{"id":811,"date":"2016-10-26T04:49:35","date_gmt":"2016-10-26T04:49:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/penning.us\/Nick2\/?p=811"},"modified":"2016-10-26T04:49:35","modified_gmt":"2016-10-26T04:49:35","slug":"our-democracy-needs-you-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/penning.us\/Nick2\/2016\/10\/26\/our-democracy-needs-you-vote\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Democracy Needs You – Vote!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Widely-respected public figures have spoken out against the fear and doubt being generated by Donald Trump; fear that could cause us to make a calamitous choice in our presidential election on November 8.<\/p>\n

Republican-appointed (by Pres. GHW Bush) former Supreme Court Justice David Souter, four years ago, warned us<\/a>, <\/p>\n

\u201cWhat I worry about is [in a crisis]\u2026 some one person will come forward and say, \u2018Give me total power and I will solve this problem. That is how the Roman Republic fell.”<\/p>\n

“That is the way democracy dies.\u201d <\/p>\n

Former President Jimmy Carter, on October 19 told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution<\/a> that “allegations of potential rigging of U.S. elections, as well as of widespread voter fraud, are baseless, serving only to undermine confidence in our democratic processes and inflame tensions.\u201d<\/p>\n

And former Secretary of State Colin Powell on October 26 told<\/a> the Long Island Association that he will vote for Hillary Clinton. According to a member of that association, Powell \u201cspoke about his [Trump\u2019s] inexperience, he spoke about the messages that he\u2019s [Trump] sending out every day to his supporters, which really paints our country in a negative light across the globe with all our allies.\u201d<\/p>\n

By alleging our system is “rigged,” Trump is tearing down the Constitutional fortress constructed with great care more than two centuries ago.<\/p>\n

Don\u2019t let anyone tell you that your vote won\u2019t count. Our voting system<\/a> is fair and is run by local officials you have chosen, not by a central network that can be shifted in one direction or another. Know that your cast vote for president is one of the most consequential decisions you face every four years. <\/p>\n

And this process is monitored and reported to you by journalists, whose job it is to seek the truth and expose it for you; not to favor one candidate or issue over another. <\/p>\n

Donald Trump would not exist as a national figure, if his statements had not been printed and broadcast by news organizations — known collectively as “the media” — which he continues to decry. Reporting is what journalists do: report facts and investigate people and organizations, so that we, the public, will know the truth.<\/p>\n

Please consider what is at stake, and vote; because our democracy, right now, needs each one of us to stand up for our country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Widely-respected public figures have spoken out against the fear and doubt being generated by Donald Trump; fear that could cause us to make a calamitous choice in our presidential election on November 8. Republican-appointed (by Pres. GHW Bush) former Supreme Court Justice David Souter, four years ago, warned us, \u201cWhat I worry about is [in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/penning.us\/Nick2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/811","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/penning.us\/Nick2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/penning.us\/Nick2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/penning.us\/Nick2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/penning.us\/Nick2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=811"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/penning.us\/Nick2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/811\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":825,"href":"https:\/\/penning.us\/Nick2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/811\/revisions\/825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/penning.us\/Nick2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/penning.us\/Nick2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/penning.us\/Nick2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}