{"id":821,"date":"2010-08-02T11:58:15","date_gmt":"2010-08-02T15:58:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=821"},"modified":"2010-08-02T11:58:15","modified_gmt":"2010-08-02T15:58:15","slug":"a-party-called-the-reasonables","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=821","title":{"rendered":"A party called the Reasonables&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well&#8230;on the eve of the primaries here in Michigan, I thought it might be an idea to start to put down on paper (or on the computer) what I propose should be the manifesto or platform of the the new political party called the Reasonables that I want to start. To begin, anyone can be part of the party; from the right, left, or center&#8230;I don&#8217;t care&#8230;but anyone who joins will be required to follow a few guiding principles whose purpose will be to change the toxic political landscape.<\/p>\n<p>First&#8230;.there will be no shouting allowed. None of the ranting that passes for political dialog these days.<br \/>\nSecond&#8230;.there will be no attack advertising by any of our candidates&#8230;it will be limited to policy statements that show what you are for&#8230;and solutions to the problems facing us.<br \/>\nThird&#8230;there will be no lying or distortions in our discussions or political interactions&#8230;.truth will be our motto&#8230;<br \/>\nFourth&#8230;you will be required to know what you are talking about&#8230;all opinions are not equal and ignorance will not be tolerated&#8230;<br \/>\nFifth&#8230;..any candidate of ours will be required to put the country first&#8230;not business or his or her re-election&#8230;<br \/>\nSixth&#8230;.there will no mention of religion, or god, or Jesus by any of our candidates&#8230;religion will be a private matter and the separation of church and state will be supported&#8230;<br \/>\nSeventh&#8230;.any candidate will use public financing of the election&#8230;there will be no billionaires buying seats in congress&#8230;<br \/>\nEighth&#8230;.our party will support and champion individual rights over those of the government and business&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s about it for now&#8230;as time goes on, I&#8217;ll be adding what I think is important to this platform and I welcome any comments on what you guys think should be done since we are building this thing from scratch&#8230;more later&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well&#8230;on the eve of the primaries here in Michigan, I thought it might be an idea to start to put down on paper (or on the computer) what I propose should be the manifesto or platform of the the new political party called the Reasonables that I want to start. To begin, anyone can be &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=821\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A party called the Reasonables&#8230;.<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[178,4367],"class_list":["post-821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc","tag-party","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/821","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=821"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/821\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":822,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/821\/revisions\/822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}