{"id":148,"date":"2025-03-10T13:06:39","date_gmt":"2025-03-10T20:06:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.franklinleadership.com\/blog\/?p=148"},"modified":"2025-03-10T13:06:39","modified_gmt":"2025-03-10T20:06:39","slug":"democrats-and-the-state-of-the-union","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.franklinleadership.com\/blog\/democrats-and-the-state-of-the-union\/","title":{"rendered":"Democrats and the State of the Union"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As shameful as the behavior of the Democratic members was as they reacted in unison at the president&#8217;s very fine report &#8211;they cannot be blamed. <br \/><br \/>They had been threatened by their &#8220;powers that be&#8221; to protest in such an inappropriate way, or be subjected to being ostracized by their organization&#8217;s leadership. They knew that it had become the party&#8217;s protocol as they had experienced the treatment of others who had spoken up concerning President Biden&#8217;s mental deterioration. <br \/><br \/>They had been told that not one word should be shared or discussed and that they should confront members who did not follow the party&#8217;s direction. <br \/><br \/>Why that has become the norm will be be covered in the next blog.<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As shameful as the behavior of the Democratic members was as they reacted in unison at the president&#8217;s very fine report &#8211;they cannot be blamed. They had been threatened by their &#8220;powers that be&#8221; to protest in such an inappropriate way, or be subjected to being ostracized by their organization&#8217;s leadership. They knew that it &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.franklinleadership.com\/blog\/democrats-and-the-state-of-the-union\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Democrats and the State of the Union<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.franklinleadership.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.franklinleadership.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.franklinleadership.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.franklinleadership.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.franklinleadership.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.franklinleadership.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":151,"href":"https:\/\/www.franklinleadership.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148\/revisions\/151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.franklinleadership.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.franklinleadership.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.franklinleadership.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}