{"id":7909,"date":"2015-09-26T08:50:31","date_gmt":"2015-09-26T15:50:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/?p=7909"},"modified":"2015-09-25T15:50:55","modified_gmt":"2015-09-25T22:50:55","slug":"one-debate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/2015\/09\/one-debate\/","title":{"rendered":"One Debate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src=\"http:\/\/assets.nydailynews.com\/polopoly_fs\/1.2209833!\/img\/httpImage\/image.jpg_gen\/derivatives\/article_635\/fired5n-1-web.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=200 class=\"alignright\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It is quite a phenomenon that Carly Fiorina jousted herself to #2 with just <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/09\/26\/us\/politics\/carly-fiorina-builds-off-successful-gop-debate-performance.html?_r=0\">one debate<\/a>.  Overall, this election is becoming more about entertainment.<\/p>\n<p>That brings the uncomfortable question of how Americans choose their president.  Seriously, if Donald Trump is the front-runner, for any party, the voters are clearly are not choosing a leader.  They want someone who is &#8220;on their side&#8221; of the issues, no matter how irrational the &#8220;side&#8221; is.<\/p>\n<p>When I was on a 40&#8217;ish minute long taxi ride, the driver opined that he will vote for any candidate that mandates $1000 cash distribution to all &#8220;poor&#8221; citizens.  &#8220;Because <em>we<\/em> need money,&#8221; he said.  &#8220;Isn&#8217;t that what the government is supposed to do?  Help me?&#8221;  He did not care about inflation, quantity easing, economic policies, 99%, etc.  Those are just big words.  All he needed\/wanted was an extra $1000.  Simple.  If a politician is smart, he or she will fan sufficient emotional fire with some simple messages and get enough votes.  Isn&#8217;t that what Donald Trump did?<\/p>\n<p>Hey, 2016 may see the first female president for the US.  That&#8217;s probably a good enough reason to design a new money for this country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is quite a phenomenon that Carly Fiorina jousted herself to #2 with just one debate. Overall, this election is becoming more about entertainment. That brings the uncomfortable question of how Americans choose their president. Seriously, if Donald Trump is &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/2015\/09\/one-debate\/\">Continue reading <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":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7909"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7909"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7909\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7915,"href":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7909\/revisions\/7915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}