{"id":36733,"date":"2025-08-12T10:04:47","date_gmt":"2025-08-12T15:04:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=36733"},"modified":"2025-08-14T08:19:51","modified_gmt":"2025-08-14T13:19:51","slug":"vote-today-nobody-much-else-is-bothering-to","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=36733","title":{"rendered":"Vote today, nobody much else is bothering to&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=36726\">Last post<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=36739\">Next post<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/54715576780_4c779ee9d0.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Three hours after the polls open in my usually conscientious precinct Claudia and I strolled over to cast our votes. We were votes 15 and 16 respectively. No one came in to vote the first hour or hour and a half at all. There were already 17 absentee votes BUT&#8230;..<\/p>\n<p>As I told the volunteers manning the registration this is what happens when you don&#8217;t have a daily paper anymore followed by my thanks for the long day&#8217;s service that they will be giving the community.<\/p>\n<p>Considering how down I felt listening to PBS News Hours coverage of the vile treatment of the people our system has put in a vice to keep them both marginally paid and fearful of removal despite all the cheap food and housing they help provide America I&#8217;m feeling hopeful, notwithstanding today&#8217;s civic embarrassment at the polls. Maybe it was the tortured dream I had before waking this morning. Its a garden variety of dream. I was trapped trying to find my way out of a vast, confusing Mall of America Maze. A Greek Oracle would probably tell me the same thing as a Freudian. I was grappling with how to help America &#8220;straighten up and fly right&#8221; as its Commander-in-Chief aims his bloated gassy body at our Democracy in a jack booted reprise of 9-11.<\/p>\n<p>I think writing some recent blog posts also helped clear my mind. I&#8217;m not finished. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last post Next post Three hours after the polls open in my usually conscientious precinct Claudia and I strolled over to cast our votes&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,47,24,127,165],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36733"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36733"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36733\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36741,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36733\/revisions\/36741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}