{"id":50745,"date":"2022-03-01T03:40:29","date_gmt":"2022-03-01T03:40:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=50745"},"modified":"2022-03-01T03:42:48","modified_gmt":"2022-03-01T03:42:48","slug":"ceding-power-to-the-few","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=50745","title":{"rendered":"Ceding power to the few"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap\">Good job, Texas voters \u2014 or should I say \u201cnon-voters.\u201d You appear headed to a new level of apathy, laced with ignorance.<\/p>\n<p>The word we\u2019re getting is that Primary Election Day 2022 is going to conclude after 7 p.m. with a single-digit turnout among Texas Republicans and Democrats. You know what that means, I am sure. I\u2019ll remind those who need reminding what it means to me.<\/p>\n<p>It means that rather than taking these important decisions seriously and taking care of issues by ourselves, many of us are going to leave those decisions to those they don\u2019t know. Those who might harbor vastly different political philosophies than you do.<\/p>\n<p>I long have said that good government works best when more of us take part in nominating and electing those who we deem fit to represent our interests in government. It works less well when we leave those decisions up to others.<\/p>\n<p>To borrow a phrase from the Marine Corps, those of us who vote in these elections are \u201cthe few and the proud.\u201d That\u2019s fine if you are recruiting men and women to fight our battles; it\u2019s not fine if we leave these decisions to someone else.<\/p>\n<p>This is Round One of the 2022 election season. The Main Event will occur in November. That won\u2019t produce any great shakes, either.<\/p>\n<p>Abysmal, man. Just abysmal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\" style=\"text-align: right;\"><a href=\"mailto:johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com\">johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good job, Texas voters \u2014 or should I say \u201cnon-voters.\u201d You appear headed to a new level of apathy, laced with ignorance. The word we\u2019re getting is that Primary Election Day 2022 is going to conclude after 7 p.m. with a single-digit turnout among Texas Republicans and Democrats. You know what that means, I am &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=50745\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Ceding power to the few<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[4603,4622,5137],"class_list":["post-50745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-state-news","tag-texas-democrats","tag-texas-gop","tag-voter-turnout"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50745","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50745"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50745\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50746,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50745\/revisions\/50746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}