{"id":9009,"date":"2016-03-12T17:22:10","date_gmt":"2016-03-12T22:22:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theglobalconversation.com\/blog\/?p=9009"},"modified":"2016-03-12T17:51:02","modified_gmt":"2016-03-12T22:51:02","slug":"looking-at-todays-realityis-this-really-what-wehave-come-to","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theglobalconversation.com\/blog\/?p=9009","title":{"rendered":"<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Looking at Today&#8217;s Reality:<BR><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">IS THIS REALLY AND TRULY<BR>WHAT WE HAVE COME TO?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We have a candidate for president of the United States who says of a protestor at one of his campaign events, &#8220;I&#8217;d like to punch him in the face.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>We have a candidate for president who says of protestors at his events, &#8220;I love the old days &#8212; you know what they used to do to guys like that when they were in a place like this? They&#8217;d be carried out on a stretcher, folks.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>We have a candidate for president of the United States who told one of his audiences, &#8220;If you see somebody getting ready to throw a tomato, knock the crap out of them, would you? Seriously. OK? Just knock the hell &#8212; I promise you, I will pay for the legal fees.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Is there any hope? Are we really nothing more than a species of sentient beings run amok, blowing up H-bombs under the ground to prove our invincibility, ending criminals&#8217; lives by injection to demonstrate our righteousness, allowing hundreds of children to die of starvation every hour as we defend a global economy that benefits one-tenth of the planet\u2019s population?<\/p>\n<p>Have we so lost our collective mind as to think that the way to stop gun violence is for everybody in the world to carry a gun?<\/p>\n<p>Have we so lost our collective will as to find no way to stop the wars that create refugee crises rendering millions homeless?<\/p>\n<p>Have we so lost our collective morals as to find it actually preferable for divisiveness, rudeness, insults and tasteless verbal bullying to become the hallmark of political leadership?<\/p>\n<p>Is this what we have come to? Gun-toting, fist-pumping, verbal-bashing, jaw-jutting, loud-mouthed intimidators and strong-armed tyrants daring anyone to stand up for what is gentle, peaceful, and\u2014God forbid\u2014loving?<\/p>\n<p>Just asking here.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We have a candidate for president of the United States who says of a protestor at one of his campaign events, &#8220;I&#8217;d like to punch him in the face.&#8221; We have a candidate for president who says of protestors at his events, &#8220;I love the old days &#8212; you know what they used to do [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[161],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-headline"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theglobalconversation.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9009","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theglobalconversation.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theglobalconversation.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theglobalconversation.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theglobalconversation.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9009"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.theglobalconversation.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9009\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9017,"href":"https:\/\/www.theglobalconversation.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9009\/revisions\/9017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theglobalconversation.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theglobalconversation.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theglobalconversation.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}