts.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And to those Republicans who affirm these positions, I should like to say …<\/p>\n

You may be Republicans, but you are not Americans any longer.<\/strong><\/h2>\n

I’m not going to bother to say I’m ashamed of those Republicans, or appalled. Folks, if that’s how desperate you are to hold on to the privilege of governing, of being part of some imagined elite that depends on being in control of American government, then you’re no longer Americans.<\/p>\n

You simply yearn to be a member of an autocratic country. And we don’t need you here.<\/p>\n

Being American means believing we function best as a Republic, with elected representatives with specified powers, all corralled by checks and balances, and kept relatively honest by a free press. If any of that is not to your taste, hey, Russia’s always looking for new citizens.<\/p>\n

Write and tell us how that works out for you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In WaPo’s DemocracyPost, Christian Caryl takes note of certain poll results: Trump attacks the press? One\u00a0poll this past July\u00a0showed that 45 percent of Republicans approved of the government shutting down media deemed \u201cbiased or inaccurate.\u201d Trump plays fast and loose with democratic norms? An\u00a0August survey\u00a0found that fully half of GOP \u2026 Continue reading → <\/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-13990","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\/13990","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=13990"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13990\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13991,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13990\/revisions\/13991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}