{"id":1683,"date":"2023-01-11T05:03:44","date_gmt":"2023-01-11T05:03:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2023\/01\/11\/four-ways-to-vote\/"},"modified":"2023-01-11T05:03:44","modified_gmt":"2023-01-11T05:03:44","slug":"four-ways-to-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2023\/01\/11\/four-ways-to-vote\/","title":{"rendered":"Four Ways to Vote"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">1) There is voting proper, with a ballot at the polling place. It won&#39;t do much if any good except at the local level. And even there it won&#39;t do any good if proper procedures are not followed, something that cannot be taken for granted these days.<br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">2) There is &#39;voting with your feet.&#39; Sick of crime in New York? Sick of the fools with power whose policies insure that there will be crime and ever more crime? Move to Florida.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">3) There is &#39;voting by social cancellation.&#39; Have any of your friends &#39;gone woke&#39;? Politely inform them that their willful self-enstupidation deprives them of the privilege of your friendship. Why should they get the benefit of interaction with someone sane, reasonable, mentally awake, and morally straight?<br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">4) There is &#39;voting with your wallet.&#39; This alone is most effective and for reasons I needn&#39;t state. In second place comes (2), and in third (3). (1) comes in last. <br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">&quot;The first shall be last and the last shall be first&quot; to adapt a scriptural saying.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1) There is voting proper, with a ballot at the polling place. It won&#39;t do much if any good except at the local level. And even there it won&#39;t do any good if proper procedures are not followed, something that cannot be taken for granted these days. 2) There is &#39;voting with your feet.&#39; Sick &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2023\/01\/11\/four-ways-to-vote\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Four Ways to Vote&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-political-tactics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1683"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1683\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}