{"id":3394,"date":"2017-02-20T09:05:25","date_gmt":"2017-02-20T17:05:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/?p=3394"},"modified":"2017-02-19T22:29:11","modified_gmt":"2017-02-20T06:29:11","slug":"reactions-to-trump-which-movie-are-we-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/reactions-to-trump-which-movie-are-we-in\/","title":{"rendered":"Reactions to Trump: which movie are we in?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If alarmed reactions to Trump were movies, here are the plots:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>&#8220;<strong>Let&#8217;s focus, focus, focus, on the 2018 elections<\/strong> and wrestle power back from this pack of thieves at the next opportunity&#8221;.<br \/>\n<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Starring<\/span>: a posse of Young Democrats.<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;<strong>This is the fight of our lives to protect the republic.<\/strong> The shining city on a hill is burning and it may well die. We will not accept a despotic banana republic.&#8221;<br \/>\n<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Starring<\/span>: middle-aged everypeople of all colors and orientations, worried about their kids, their partners, their neighbors and their health insurance.<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;<strong>It&#8217;s all over. Trump is just the latest symptom of a world that can&#8217;t get its act together<\/strong>, Humanity already had very little chance to survive global warming without major losses, but with clowns in charge all over the world, it&#8217;s definitely over.&#8221;<br \/>\n<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Starring<\/span>: a passel of increasingly washed-out scientists systematically emptying a run-down bar.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>The recent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/groups\/405478506457668\/\">Upgrade Democracy Unconference<\/a> had these movies playing in full technicolor, all at the same time. Perhaps one of the reasons many left confused.<\/p>\n<p>So which one is the correct narrative? Which movie to watch? Which movie to participate in and work like mad against the ticking clock?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If alarmed reactions to Trump were movies, here are the plots: &#8220;Let&#8217;s focus, focus, focus, on the 2018 elections and wrestle power back from this pack of thieves at the next opportunity&#8221;. Starring: a posse of Young Democrats. &#8220;This is the fight of our lives to protect the republic. The shining city on a hill&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"webmentions_disabled":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","kind-"],"kind":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3394"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3394\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3407,"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3394\/revisions\/3407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}