{"id":540,"date":"2017-10-29T20:31:33","date_gmt":"2017-10-30T01:31:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gayliberation.net\/blog\/?p=540"},"modified":"2017-10-29T20:31:33","modified_gmt":"2017-10-30T01:31:33","slug":"trump-is-the-symptom-of-a-wider-disease","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gayliberation.net\/blog\/2017\/10\/29\/trump-is-the-symptom-of-a-wider-disease\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump is the Symptom of a Wider Disease"},"content":{"rendered":"

Originally posted February 28, 2017<\/p>\n

Trump’s egotism and astounding ignorance are but symptoms of a system which produces such a candidate. <\/p>\n

Opposing Trump himself must be part of changing the wider society that produced both him, and a Democratic rival who was so uninspiring that the highest number of eligible voters in the last two decades of presidential contests chose not to vote.<\/p>\n

Watch this short film<\/a> of a large anti-Trump protest here in Chicago with GLN’s Andy Thayer speaking on why Trump himself is but a small part of a much bigger problem … <\/em><\/strong>and what we can do about it.<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

\"Anti-Trump<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

#stopTrump<\/a>, #stopdeportations<\/a> #nobannowall<\/a> #blacklivesmatter<\/a><\/p>\n

… and watch this short compilation of videos<\/a> from one of the big Chicago actions on the 1 month anniversary of Trump’s inauguration …<\/p>\n

\"Anti-Trump<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Originally posted February 28, 2017 Trump’s egotism and astounding ignorance are but symptoms of a system which produces such a candidate.  Opposing Trump himself must be part of changing the Continue Reading \u2192<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":541,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,26,86,2,101],"tags":[5,59,14,36],"class_list":["post-540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bigotry","category-racism","category-sexism","category-trump","category-womens-rights","tag-donald-trump","tag-immigrant-rights","tag-racism","tag-republicans"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gayliberation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gayliberation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gayliberation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gayliberation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gayliberation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=540"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gayliberation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":542,"href":"https:\/\/gayliberation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540\/revisions\/542"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gayliberation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gayliberation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gayliberation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gayliberation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}