{"id":176972,"date":"2020-02-03T19:38:00","date_gmt":"2020-02-04T00:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2020\/02\/03\/missing-the-point\/"},"modified":"2020-02-03T19:38:00","modified_gmt":"2020-02-04T00:38:00","slug":"missing-the-point","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2020\/02\/03\/missing-the-point\/","title":{"rendered":"Missing the Point"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A number of publications have reported with much fanfare that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/politics\/politics-news\/bernie-sanders-leads-trump-all-2020-candidates-in-donations-from-active-duty-troops-946188\/\">Bernie Sanders is leading the field in donations from active duty military personnel by a large margin<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This misses the point, which is that we as a society should not give a flying f%$# in a rolling doughnut about this.<\/p>\n<p>The fact that it is a major story, and cast as a major victory for the Sanders campaign, is a reflection of a hyper militarized, and hence highly dysfunctional, society.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A number of publications have reported with much fanfare that Bernie Sanders is leading the field in donations from active duty military personnel by a large margin. This misses the point, which is that we as a society should not give a flying f%$# in a rolling doughnut about this. The fact that it is &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[513,379,595],"class_list":["post-176972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-campaign-finance","tag-military","tag-society"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176972"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176972"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176972\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}