{"id":161,"date":"2007-09-28T11:55:40","date_gmt":"2007-09-28T16:55:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.randomideas.net\/?p=161"},"modified":"2007-09-28T11:55:40","modified_gmt":"2007-09-28T16:55:40","slug":"this-is-how-the-legislature-votes-in-texas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/randomideas.net\/?p=161","title":{"rendered":"This is how the legislature votes in Texas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not usually one to copy links from Digg, but this is a deeply disturbing failure of democracy:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Texas Legislation\" width=\"625\" height=\"469\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/eG6X-xtVask?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Even worse than multiple voting is the fact that most of those seats are empty to begin with. Making the law is a very important job. The least politicians can do is show up to work.<\/p>\n<p>Society in general disgusts me, but the elite is the worst by far. It&#8217;s as if being scum is a prerequisite to gaining power.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not usually one to copy links from Digg, but this is a deeply disturbing failure of democracy: Even worse than multiple voting is the fact that most of those seats are empty to begin with. Making the law is a very important job. The least politicians can do is show up to work. Society [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/randomideas.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/randomideas.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/randomideas.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/randomideas.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/randomideas.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/randomideas.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/randomideas.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/randomideas.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/randomideas.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}