{"id":1104,"date":"2024-08-30T14:34:56","date_gmt":"2024-08-30T14:34:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chopwoodcarrywaterllc.com\/?p=1104"},"modified":"2024-10-09T17:17:48","modified_gmt":"2024-10-09T17:17:48","slug":"man-at-the-crossroads-ftdr-analogy-how-those-who-vote-can-reimagine-federal-government-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chopwoodcarrywaterllc.com\/index.php\/2024\/08\/30\/man-at-the-crossroads-ftdr-analogy-how-those-who-vote-can-reimagine-federal-government-elections\/","title":{"rendered":"Man at the Crossroads &#8211; FTDR Analogy: How those who vote can reimagine federal government elections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>\u2018The most important political office is that of the private citizen.\u2019 \u2013 Louis D. Brandeis <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u2018The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.\u2019 \u2013 H. L. Mencken <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cA week is a long time in politics.\u201d &#8211; Harold Wilson. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u2018All people are born alike \u2013 except Republicans and Democrats.\u2019 \u2013 Groucho Marx<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/chopwoodcarrywaterllc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/crossroads-1.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>continue reading in our PDF file<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&lsquo;The most important political office is that of the private citizen.&rsquo; &ndash; Louis D. Brandeis &lsquo;The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.&rsquo; &ndash; H. L. Mencken &ldquo;A week is &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/chopwoodcarrywaterllc.com\/index.php\/2024\/08\/30\/man-at-the-crossroads-ftdr-analogy-how-those-who-vote-can-reimagine-federal-government-elections\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Man at the Crossroads &#8211; FTDR Analogy: How those who vote can reimagine federal government elections&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chopwoodcarrywaterllc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chopwoodcarrywaterllc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chopwoodcarrywaterllc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chopwoodcarrywaterllc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chopwoodcarrywaterllc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1104"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/chopwoodcarrywaterllc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1104\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1111,"href":"https:\/\/chopwoodcarrywaterllc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1104\/revisions\/1111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chopwoodcarrywaterllc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chopwoodcarrywaterllc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chopwoodcarrywaterllc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}