{"id":30082,"date":"2020-04-10T10:15:15","date_gmt":"2020-04-10T15:15:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=30082"},"modified":"2020-04-10T10:26:06","modified_gmt":"2020-04-10T15:26:06","slug":"mitch-in-a-better-light","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=30082","title":{"rendered":"Mitch in a better light"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a better world I could like Mitch McConnell. He is trapped in a world and also leading the charge to make it a world of permanent Republican supremacy. That isn&#8217;t quite the world he was elected into when he first got to the US Senate but that&#8217;s the world he is trying to engineer now in the Courts, with gerrymandering, with lying-through-their-teeth &#8220;news&#8221; sources, and tons of cash released by the Supreme Court to infect our political system. It leaves me to ask the age old question <em>What have I gained by capturing the whole world at the sacrifice of my soul<\/em>?<\/p>\n<p>He recently did the right thing by pushing the two trillion dollar cash infusion into the economy. His past was a part of what pushed him to set aside the myopic principles of the Trumplicanized GOP. This story is worth a read as a reminder that Corona Virus isn&#8217;t our first plague. I was born into the Polio epidemic that tackled Mitch when he was just a toddler. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Article: Coronavirus pandemic reminds Sen. Mitch McConnell of his childhood polio fight in Alabama<br \/>\n<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/flip.it\/mIrVDD\">https:\/\/flip.it\/mIrVDD<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a better world I could like Mitch McConnell. He is trapped in a world and also leading the charge to make it a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[134,138],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civility","category-corona-virus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30082","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30082"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30082\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30087,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30082\/revisions\/30087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}