{"id":7631,"date":"2011-11-26T13:16:05","date_gmt":"2011-11-26T19:16:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davidmcelroy.org\/?p=7631"},"modified":"2020-11-03T15:52:04","modified_gmt":"2020-11-03T21:52:04","slug":"arent-you-thankful-for-the-right-to-vote-before-they-take-your-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/?p=7631","title":{"rendered":"Aren&#8217;t you thankful for the right to vote before they take your money?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/The-right-to-vote.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7632\" title=\"The right to vote\" src=\"http:\/\/www.davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/The-right-to-vote.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"460\" height=\"475\" srcset=\"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/The-right-to-vote.gif 650w, https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/The-right-to-vote-290x300.gif 290w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 460px) 100vw, 460px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>One of the common rallying cries you hear among people at Occupy Wall Street is, &#8220;This is what democracy looks like!&#8221; If you understand what democracy ultimately means, that should scare you.<\/p>\n<p>As\u00a0Erik\u00a0von\u00a0Kuehnelt-Leddihn said, &#8220;Fifty-one percent of a nation can establish a totalitarian regime, suppress minorities and still remain democratic.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Freedom is what matters, not whether the majority gets to make up rules for the rest of the population. Remember that <a title=\"You\u2019ve been lied to: Freedom and democracy don\u2019t mean same things\" href=\"http:\/\/www.davidmcelroy.org\/?p=3414\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">freedom and democracy aren&#8217;t the same thing<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the common rallying cries you hear among people at Occupy Wall Street is, &#8220;This is what democracy looks like!&#8221; If you understand what democracy ultimately means, that should scare you. As\u00a0Erik\u00a0von\u00a0Kuehnelt-Leddihn said, &#8220;Fifty-one percent of a nation can establish a totalitarian regime, suppress minorities and still remain democratic.&#8221; Freedom is what matters, not <a href=\"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/?p=7631\" class=\"more-link\">Keep Reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-7631","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1x9iR-1Z5","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7631","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7631"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7631\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32901,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7631\/revisions\/32901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}