{"id":309426,"date":"2019-10-07T06:06:03","date_gmt":"2019-10-06T20:06:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=309426"},"modified":"2019-10-07T06:06:03","modified_gmt":"2019-10-06T20:06:03","slug":"first-step-toward-sanity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/first-step-toward-sanity\/","title":{"rendered":"First step toward sanity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Someone should tell our beleaguered president that leadership entails keeping people united during hard times (like the ones he&#8217;s created) where opposing sides can sit down and work things out. His idea of leadership is to pit voters, constituents, families, neighbors against each other because it&#8217;s \u201chis way or no way\u201d pronouncements, which are quite similar to how a dictator becomes a so-called leader. Like Hitler, Mussolini and Tojo, Trump is destined to meet a similar fate if his party doesn&#8217;t demand he curb his vile behavior.\u00a0 That&#8217;s what this nation is all about. JFK said it best: \u201cAsk not what your country can do for you. Ask what you can do for your country.\u201d Trump&#8217;s idea is, \u201cWhat can you do for me, or else!\u201d Such divisive, mean-spirited braying by our president, \u201c&#8217;If I am impeached, there will be a Civil War\u201d&#8217; is not the way to go. We don&#8217;t need a dictator to lead by derisive, divisive, scandal-ridden agendas. Impeachment is the first step to get us back to some sense of sanity.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Herb Stark<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Mooresville, NC<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Someone should tell our beleaguered president that leadership entails keeping people united during hard times&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[6842,1834],"class_list":["post-309426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-letters-to-the-editor","tag-herb-stark","tag-nc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309426","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=309426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309426\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}