{"id":40225,"date":"2018-11-07T08:51:00","date_gmt":"2018-11-07T13:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=40225"},"modified":"2018-11-07T08:51:00","modified_gmt":"2018-11-07T13:51:00","slug":"how-do-we-keep-getting-dragged-into-this-electoral-spectator-sport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=40225","title":{"rendered":"How do we keep getting dragged into this electoral spectator sport?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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How do we keep getting dragged into this electoral spectator sport?<\/a><\/h3>\n

Ah, elections\u2026<\/p>\n

Little more than a bare-knuckle boxing match. If you were to suddenly catch a glimpse of such a fight, you would see real blood, real punches, swollen lips, black eyes, and a final knockout.<\/p>\n

It looks like a real spontaneous fight. But the match was planned, set up, with rules and parameters.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s an election. Except that it is shoved in all of our faces, while they lie and tell us it wasn\u2019t a planned fight.<\/p>\n

Not interested in seeing the blood and gore? Not interested in watching two people beat each other to a pulp? Well, you can turn off the boxing match, but good luck avoiding election coverage.<\/p>\n

There wouldn\u2019t be anything riding on the match if we weren\u2019t all convinced to place bets on it. Now it matters. We\u2019ve put down our wagers, we\u2019ve added skin to the game, and now we care.<\/p>\n

Some of what we have riding on the election is psychological. We have staked out a position, and right or wrong, and we want our side to win.<\/p>\n

Somehow we think the majority will vindicate out beleifs, and make us feel more right\u2026 even if the last election did the opposite.<\/p>\n

Ironically, an online poll<\/a> shows that just 51% of Americans have faith in democracy. The slimmest majority\u2026 all that is required to maintain power over the minority.<\/p>\n

Not discussed enough is the actual money industries have riding on the elections. Which contractors will be enriched with federal dollars? The military contractors? Those peddling carbon credits?<\/p>\n

Will more money go to ICE or the EPA? Will workers be hired for federal prisons, or the IRS?<\/p>\n

But these are all manufactured issues.<\/p>\n

\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

How do we keep getting dragged into this electoral spectator sport? Ah, elections\u2026 Little more than a bare-knuckle boxing match. If you were to suddenly catch a glimpse of such a fight, you would see real blood, real punches, swollen lips, black eyes, and a final knockout. It looks like a real spontaneous fight. But […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[253,379,16497,15276,858],"class_list":["post-40225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-elections","tag-government","tag-joe-jarvis","tag-the-daily-bell","tag-voting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40225"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40225\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40226,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40225\/revisions\/40226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}