{"id":34135,"date":"2019-10-21T12:47:58","date_gmt":"2019-10-21T11:47:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/listenagain.org\/?p=34135"},"modified":"2019-10-21T13:29:51","modified_gmt":"2019-10-21T12:29:51","slug":"a-to-z-of-historical-blunders-episdode-22","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/?p=34135","title":{"rendered":"A to Z of Historical Blunders: Episdode 22"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mixcloud.com\/widget\/iframe\/?hide_cover=1&amp;feed=%2Fnearfm%2Fa-to-z-of-historical-blunders-the-vagaries-of-voting%2F\" width=\"100%\" height=\"120\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>The vagaries of voting<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Welcome to the A to Z of Historical Blunders, the show that reminds us about the dangers of history repeating itself.<\/p>\n<p>Voting is a powerful thing, the results of which exercise us endlessly, as in the cases of Brexit and the election of President Trump. Twenty-six percent of Britain\u2019s population voted to leave the European Union in 2016. That same year, little more than a quarter of the voting-eligible population in the United States chose Donald Trump as President.<\/p>\n<p>Enacting laws that prevent or discourage citizens from voting creates justified seething resentment and civil unrest. Polarising communities, and using peoples\u2019 voting rights as a bargaining chip is bordering on the unforgivable.<\/p>\n<p>The article on which this episode is based can be <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oldfilibuster.com\/the-vagaries-of-voting.html\">read here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The vagaries of voting Welcome to the A to Z of Historical Blunders, the show that reminds us about the dangers of history repeating itself. Voting is a powerful thing, the results of which exercise us endlessly, as in the cases of Brexit and the election of President Trump. Twenty-six percent of Britain\u2019s population voted [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":34136,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10362],"tags":[10363,16151,16153,16152,16149,16150],"class_list":["post-34135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-a-to-z-of-historical-blunders","tag-berni-dwan","tag-britains-population-voted","tag-donald-trump-as-president","tag-european-union-in-2016","tag-voting","tag-voting-eligible-population"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34135"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34135\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34137,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34135\/revisions\/34137"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/34136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}