{"id":486,"date":"2015-09-16T09:16:27","date_gmt":"2015-09-16T13:16:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/manassascitydemocrats.com\/?p=486"},"modified":"2015-09-16T09:16:27","modified_gmt":"2015-09-16T13:16:27","slug":"bernie-sanders-visits-manassas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/manassascitydemocrats.org\/?p=486","title":{"rendered":"Bernie Sanders visits Manassas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Monday, September 14, Bernie Sanders appeared before 2000-3000 folks at the Manassas Fair Grounds. \u00a0I could not attend but as I understand it, he addressed subjects such as income inequality, racism\/police brutality and respect for the police. \u00a0Earlier in the day, he addressed the students at Liberty University. \u00a0I noticed that he was very honest and straight-forward about his positions. \u00a0His social positions are inconsistent with Liberty University&#8217;s culture. \u00a0Nonetheless, he pressed forward regarding economic inequality which is something the students could probably understand and accept. \u00a0I think it&#8217;s good that Bernie is campaigning. \u00a0His tone is the absolute antithesis of The Donald who insults and obviously lacks any concrete plans or understanding of anything other than promoting hate. \u00a0I used to think he was entertaining and laughable. \u00a0But now not so much. \u00a0It&#8217;s scary to think that there are human beings who are seriously impressed by his rhetoric. \u00a0I get the argument: \u00a0The public is disenchanted with the status quo. \u00a0But is the answer to elect a big mouthed know nothing? \u00a0Apparently it is, for the Republicans, that is. \u00a0Oy. \u00a0Thank you Bernie for your sanity.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/manassascitydemocrats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/12036381_940595862645553_1819625214783510017_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-487\" src=\"http:\/\/manassascitydemocrats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/12036381_940595862645553_1819625214783510017_n-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"12036381_940595862645553_1819625214783510017_n\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/manassascitydemocrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/12036381_940595862645553_1819625214783510017_n-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/manassascitydemocrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/12036381_940595862645553_1819625214783510017_n.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Monday, September 14, Bernie Sanders appeared before 2000-3000 folks at the Manassas Fair Grounds. \u00a0I could not attend but as I understand it, he addressed subjects such as income inequality, racism\/police brutality and respect for the police. \u00a0Earlier in the day, he addressed the students at Liberty University. \u00a0I noticed that he was very honest and straight-forward about his positions. \u00a0His social positions are inconsistent with Liberty University&#8217;s culture&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mmpcdc"],"a3_pvc":{"activated":false,"total_views":0,"today_views":0},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/manassascitydemocrats.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/manassascitydemocrats.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/manassascitydemocrats.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manassascitydemocrats.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manassascitydemocrats.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=486"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/manassascitydemocrats.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":490,"href":"https:\/\/manassascitydemocrats.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486\/revisions\/490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/manassascitydemocrats.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manassascitydemocrats.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manassascitydemocrats.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}