{"id":2455503,"date":"2020-03-08T17:52:00","date_gmt":"2020-03-08T23:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/news\/when-everybody-knew-their-role\/"},"modified":"2020-03-09T08:45:37","modified_gmt":"2020-03-09T14:45:37","slug":"when-everybody-knew-their-role","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/local-news\/when-everybody-knew-their-role\/","title":{"rendered":"When everybody knew their role"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/02\/facebook-thumbnail-1200.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">A recent letter to the editor proposes that we should change voting in America from \u201cone person, one vote\u201d to more like \u201cone acre, one vote.\u201d Under that theory, Hillary Clinton\u2019s lead of 2 million to 3 million votes should be ignored because most came from big cities. And maybe even worse: The voters were actually Democrats. Democrats \u201cshould not speak for the rest of the country.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Heck, why even have elections? Why don\u2019t we just have Republicans take all the political jobs? Winner take all. Turn the clock back to the 1940s; maybe the 1840s. Women don\u2019t really want to work outside the house, or even vote. Put kids to work as soon as they are strong enough. 80-hour work weeks. Seven days a week. Elementary education for some. Infected food. Blacks back to the plantations. Average life spans for men about 40 years, women about 20 years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">\u201cMake American great, again\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND Letter Name\">Patrick Hunter<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND Letter Title\">Carbondale<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/opinion\/letters-to-the-editor\/when-everybody-knew-their-role\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: The Aspen Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A recent letter to the editor proposes that we should change voting in America from \u201cone person, one vote\u201d to more like \u201cone acre, one vote.\u201d Under that theory, Hillary Clinton\u2019s lead of 2 million to 3 million votes should be ignored because most came from big cities. And maybe even worse: The voters were [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2455503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-local-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-18 11:45:27","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSPN The Valley&#039;s Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2455503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2455503"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2455503\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2455524,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2455503\/revisions\/2455524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2455503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2455503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2455503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}