{"id":15937,"date":"2020-08-28T08:19:38","date_gmt":"2020-08-28T15:19:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?p=15937"},"modified":"2020-08-28T08:26:32","modified_gmt":"2020-08-28T15:26:32","slug":"%f0%9f%97%b3-struck-by-a-statement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?p=15937","title":{"rendered":"&#x1f5f3; Struck by a Statement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-5020\" style=\"float: right; margin: 5px;\" src=\"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/userpicpolitical-buttons.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"98\" height=\"96\" \/><\/p>\n<p>While reading <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/politics\/elections\/2020\/08\/28\/rnc-tried-humanize-trump-demonize-biden-bid-suburban-voters\/5627750002\/\">a summary of the closing night of the RNC<\/a>, I was struck by a statement of President Trump:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;This election will decide whether we will defend the American way of life, or whether we allow a radical movement to completely dismantle and destroy it&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Understand what is being said here. The &#8220;American way of life&#8221; Trump seeks to defend is one in which:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The wealthy get wealthier, and the poor &#8230; get poorer or stay the same.<\/li>\n<li>The Whites retain their privilege in society.<\/li>\n<li>Women remain 70% citizens, and decisions about their bodies are made by men.<\/li>\n<li>Blacks and minorities are inherently viewed as something untrustworty.<\/li>\n<li>Militaristic policing is acceptable.<\/li>\n<li>Bending, exploiting, and cheating the system for personal gain is acceptable<\/li>\n<li>The rules don&#8217;t matter if you have wealth.<\/li>\n<li>Religion should dictate the rules we follow.<\/li>\n<li>The dictates are caring about yourself, and leaving others to fend for themselves.<\/li>\n<li>Election interference by foreign governments or to benefit the party in power is acceptable.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The supposed &#8220;radical&#8221; movement is one that believes the notion of equal justice applies to all, and that injustice to one is injustice to all. The &#8220;radical&#8221; movement believes that for society to be healthy, everyone needs the ability to be healthy &#8212; in mind, body, and spirit. The &#8220;radical&#8221; movement believes that government should work FOR the people, not for their personal gain or the gain of their friends. Oh, and that &#8220;equal justice&#8221;? That also means that wealth does not allow you to bypass justice or societal obligations: you are part of society, you are subject to the rule and you pay for the upkeep of society. Oh, and that &#8220;radical&#8221; movements believes elections should be fair, and that every citizen should vote and have that vote counted.<\/p>\n<p>Funny, but I don&#8217;t see the &#8220;radical&#8221; group as destroying America. I see them preserving and defending the ideals that made America great, not the invasive attitudes that are destroying it. I see this radical group as building America back, better.<\/p>\n<p>B&#8221;H 2020.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While reading a summary of the closing night of the RNC, I was struck by a statement of President Trump: &#8220;This election will decide whether we will defend the American way of life, or whether we allow a radical movement to completely dismantle and destroy it&#8221; Understand what is being said here. The &#8220;American way <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?p=15937\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,36],"tags":[533],"class_list":["post-15937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-rant","tag-decision-2020"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15937","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15937"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15937\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15939,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15937\/revisions\/15939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}