{"id":38090,"date":"2026-03-16T08:52:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T13:52:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=38090"},"modified":"2026-03-18T10:55:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T15:55:09","slug":"the-long-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=38090","title":{"rendered":"The Long Game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last Post: <a href=\"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=38085\">Things are not always what they seem Part 1<\/a><br \/>\nNext Post: <a href=\"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=38096\">Things are not always what they seem Part 2<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/55099597489_cd28819125_t.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/> <strong>Click here if you want a return to Lincoln<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/weltyforcongress.com\">Weltyforcongress.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Well. When I finished the last post I realized I&#8217;d covered most of<em> my &#8220;long game&#8221; <\/em>in these three paragraphs:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Now that that&#8217;s off my chest, for five minutes, back to the thread of this post and the next two to follow.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been wavering between several goals ever since I first file against Pete Staiber&#8217;s finger licking politics back in 2018. Fixing the Party of Lincoln. Cleaving off a Party of Lincoln from the Trumplican stampede. Running as a Democrat to teach Republicans a lesson. Writing books that make America slap is forehead and wake up. Writing books to make Republicans wake up or Independents wake up&#8230;&#8230;or make Americans want to read their history.<\/p>\n<p>Being in Congress is only interesting to me because if I got that far I&#8217;d have a larger audience, Maybe even a large enough audience to accomplish the previous paragraphs objectives. As it is I haven&#8217;t put anything together that will get more than a dozen people to a posat like this one.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>So, getting elected which is a remote possibility at best and getting more remote with every passing year would, even if it happened, only be a short term gain when long term I want our Democracy to live on, Abraham Lincoln&#8217;s legacy of liberality to live on and for the stink of Trump to break through the cloth&#8217;s pins on Trump voter&#8217;s noses.<\/p>\n<p>And of course for them to see that they will need to know that things (like a powerful Trump) are not always what they seem. <a href=\"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=38096\">Next post <\/a>please.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last Post: Things are not always what they seem Part 1 Next Post: Things are not always what they seem Part 2 Click here&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,107],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38090"}],"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=38090"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38090\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38120,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38090\/revisions\/38120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}