{"id":71155,"date":"2019-04-25T05:03:29","date_gmt":"2019-04-25T10:03:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=71155"},"modified":"2019-04-25T05:07:52","modified_gmt":"2019-04-25T10:07:52","slug":"watered-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=71155","title":{"rendered":"Watered Down"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Bernie Sanders wants to\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.burlingtonfreepress.com\/story\/news\/politics\/government\/2019\/04\/23\/bernie-sanders-prison-felon-voting-rights-vermont-2020-presidential-campaign-cnn-town-hall\/3549947002\/\" target=\"_blank\">let felons vote while in prison<\/a>. <br>The point of voting is to choose wise leaders to make sensible laws.\u00a0 The point of restrictions on voting is to ensure the people doing the choosing are, themselves, wise people.\u00a0 Children, the mentally infirm, and felons are, by definition, not wise people.\u00a0 Felons have already demonstrated they\u2019re not willing to follow sensible laws so they no longer get to participate in choosing who makes the laws.\u00a0 This isn\u2019t a new concept \u2013 it\u2019s been the law for thousands of years for the simple reason that it works. <br>Watering down wise peoples\u2019 votes by extending the franchise to unwise people, can only result in decisions that are less wise.\u00a0 And that\u2019s how we get Democrats in office: dumb voters making bad decisions.\u00a0 This can\u2019t end well.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s not intended to. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bernie Sanders wants to\u00a0let felons vote while in prison. The point of voting is to choose wise leaders to make sensible laws.\u00a0 The point of restrictions on voting is to ensure the people doing the choosing are, themselves, wise people.\u00a0 Children, the mentally infirm, and felons are, by definition, not wise people.\u00a0 Felons have already [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,119],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-democrats","category-election-integrity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=71155"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71155\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71156,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71155\/revisions\/71156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}