{"id":2277,"date":"2010-01-31T18:33:31","date_gmt":"2010-01-31T23:33:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/?p=2277"},"modified":"2010-01-31T18:34:48","modified_gmt":"2010-01-31T23:34:48","slug":"vote-less","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/2010\/01\/31\/vote-less\/","title":{"rendered":"Vote Less"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Matthew Yglesias <a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/matthewyglesias\/~3\/jEqA8ehJPk0\/for-less-voting.php\">thinks<\/a> we should have fewer elections in the U.S.\u00a0 To wit:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Consider, for example, America\u2019s staggering quantity of elected officials. If you live in Toronto, you vote for a member of the Toronto City Council, you vote for a member of the Ontario Parliament, and you vote for a member of the Canadian Parliament.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Werd!\u00a0 If civic republicanism is to have any chance in the United States where we actually expect citizens to be informed about politics, then we have to give them a fair shot.\u00a0 California, by contrast, treats it&#8217;s citizens like the closet organizing guy from Saturday Night Live.\u00a0 Instead of dirt, we have propositions and instead of water, we have elections for Insurance Commissioner!<\/p>\n<p><object type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" data=\"http:\/\/widgets.nbc.com\/o\/4727a250e66f9723\/4b661386a1f55ae5\/4741e3c5156499a7\/716c6256\/-cpid\/80e8244bee6f5947\" id=\"W4727a250e66f97234b661386a1f55ae5\" width=\"384\" height=\"283\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/widgets.nbc.com\/o\/4727a250e66f9723\/4b661386a1f55ae5\/4741e3c5156499a7\/716c6256\/-cpid\/80e8244bee6f5947\" \/><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\" \/><param name=\"allowNetworking\" value=\"all\" \/><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Matthew Yglesias thinks we should have fewer elections in the U.S.\u00a0 To wit: Consider, for example, America\u2019s staggering quantity of elected officials. If you live in Toronto, you vote for a member of the Toronto City Council, you vote for a member of the Ontario Parliament, and you vote for a member of the Canadian [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":129,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/129"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2277"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2277\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2279,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2277\/revisions\/2279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}