{"id":327,"date":"2011-12-16T16:15:11","date_gmt":"2011-12-16T16:15:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/?p=327"},"modified":"2011-12-16T16:15:11","modified_gmt":"2011-12-16T16:15:11","slug":"keep-your-filthy-votes-to-yourself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2011\/12\/16\/keep-your-filthy-votes-to-yourself\/","title":{"rendered":"Keep your filthy votes to yourself!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Direct elections: A threat to America!<br \/>\nWhy are Mitch McConnell and the rest of the GOP so terrified of a national popular vote?<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/2011\/12\/16\/direct_elections_a_threat_to_america\/singleton\/\">http:\/\/www.salon.com\/2011\/12\/16\/direct_elections_a_threat_to_america\/singleton\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>An interesting read for those of us who give a damn about democracy.  In addition to Gerrymandering, another proven way to make more votes count for your side is to keep voters from voting for the other side.  Having read the article, though, I still remain convinced that my desire to create a substantial poll tax (<a href=\"http:\/\/sol-system.com\/koxenrider\/bok\/PollTax.html\">http:\/\/sol-system.com\/koxenrider\/bok\/PollTax.html<\/a>) is still worth pursuing because there are too many idiot voters on all sides and make their election decision based on sheeple-targeted lies.  I believe (perhaps wrongly) that that a more educated electorate (which naturally means restricting those who can vote, since our population is full of morons who are happy they are ignorant (including most of our Presidential candidates!)) would lead to a better government since the voters would be less likely to vote for people who are clearly pathological liars (which is all our current system attracts (well, corrupt pathological liars, that is)).<\/p>\n<p>However, if we are going to stick with our idiotic voting system where all votes are created equal, then efforts like those mentioned in the article should be aggressively combated.  It flabbergasts me that we have elected officials happy to go publicly on-record promoting things in direct violation of our Constitution, but I guess since so many have been so successful for so long, it is clear the sheeple won&#8217;t hold them accountable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Direct elections: A threat to America! Why are Mitch McConnell and the rest of the GOP so terrified of a national popular vote? http:\/\/www.salon.com\/2011\/12\/16\/direct_elections_a_threat_to_america\/singleton\/ An interesting read for those of us who give a damn about democracy. In addition to Gerrymandering, another proven way to make more votes count for your side is to keep &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2011\/12\/16\/keep-your-filthy-votes-to-yourself\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Keep your filthy votes to yourself!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,3,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-law","category-politics","category-society"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=327"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":328,"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327\/revisions\/328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}