{"id":2151,"date":"2016-06-05T02:20:28","date_gmt":"2016-06-05T02:20:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tomwsmf.com\/blog\/?p=2151"},"modified":"2016-06-05T02:20:28","modified_gmt":"2016-06-05T02:20:28","slug":"wasted-votes-usa-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tomwsmf.com\/blog\/?p=2151","title":{"rendered":"Wasted Votes, USA #1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Wasted Votes, USA #1<\/b><\/p>\n<p>In the USA we spend a lot of time  slapping ourselves on the back because we have a vote. The system we use to count those votes though is  beyond broken, but we are a nation of habit so we carry on with the damage all the time screaming  about how unbroken and amazing our system is.<\/p>\n<p>The videos on the vote by CGP Grey are  great at opening up the pov to see past our borked system. Please watch, please spread , please please something to end the systemic wreckage that is the USA system.\u00ef\u00bb\u00bf<\/p>\n<div class=\"g-crossposting-att\">\n<div class=\"g-crossposting-att-title\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+TomHiggins\/posts\/F9nj4AcYLZD\" target=\"_blank\">The Problems with First Past the Post Voting Explained<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"g-crossposting-att-img\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+TomHiggins\/posts\/F9nj4AcYLZD\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/3--IpGo_SQkbVolHWjppZzcr6UopPUMwgkx_Blnx519mzxkPbwpSD3MraJosUrJQSSHC9bobXkxOe-GWUxdHNhUx2ww=w506-h284-n\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"g-crossposting-att-txt\">\n<p>Help support videos like this: http:\/\/www.cgpgrey.com\/subbable **CGPGrey T-Shirts for sale!**: http:<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"g-crossposting-backlink\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+TomHiggins\/posts\/F9nj4AcYLZD\" target=\"_blank\">This was posted on Google+<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wasted Votes, USA #1 In the USA we spend a lot of time slapping ourselves on the back because we have a vote. The system we use to count those votes though is beyond broken, but we are a nation of habit so we carry on with the damage all the time screaming about how [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tomwsmf.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tomwsmf.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tomwsmf.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tomwsmf.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tomwsmf.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tomwsmf.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2151\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tomwsmf.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tomwsmf.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tomwsmf.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}