{"id":9507,"date":"2017-01-02T17:35:51","date_gmt":"2017-01-02T21:35:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=9507"},"modified":"2017-01-02T17:35:51","modified_gmt":"2017-01-02T21:35:51","slug":"one-bright-spot-in-the-political-gloom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=9507","title":{"rendered":"One bright spot in the political gloom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/C-cooper-invite.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"1175\" src=\"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/C-cooper-invite.jpg\" alt=\"\"  class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9508\" srcset=\"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/C-cooper-invite.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/C-cooper-invite-255x300.jpg 255w, https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/C-cooper-invite-768x902.jpg 768w, https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/C-cooper-invite-871x1024.jpg 871w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Another small reward for my political work here in the sticks was an invitation to the inauguration of Roy Cooper, the new governor of North Carolina.<\/p>\n<p>Those of you outside the U.S. may not know that, one bright spot during the catastrophic November election was that North Carolina voters, by a narrow margin, threw out the Republican governor and elected a Democrat.<\/p>\n<p>For six years now, North Carolina has been afflicted with a radical right-wing legislature. Clearly the people of North Carolina had become sick of right-wing overreach, and they took it out on Pat McCrory, who served only one term. I think it would be a reasonably safe prediction that American voters will become similarly sick of right-wing overreach at the national level and that the Republican Party will lose the U.S. Senate if not the House of Representatives in the 2018 election. As for Donald Trump, it&#8217;s impossible to imagine him getting a second term. In fact, impeachment seems much more likely.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another small reward for my political work here in the sticks was an invitation to the inauguration of Roy Cooper, the new governor of North Carolina. Those of you outside the U.S. may not know that, one bright spot during the catastrophic November election was that North Carolina voters, by a narrow margin, threw out &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=9507\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;One bright spot in the political gloom&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-political-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9507","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9507"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9507\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9511,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9507\/revisions\/9511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}