{"id":5451,"date":"2011-03-20T23:47:49","date_gmt":"2011-03-20T23:47:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=5451"},"modified":"2011-03-20T23:47:49","modified_gmt":"2011-03-20T23:47:49","slug":"no-really-democracy-doesnt-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=5451","title":{"rendered":"No, Really &#8211; Democracy Doesn&#8217;t Work"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I wrote recently about how <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=5434\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #800000\">Montana (USA)&#160;had rejected a bill<\/a> to make texting while driving illegal. It&#8217;s impossible to fathom the logic used to come to the effective conclusion that texting while driving is OK.<\/p>\n<p>Arizona <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.azcentral.com\/arizonarepublic\/local\/articles\/2011\/03\/20\/20110320driving-safety-bills.html\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #800000\">seems to experiencing a similar problem<\/a>. They have three bills under consideration:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>banning texting while driving<\/li>\n<li>booster seats for children under 8 mandatory<\/li>\n<li>transporting children in open beds of trucks prohibited<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>You&#8217;d think logic and commonsense would make these a foregone conclusion, wouldn&#8217;t you? Well, the votes are surprisingly close and there is a lot of debate on that last one. They are not foregone conclusions at all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wrote recently about how Montana (USA)&#160;had rejected a bill to make texting while driving illegal. It&#8217;s impossible to fathom the logic used to come to the effective conclusion that texting while driving is OK. Arizona seems to experiencing a similar problem. They have three bills under consideration: banning texting while driving booster seats for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[80,101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adi-related","category-world-related"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5451","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5451"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5451\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}