{"id":11156,"date":"2008-05-08T15:30:00","date_gmt":"2008-05-08T19:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/vardibidian\/2008\/05\/08\/11156.html"},"modified":"2018-03-13T18:48:39","modified_gmt":"2018-03-13T23:48:39","slug":"party-time-for-everybody","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/2008\/05\/08\/party-time-for-everybody\/","title":{"rendered":"Party time for everybody!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Here&#8217;s an idea for one of those Internet thingies for someone to do, someone who isn&#8217;t lazy or busy or anything. Take ten years or so of legislation that had fairly close votes in the House (easily obtainable from <a href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/\">Thomas<\/a>) and make a quiz where the quizee reads the (CRS) summary of the bill and guesses which Party (mostly) supported it. I suspect that nearly everybody would figure it out nearly every time. Bills that protect labor, the environment, the poor, non-white people, none-straight people, the ill-educated and foreigners would be supported by Democrats, and bills that protect property rights, management, owners, and religious racial or sexual majorities would be supported by Republicans, right?<br \/>\n<p>I really would be curious to know how people would do on a quiz like that. I wonder if I would do as well as I think I would.<br \/>\n<p>The point that I would be trying to make, of course, is that there are political parties for a reason, that they espouse different philosophies of government, and that it is in fact perfectly reasonable to vote for the Party, not just the candidate. On the other hand, if I&#8217;m wrong, and most people can&#8217;t differentiate the Parties on legislation, then that&#8217;s a useful thing to know, too, isn&#8217;t it?<br \/>\n<p><I>Tolerabimus quod tolerare debemus<\/I>,<br>-Vardibidian.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Which Your Humble Blogger has an idea and is too lazy to implement it. There&#8217;s a surprise for you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[204],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11156"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11156\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18361,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11156\/revisions\/18361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}