It\u2019s Primary Election Day in Connecticut!\r\n
I am generally a defender of the American Two-Party System, not because I am unaware of its drawbacks and flaws, but because I don\u2019t think they are worse than the flaws of multi-Party systems, such as those in England or Germany or Israel. The whole business of participatory self-government is going to be a kludge, one way or the other. Frankly, the search for the One Simple Trick to Make Democracy Work is the search for participatory self-government in which people don\u2019t have to participate much, or govern themselves much, which is pretty much the opposite of the point.\r\n
But I will say this: voting in every Party Primary is just about the easiest and cheapest way to influence how your state is governed, long-term. There are a few more effective ways, but they mostly cost a little bit of money (subscribing to a local newspaper, f\u2019r\u2019ex) or a good deal of time.\r\n
Voting in a Primary election is more important than voting in a General election, usually. And that thing where people say if you don\u2019t vote, you can\u2019t complain? It\u2019s obviously not true, but what is true is this: voting is more useful than complaining, and voting in a Primary election is a lot<\/i> more useful than complaining, and also a lot less work.\r\n
Tolerabimus quod tolerare debemus,<\/I>
-Vardibidian.\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In Which Your Humble Blogger refrains from quoting Whitman, but just barely.","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[204,205],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-puff-piece"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20805","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=20805"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20805\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20808,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20805\/revisions\/20808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}