{"id":1392,"date":"2004-10-13T13:02:21","date_gmt":"2004-10-13T20:02:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/uncategorized\/gloria-steinem-talks-democracy\/"},"modified":"2004-10-13T13:02:21","modified_gmt":"2004-10-13T20:02:21","slug":"gloria-steinem-talks-democracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/dump-duhbya\/gloria-steinem-talks-democracy\/","title":{"rendered":"Gloria Steinem talks democracy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Steinem talks democracy - Daily Lobo - News\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dailylobo.com\/news\/2004\/10\/13\/News\/Steinem.Talks.Democracy-751564.shtml\">Steinem talks democracy &#8211; Daily Lobo &#8211; News<\/a> By Matthew Chavez<\/p>\n<p>America is controlled by the ultra-right, which represents one-third of the population, and is effectively rallied by the National Rifle Association and Christian fundamentalist groups, she said.<\/p>\n<p><b>&#8220;I think of them as the people our European ancestors came here to escape,&#8221; she said.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>While 90 percent of conservatives vote regularly, less than 60 percent of centrists and liberals turn out to the polls, she said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;That is the problem,&#8221; she said. &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If (single) women would have voted in the same proportion as married women in the last election, we would have had such a huge margin against Bush that even shenanigans wouldn&#8217;t have been able to fix it,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Steinem talks democracy &#8211; Daily Lobo &#8211; News By Matthew Chavez America is controlled by the ultra-right, which represents one-third of the population, and is effectively rallied by the National Rifle Association and Christian fundamentalist groups, she said. &#8220;I think of them as the people our European ancestors came here to escape,&#8221; she said. While &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/dump-duhbya\/gloria-steinem-talks-democracy\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Gloria Steinem talks democracy<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dump-duhbya"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1392","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1392"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1392\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}