{"id":296,"date":"2014-08-04T14:11:10","date_gmt":"2014-08-04T20:11:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/walz-chojnacki.us\/Pensees\/?p=296"},"modified":"2014-08-04T14:11:10","modified_gmt":"2014-08-04T20:11:10","slug":"sick-of-government-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.walz-chojnacki.us\/Pensees\/sick-of-government-vote\/","title":{"rendered":"Sick of Government? Vote!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A lot of people, I fear, are inclined to stay home at election time because they are discontented with the way\u00c2\u00a0 government is operating, particularly at the Congressional level.<\/p>\n<p>Not to be harsh, but one reason government is so dysfunctional is that too many people stayed at home at election time in November 2010.<\/p>\n<p>A couple of important consequences of that, in Wisconsin and many other states, are:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>our legislature is dominated by ALEC toadies, who<\/li>\n<li>redrew the district voters in such a way that the majority is represented by minority elected officials. That is, while Democrats won the popular vote in Wisconsin, our congressional delegation is 5-3 Republican.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>So we have a government that is unresponsive to majority rule, and has less and less incentive to strive for compromise policy. Consequently we frequently have NO policy.<\/p>\n<p>The more people vote, the better government is. Period.<\/p>\n<p>So&#8230;<\/p>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Plan To VOTE!!!<\/span><\/h1>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not to be harsh, but one reason government is so dysfunctional is that too many people stayed at home at election time in November 2010.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","cat-1-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.walz-chojnacki.us\/Pensees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.walz-chojnacki.us\/Pensees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.walz-chojnacki.us\/Pensees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.walz-chojnacki.us\/Pensees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.walz-chojnacki.us\/Pensees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=296"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.walz-chojnacki.us\/Pensees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":297,"href":"https:\/\/www.walz-chojnacki.us\/Pensees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296\/revisions\/297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.walz-chojnacki.us\/Pensees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.walz-chojnacki.us\/Pensees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.walz-chojnacki.us\/Pensees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}