{"id":62303,"date":"2012-11-07T09:40:13","date_gmt":"2012-11-07T14:40:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/?p=62303"},"modified":"2012-11-07T09:40:42","modified_gmt":"2012-11-07T14:40:42","slug":"message-from-astsrodem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/daily-astrology\/message-from-astsrodem\/","title":{"rendered":"Message from Astrodem"},"content":{"rendered":"

Astrodem — a pen name because he works as a political consultant in D.C. — is one of the astrologers I worked with on the Mercury retrograde election story. He posted this to his Facebook page last night.<\/em><\/p>\n

I cannot tell you how relieved I am that this election did not turn into a 2000-style fiasco with a contested outcome in the presidential race. This election had the strong potential to go in that direction. For most of the past two years, it looked like it was being set up to go in precisely that direction. And when historians tell the story of this election, they will be missing a huge part of that story if they fail to call attention to this plainly evident potential.<\/p>\n

During that hour last night when the Romney campaign was refusing to concede, when Karl Rove was contesting Fox News’ electoral math for Ohio, and when Donald Trump was calling for revolution, we caught a glimpse of just how much American self-government depends upon the consent and legitimation of the minority, the opposition, the losing party. For a brief time, the major institutional leaders on the right appeared prepared to withhold that consent. Luckily, their better angels prevailed. <\/p>\n

When thinking about what happened last night, understand that this all could have gone very differently. We are truly blessed as a nation that it didn’t.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Astrodem — a pen name because he works as a political consultant in D.C. — is one of the astrologers I worked with on the Mercury retrograde election story. He posted this to his Facebook page last night. I cannot tell you how relieved I am that this election did not turn into a 2000-style … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"generate_page_header":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62303"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62303\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}