{"id":24744,"date":"2016-02-10T15:45:34","date_gmt":"2016-02-10T23:45:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/?p=24744"},"modified":"2016-02-10T15:45:34","modified_gmt":"2016-02-10T23:45:34","slug":"whats-your-goal-in-the-2016-presidential-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2016\/02\/10\/whats-your-goal-in-the-2016-presidential-election\/","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s your goal in the 2016 presidential election?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Maybe you have some candidate you&#8217;re passionate to support. Or maybe your sole goal this election season is merely to (somehow, against all odds) remain sane until November. Or you simply want to minimize your exposure to the endless media noise. I don&#8217;t know.<\/p>\n<p>But even if you try to tune out electoral politics, I suspect there&#8217;s still <i>something<\/i> you want out of this election above all else. For me (I just realized), my main interest in watching this circus is to see Hillary Clinton take a well-deserved fall from the high-wire of &#8220;inevitability.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>When she tumbled in 2008, the media attributed it less to her own innate, immeasureable horribleness than to Barack Obama&#8217;s sizzling charisma and organizational savvy. They eventually boosted her back up on the high-wire. Now, with her only opponent being an elderly socialist <a href=\"http:\/\/thewilderness.me\/culture-club\/\" target=\"_blank\">with a laughable loser&#8217;s history<\/a>, her fall (should the media allow it) will be entirely on her.<\/p>\n<p>Being that she&#8217;s the scummiest, phoniest, and least charismatic politician since Richard Nixon (and that&#8217;s saying something), I cannot wait to witness her collapse, whether it comes at the hands of Sanders fans or, better yet, the FBI. Given the bunch of jokers and clowns running in 2016, that&#8217;s the best outcome I think this election could bring. I just don&#8217;t know if I want it to happen quickly, say by Super Tuesday, or slowwwwwly, suspensefully, and agonizingly, taking down the entire Clinton dynasty with it. I want this so much I wouldn&#8217;t even care if it meant she got beaten in the general election by that foul authoritarian troll, The Donald. (Shudder. But there it is.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maybe you have some candidate you&#8217;re passionate to support. Or maybe your sole goal this election season is merely to (somehow, against all odds) remain sane until November. Or you simply want to minimize your exposure to the endless media noise. I don&#8217;t know. But even if you try to tune out electoral politics, I suspect there&#8217;s still something you want out of this election above all else. For me (I just realized), my main interest in watching this circus is to see Hillary Clinton take a well-deserved fall from the high-wire of &#8220;inevitability.&#8221; When she tumbled in 2008, the&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2016\/02\/10\/whats-your-goal-in-the-2016-presidential-election\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">What&#8217;s your goal in the 2016 presidential election?<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poly-ticks","ratio-natural","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24744","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24744"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24744\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}