{"id":54093,"date":"2017-02-20T09:22:21","date_gmt":"2017-02-20T09:22:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=54093"},"modified":"2017-02-20T09:22:21","modified_gmt":"2017-02-20T09:22:21","slug":"pro-and-con-or-squished-my-follow-up-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=54093","title":{"rendered":"Pro and Con, or squished? my follow-up post"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[ by Charles Cameron &#8212; concerted: in which a single voice should be heard in contrast with others ]<br \/>\n.<\/p>\n<p>Having said all that I did about bridge-building, and respectfully hearing and annotatimg both sides in a highly divisive environment, I have another issue, another question.<\/p>\n<p>When is it time for the peace-maker to take a side?<\/p>\n<p>What if <strong>Jay Rosen<\/strong> is correct in <a href=\"http:\/\/pressthink.org\/2017\/02\/notes-unbuilding-key-part-presidency\/\">A few notes on unbuilding a key part of the presidency<\/a>?  Should we be terrified at the very idea of one man having control of the nuclear arsenal?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Since the start of the Cold War some 70 years ago, Americans have been aware of a crazy thing about the holder of the Presidency. That person could blow up the world. The possibility of nuclear annihilation changed the institution by introducing new psychological facts to the relationship between the American people and the occupant of the White House. And, we should add, between the publics of other nations and the American President. For this was a terrible power to invest in one man.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And taking things a step further &#8212; is the world at serious risk of major nuclear war with <strong>Donald Trump<\/strong> in the Presidency? If so, should the peace-makers and bridge-makers take issue with him? And how? With what stratagems? And in what tone of voice?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ by Charles Cameron &#8212; concerted: in which a single voice should be heard in contrast with others ] . Having said all that I did about bridge-building, and respectfully hearing and annotatimg both sides in a highly divisive environment, I have another issue, another question. When is it time for the peace-maker to take [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[526,90,1460,779,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-charles-cameron","category-nuclear","category-potus","category-question","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54093","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54093"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54093\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54103,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54093\/revisions\/54103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}